Category Archives: Site and Admin Stuff

Thanksgiving is on us.
Wednesday Addams

So, I thought a post would be cool.
(Earlier video was replaced due to well-argued objection)

delux_vivens linked me to Deconstructing the Myth of Thanksgiving
Myth #1: “The First Thanksgiving” occurred in 1621.
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Fact: No one knows when the “first” thanksgiving occurred. People have been giving thanks for as long as people have existed. […]

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The “myth of thanksgiving” linkspam

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Internets? I am so fucking angry right now. Why? I saw this two days ago: Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs. and I’m thinking what the everloving fuck????? Then I am meandering about on Daily Kos and I see a book review for Conservation Refugees: […]

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Conservation Refugees and other perils facing indigenous people and their environments…from environmentalists as well as the usual suspects.

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Is there ever a time when Hollywood is not FAILing? First up, What these people need is a honky syndrome goes off planet in:
James Cameron’s Avatar

Lawd ha’ mercy internets. Lord ha mercy. Because Hollywood sure as hell won’t. You know, a lot of those bullshit tropes that show up in movies like this […]

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Linkspam Hollywood FAIL edition

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Does teen literature exaggerate the mean girl phenomena too much?
Neesha Meminger: “This is a question I’ve often pondered myself. I think my main concern with the “mean girls” phenomenon is that they focus on inter-personal dynamics without also looking at the larger, social,
economic, and political constructs within which we all function. In the case […]

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Linkspam on the Weekend: Posts rattling around in my head edition.

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EDIT: So I deleted this cause I was having trouble cutting the post, saw nojojojo and decided to leave it deleted, but it got crossposted anyway. Whoops.
Have a midweek linkspam. (Alas a blog? This post is video heavy)
I went to see Whip It a few weeks ago. It was absolutely wonderful! The Roller Derby scenes […]

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American Women Athletes Part Five: At the Movies

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Have a midweek linkspam. (Alas a blog? This post is video heavy)
I went to see Whip It a few weeks ago. It was absolutely wonderful! The Roller Derby scenes in particular left me cheering and full of adrenaline, and the fact that the movie made the love story a secondary plot and focused on her […]

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American Women Athletes: At the movies

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Or an Indian, Chinese, Native America, Mexican …
There’s another post on my fl list that says it eloquently 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 a class by […]

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Dont dress up like what you think is a Jamaican this Halloween

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Lets talk Tasers
Taser advice: Don’t aim at target’s chest You don’t say?
44 Tasing related Death in the United States since the beginning of this year
Here’s a list of blogs that are keeping up with the latest incidents involving police being assholes with tasers. Click on, scroll down, and if you are aware of any that […]

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Taser Nation

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There was a blowup in the feminist blogosphere recently on the lack of intersectional recognition and dealing with disability. I’ve have not been following it as well as I should have, but one of the posts I read mentioned FWD/Forward In it’s About section, the contributors explain their mission:
FWD/Forward is a group blog […]

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Feature Blog: FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities for a way forward)

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To start off, a couple of booksThe Real Cost of Prison Project Comics that have been thoroughly researched dealing with the War on Drugs, the cost of Prison Towns and how prison affects women and children.
The Incarcerated Woman: Rehabilative Programming in Women’s Prisons (Paperback)
Resistance behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Lets take a short look […]

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Prison Diaries…A short linkspam

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