Category Archives: Class, poverty, labor, & related issues

Right-Wing Blogger Says Feminist Should Be "Fixed" By Being Raped

On his blog, Clint Heine and his readers discuss Maia. Responding to Heine calling Maia a “parasite” and suggesting she’s mentally ill, “James” wrote: Nothing a big black dildo won’t fix…… To which Heine responded, James…..!!! Nice suggestion, go over … Continue reading →

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Universal Health Care & Personal Health Concerns

On a pandagon thread about socialized medicine, a commenter called Catty writes, “I know 2 die-hard libertarians that are now universal health care supporters. Funny how problems like multiple sclerosis and cancer can change people’s minds.” I have always supported … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Disabled Rights & Issues, Economics and the like | 331 Comments

Justice for Mulrunji Doomadgee

Three years ago Chris Hurley killed Mulrunji Doomadgee. Chris Hurley is a police officer, who arrested Mulrunji Doomadgee for ‘Drunk and Disorderly Behaviour’ – the criminality of being drunk often depends on the colour of your skin. How you get … Continue reading →

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Review: Red Diapers, Growing Up in the Communist Left

Josh’s older sister’s farvourite game was ‘Party Meeting’ she played it with her friend Simone. Vera and Simone were the party leaders, teddy bears and younger brothers were the rank and file: “Tonight,” said Simone, “we will hear a report … Continue reading →

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Aren't they generous?

From Scoop: Top established Wellington fashion designers Robyn Mathieson, Ashley Fogel, and Voon will join some of the city’s most promising up-and-coming new design talent to raise money for Wellington Women’s Refuge, on Thursday June 7. Fashion HQ will showcase … Continue reading →

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A Cartoon about Subprime Mortgages

“Subprime mortgages.” Boy, I sure pick exciting topics, don’t I? TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has six panels, with a caption at bottom. The caption says “GOING TO THE SCARY PLACE.” All the panels depict two woman, talking as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Economics and the like | 54 Comments

State Rankings: Low Income and Poor Children

The National Center for Children in Poverty has released a brief on how state policies affect low income children and children living in poverty. You can link to the entire report here.  Here are the states with the highest and … Continue reading →

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Just a couple of links

My friend Pip has a blog called Great Expectations. She’s only got a couple of posts up but she’s asking some really interesting questions: Are there white middle-class butches? If so, where are they? I found Judith/Jack Halberstam’s book, Female … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Feminism, sexism, etc, Link farms, Transsexual and Transgender related issues | 46 Comments

Social Class, Food Service, and Schools

For some reason this post at Women of Color Blog and this post at the way here reminded me of my childhood, and the social class dynamics of growing up poor.  In her post on Women of Color blog BFP … Continue reading →

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Must Read

I didn’t link to brownfemipower’s amazing post about la familia and immigration, because I wanted to say something. I wanted to argue for open borders. Then I thought that when I get round to writing about open borders then those … Continue reading →

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