December 2011
Tomorrow: At 9:25 I am catching a train to St. Pancras and then running across the street to King’s Cross to get the 11:00 to Edinburgh where I will then see many interesting things.
Monday: Back to Canterbury via London, get back a bit before midnight.
Tuesday: Packing insanity.
Wednesday: Train to hotel near Heathrow, spend night watching BBC: Dr. Who, Merlin, etc.
Thursday: Fly...
“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us,...”
– Audre Lorde (via soydulcedeleche)
Report: Nearly half of American public schools... →
karnythia:
Tell me again about what poor students of color ought to be doing to be successful in schools that are failing to teach & support them adequately.
SOPA is up for debate RIGHT NOW →
dresdencodak:
lexxercise:
When PIPA reared its ugly head, I, along with countless American denizens of the web, wrote an appeal to my representatives to reject it. If you value net neutrality, it’s time to write and call your representatives again.
Like PIPA (Protect IP Act), SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a vaguely written bill that poses a much greater threat to individuals, artists,...
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
(via nessfraserloves)
That is seriously disturbing.
(via ladyatheist)
I was talking to one of my Brit flatmates today who was shocked to hear that, in America, adoption is expensive. Apparently in...
“Women are not allowed to make off-color jokes. They have to appear to be...”
– Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO - Forbes (via robot-heart-politics)
Follow: Fuck Yeah Evil Women →
cuntofdoom:
veggielezzyfemmie:
I made a blog about Evil Women throughout History.
It may or may not have a long blog life, but feel free to follow if you may.
So excite! This is relevant to my interests.
World-renowned chef, Karl Wilder, tries living on... →
stfuconservatives:
norweeg submitted: “Since Rick Santorum doesn’t understand how people who rely on food stamps can also be obese, here’s the story of a chef who demonstrated the health effects of eating on a food stamps budget on himself. Its a very interesting read.”
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I actually wrote about this too - Even A Chef Can’t Make It On Food Stamps (Persephone Magazine)
But yeah. Living on...
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via loveyourchaos)
“Furthermore, even if we decided for some reason that it was indeed natural for...”
– American Society: How It Really Works by Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers (via freckledgnome)
“Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They are impossible to find.”
– Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
Sick burn Harry
(via stfuconservatives)
“Imagine, if you will, a man who, as Speaker of the House, orchestrates the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker. (via langer)
This is why we protest: Congressional staffers... →
istellar:
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists
Allison Halataei (former deputy chief of staff for House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)) and Lauren Pastarnack (former senior aide on the Senate Judiciary Committee) have cool new jobs. Having written the Internet-destroying Stop Online Piracy Act for their bosses while drawing a...
“If Newt Gingrich is the smartest guy in the room, leave that room.”
– Joe Scarborough (via politicalprof)
Scientific Community Slams Plan B Decision →
lionessyawn:
prolongedeyecontact
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled FDA findings showing that Plan B One Step is safe to be sold to all females of childbearing age without a prescription. As we’ve already mentioned, there are some hefty problems with this ruling, including that now the emergency contraceptive will be kept behind pharmacy counters...
“What we truly know ourselves to be should be the only determinant of our gender...”
– Micah Bazant, Trans Etiquette/Respect/Support 101 (2011) (PDF link)
“New York State Bill A1008/S323, cosponsored by more than a dozen state senators,...”
– Stopping Police and DAs from Using Condoms to Convict Sex Workers — Feministe
About time. Sign the petition here: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-new-york-state-legislators-condoms-arent-a-crime
(via workingsex)
