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Nobody, LOL! I honestly haven't run into that factoid before.
Gar, thanks! Any sharing is good sharing! My URL is on the image itself on the left border, so anyone…
I don't think the existence of exceptions to a clear general trend, disproves that the trend exists. Interestingly, Mexicans seem…
Mental Floss "Word Nerd" 2025 Calendar January 9: Ampersand "Yes, an ampersand is a punctuation mark, but in the 1900s,…
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Author Archives: unusualmusic
Linkspam: Fighting the Power
SIGNAL BOOSTING
Labyrs Kyrgyzstan Is an LGBT organization in Kyrgyzstan that serves the needs of the LGBTQI community in that country . They need US $7000 to set up a permanent headquarters that they cannot be harassed and evicted out of.
Since its establishment in 2004 Labrys had to change offices 5 times most often because the […]
Linkspam: Fighting the Power — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman
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REPOST: Don’t dress up like what you think is a Jamaican this Halloween.
Or an Indian, Chinese, Native America, Mexican …
There’s another post on my fl list that says puts it even more bluntly, but its locked. However, I found another blog that breaks down the sentiments quite nicely. My identity is NOT a costume for you to wear! (The Native American via Ancient Eygpt costume is in […]
REPOST: Don’t dress up like what you think is a Jamaican this Halloween. — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman
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Rape Culture USA: How race, class, misogyny and homophobia intersected in the Kelly and Antoine Dodson story
Today in my class we were trying to learn a camera technique. We decided to use funny youtube videos to illustrate the proper way to shoot the scenes we wanted. And my classmates decided that the Antoine Dodson videos were such GREAT candidates because man, wasn’t he SO FUNNY?!?!? I tried to point out the […]
Rape Culture USA: How race, class, misogyny and homophobia intersected in the Kelly and Antoine Dodson story — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman
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Some links on race and class
Hey you all. Been a while eh? Work and school have pulled me under, so I am a bit busy. However, have a few links:
via: jhameia poor people aren’t supposed to want nice things
I don’t know if you guys received the memo; but poor people aren’t supposed to want nice things.
All rags-to-riches (or rags-to-bitches, if […]
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Whitewashing: Stealing our stories from real life to fiction.
Just to build on that lovely post below by the original Angry Black Woman: Can the less knowledgeable among us netizens FINALLY get it through their skulls that the argument that anime characters are white is WRONG like a very wrong thing now? Please? I mean, seriously?
via: racebending:
Are anime characters caucasian or japanese
The description […]
Whitewashing: Stealing our stories from real life to fiction. — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman
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Why you should not see “The Last Airbender” movie, but watch the cartoon instead.
Almost a year ago, I did this post The People and their cultures: POC and the movies And now, on the eve of the gut-churning insult in every way that is the movie adaptation of The Last Airbender, I come again. Doubtless, you have seen the commercials. Aren’t the CGI effects pretty? And its […]
Why you should not see “The Last Airbender” movie, but watch the cartoon instead. — Originally posted at The Angry Black Woman
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Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition
So apparently this month is LGBT Pride Month. I therefore snagged this from ontd political which gives the info that it was first put together by students of Earlham College and the poster added the links. Do I have to mention the part where ‘phobic assholes of any kind will be summarily deleted and banned? […]
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Linkspam: Unpacking the invisible knapsack Straight privilege edition
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EARTH DAY!!!
Earth Day at the Climate Justice Frontier
There are no shortage of ideas today for how global capitalism can be marshaled to slow down global warming. Never mind that we’re in this mess in the first place largely due to the take-no-prisoners industrialization that today’s wealthier nations built their fortunes upon. And many of the world’s […]
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Sometimes the world does not suck: Part Two
Before we get to the good parts however: A Signal Fire via jonquil: Do not trust Clitoraid, the charity being promoted by Betty Dobson that offers surgery to FGM victims
see also RESPECT Find out what it means to me!
I WOULD NOT OBJECT TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN […]
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Sometimes the world does not suck
I tend to write posts when I am pissed. Now this is great motivation, but unrelenting gloom and doom tends to leave me ridiculously depressed, and pessimistic about the fate of the world. So this is a post for good news, my readers. Because sometimes the world does not suck!
The first same-sex wedding […]
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_Railsea_ by China Mieville has ampersands as part of the story-- both text and symbolism. A genuinely weird surrealist novel.