December 2011
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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I'm actually going to try writing some original...
Now I just need to overcome my intense fear that I’m an intellectual fraud incapable of articulating or understanding even the basics of what I’m studying. Between the memory loss due to years of taking strong drugs in the hospital and my overwhelming doubt about my ability to produce anything of worth, I tend to leave my writing tucked away from view. I don’t fear a debate or...
Dec 21st
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“It would be impossible to excavate the roots and the reach of the medicalization...”
– Nancy Ordover -  American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (via effusionofbiopower)
Dec 21st
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“A few years ago, UCLA biologist Dr. Lauren Allen told attendees at the American...”
– Nancy Ordover -  American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (via effusionofbiopower)
Dec 21st
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“Further, genealogical analysis shows that the concept of liberty is an...”
– Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” Suck it, libertarians. (via sonofapritch) Hostis humani generis (via effusionofbiopower)
Dec 21st
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“Private Manning has endured horrendous treatment in prison waiting for trial. ...”
– Emily Manuel, Why does the media still refer to “Bradley” Manning? The Curious Silence Around A Transgender Hero (Global Comment) If you really want to show support for a trans woman, you can start by gendering her properly. (via kiriamaya)
Dec 21st
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“Positive responses to The Bell Curve and The Science of Desire exemplified the...”
– Nancy Ordover -  American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (via effusionofbiopower)
Dec 21st
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“On October 16, 1994, the cover of the New York Times Book Review sported a...”
– Nancy Ordover -  American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (via effusionofbiopower)
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“Like Sennett, Marazzi recognizes that the new conditions both required and...”
–  Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (via littlejoeii)
Dec 20th
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“A Latino Army veteran arrested by sheriff’s deputies in Maricopa County,...”
– Democracy Now! | Headlines for December 20, 2011 (via midwestmountainmama)
Dec 20th
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“The development of intellectual property law has been a contested political...”
– Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History by Christopher May and Susan K. Sell (2006)
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“You know that shirt is from a creepy anarchist sex farm, right?”
– Things overheard while on the phone with Skramz.
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Dec 16th
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I have absolutely no damn clue as to what I’m going to do if I don’t find a way to pay the exorbitant tuition to return to school. I doubt I’ll even be able to get a student loan since I don’t have anybody with a credit rating adequate enough to act as a co-signer. Sometimes I feel as if everything I’m trying to do is a fool’s errand.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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I just received an invitation to a 3 1/2 year high school reunion (yes, apparently this is a “thing”) at a coffee shop at 9 in the morning on Christmas Eve. LOL
Dec 16th
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“Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations...”
– Mia Mingus, Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability (via jadedfucker)
Dec 16th
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Egyptian army fires live ammunition in clash with... →
matryoshhka: At least two people were killed in clashes on Friday between demonstrators and troops in the worst violence since the start of Egypt’s first free election in six decades, medics said. The Egyptian army reportedly fired live ammunition and used electric-shock rods in fresh clashes with protesters outside the cabinet’s offices in Cairo on Friday, according to medics and witnesses. ...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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I've been readmitted to Hampshire College for the...
I know I should probably be feeling some sense of relief and gratitude, but I’m mostly doing battle with an overwhelming sense of panic over finances and that it took several doctors’ notes to prove I’m not going to have to resume the cycle of surgeries and poorly attempted trials at returning.  Mostly I just want Skramz to come visit for the New Year and to get through the next...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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If I Was A Poor Black Kid, I'd Key Gene Marks's...
rocknrollmartian: So there’s this fancy new column on Forbes from Gene Marks called “If I Were A Poor Black Kid”. Shockingly, it is not written by a poor black kid, but a middle-class white man. But don’t worry, this isn’t just any rich white man: this is the middle-class white man who knows the answer to all of their silly poor people problems. Yep, that usually works out pretty well. The...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops...”
– William Burroughs (via cultureofresistance)
Dec 13th
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“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...”
– Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (via tanitaf)
Dec 10th
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Philosophy Bites →
thenoobyorker: kohenari: The first 168 short interviews with noted philosophers are available at the above link. I’ve linked to some of these over the course of the past couple of years, but I’ve tried to do so sparingly. My general rule has been to link to interviews that touch on a topic I’m exploring in a class or in something I’m writing … which means there are probably somewhere in the...
Dec 8th
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Government tested AIDS drugs on foster kids  →
karnythia: This is why so many people don’t trust the government or doctors. Sure, some of this kids got early access to AZT & that extended their life span. But many of them did not. In fact some of these kids died. In one study, researchers reported a “disturbing” higher death rate among children who took higher doses of a drug. That study was unable to determine a safe and...
Dec 8th
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Be Aware: Nick Kristof's Anti-Politics
ayiman: thenewinquiry: By Elliott Prasse-Freeman “How can you watch people die in the streets?” “You don’t look, you close your eyes.” Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times journalist, is often hailed as a defender of the downtrodden, courageously reporting those man-made events that “shock the conscience.” As he traipses the globe to report on its most grisly moments,...
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“The LAPD likes to rub the ACLU’s face in the new, post-liberal balance of power....”
– Mike Davis - City of Quartz yep, the cops are part of the 99%… that enjoys using bullets unacceptable for military engagements in policing actions on the shaky, but legitimate (apparently) argument that policing is not a military engagement and thus isn’t beholden to the Geneva Conventions… (via...
Dec 7th
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Philly DA dropping death penalty against Mumia... →
southerntellect: Adding partial text for those who aren’t logged into Google: PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will no longer pursue the death penalty against former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in prison for gunning down a white police officer nearly 30 years ago. The decision by District Attorney Seth Williams,...
Dec 7th
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“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart) this is my father’s story (via guerrillamamamedicine)
Dec 7th
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“Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in...”
– Border deal fuels concerns in Canada - Toronto Star Fuck this shit. (via politicore)
Dec 5th
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I just want Skramz to be home because I miss them even though it’s only been a few hours. I will drink beer and hold off my urge to continue calling the now-closed admissions office of my college about the status of my re-application. At least my adviser has agreed to continue working with me if I’m re-admitted. I’ve been floundering for so long that the idea of actually...
Dec 1st
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“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I...”
– Toni Morrison (via @SonofBaldwin on Twitter). As usual, her words are fierce and truer than true. (via tinyfist)
Dec 1st
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“It is not an exaggeration to state that intellectual property rights are a...”
– Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History by Christopher May and Susan K. Sell (2006)
Dec 1st
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