Okay, another huge collection of links. INCOMING.
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is,
Follow-up,
Comment on Comments,
Final notes. I think everyone and their dog has linked to this. I did grin a bit at how much I'm not playing at the very easiest level. Not the hardest by any means, but not the easiest either.
Pick your battle: a practical guide to social activism - it's written as an introduction but more experienced activists will probably get something out of it too, and is clear, direct and explains issues without over-simplifying them.
RaceSepia Mutiny’s Closure Is a Reminder: Blogging While Brown Ain’t Easy - “Just writing and covering and talking about racism daily is exhausting and really emotionally taxing,” Peterson [editor of Racialicious] adds. “I think people don’t realize that we aren’t desensitized—reading about these horrific things happening or reading yet another mind-numbing report on how systemic racism screws us all does get to us.” Yes. If I've ever taken a step back from activism, it's never been because I've stopped caring - it's because I've exhausted myself.
Gender: womenThe D for Dalrymple Questionhair results – preamble and defence,
Gender, Age, Geography - blogger's curiosity morphs into huge survey.
Safer spaces, false allegations, and the NYC Anarchist Bookfair [TRIGGER WARNING - sexual violence] "Drawing up a safer spaces policy for your event, organisation, or space is easy enough, but deciding what happens when someone violates that agreement is clearly a controversial issue. I don't think anyone has, yet, come up with a clear, easily replicated model for dealing with these issues in our communities and networks"
We Are All Nuns - I kind of have complicated feelings on nuns but it's nice to see an article acknowledging them
Suzanne Moore: The Second Sexism is just victim-envy - I confess; I haven't read the book, and indeed, this seems like amazing publicity for it. Ho hum.
What WOTC says to its female audience (and what we hear)The Great Wall Of Vagina – it’s in London, it’s amazing and y’all might enjoy checking it out @unfortunatalie: Gendered marketing really gets on my titsGender: trans*Trying to change your pronouns on facebook? - I'd be interested in hearing if anyone's managed this.
The Genderbread Person v2.0 - simplistic, but clear way of breaking down different components of gender and sexual identity
30+ examples of cisgender privilege New study finds genderqueer people face unique patterns of abuse and discrimination - hardly surprising, but one of the problems is that there's so little data. Which leads to...
Trans Mental Health and Well-Being Survey - open to a wide range of trans and gender variant identities, so do check if you're able to take part
On Laura Gabel and transphobia in 'alternate' scenes Verb Hunting for Genderqueers - how to describe "the process genderqueers go through to become themselves", or to align their physical bodies more closely with their gender identity
IntersectionsAutostraddle: Five Small Contributions: On Being A Queer Person of Color - "To have a conversation about race is too singular. And to have a conversation about being a queer person of color? Oh, girl. That is an encyclopedia of conversations, stories, dialogues, whatever. And by encyclopedia, I mean the whole set"
Call for Submissions From Muslim-Identified QPOC - also those who "practice another religion, faith, and/or spirituality that you feel isn’t as readily discussed in public forums, such as Hinduism or Sikhism, Wicca, African Traditional Religions, Baha’i etc"
Beenie Man releases YouTube video proclaiming support for gay rights - "controversial dancehall star becomes the latest in a string of formerly hypermasculine musicians to evolve on gay rights".
PoliticsSo now we know whose fault the recession is. Ours - "We're looking at the beginning of a new narrative: it's mainly the fault of the last government. But if it's not their fault, it's your fault. Those hard-working families we love to talk about? You weren't one of them. I clearly saw your kid watching Pokémon. Nobody was even trying to make anything they could sell in Brazil"
Beneath the Wig: And I am not making this up… - why the Human Rights Act 1998 is pretty great really
Neil Kinnock, 1983: "I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old."
Solidarity and its discontents - "how to rethink a practice of transnational solidarity that does not homogenize entire populations, cast struggling people outside the US as perpetual and helpless victims, or perpetuate unequal power relations between peoples and nations. Acts of solidarity that cross borders must be based on building relationships with activists in disparate locations, on an understanding of the different issues and conditions of struggle various movements face, and on exchanges of support among grassroots activists rather than governments, with each group committed to opposing oppression locally as well as globally [...] We are calling for a rethinking of what internationalism and international solidarity means from the vantage point of activists working in the US. Internationalism has to start from below, from the differently articulated aspirations of mass movements against state militarism, dictatorship, economic crisis, gender, sexual, religious, class and ethnic oppression, in Iran, in the US and all over the world."
Various pdfs I have openSayaka Osanami Törngren: Methodological Reflections on Being an East Asian Researcher Researching the White MajorityA Gender Not Listed Here: Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and OtherWise in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Rosalind Gill: Breaking the silence: The hidden injuries of neo-liberal academia bell hooks: Understanding Patriarchy Campaign for Real Farming: FARM ASSURANCE SCHEMES & ANIMAL WELFARE. How the standards compare 2012 Interesting stuffHow luck ran out on Leonardo da Vinci's science studies - I'm fascinated by da Vinci's ability to draw what he saw without trying to force it into contemporary understandings of anatomical theory.
Alice Roberts: 'Leonardo saw the body as a complex, beautiful machine' New England Journal of Medicine: Two Hundred Years of Surgery - warning for some pretty graphic descriptions of amputations pre-anaethesia.
Biomedical ephemera ...maybe I should have called this section "gruesome medical things".
Repatriating tribal remains to California BBC Nature: video collections - not sure if there's access outside the UK, but there's fascinating stuff here.
Sea kraits hunting in packs for example.
Jem Bloomfield: Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’ - "The BBC
Sherlock splendidly captures the tingling sense that everything around us is brimming over with secrets if we could only see them. And of course in this version we can actually see them.
Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with the idea that information is in the very air we’re breathing, and our fear that other people could use that information to harm us. There’s a lot to be beguiled by in this series."
Sophie's series of
Sherlock recaps:
A Scandal in Belgravia,
Hounds of Baskerville,
The Reichenbach Fall. I nearly hurt myself laughing.
25 words that simply don't exist in English The Loneliest Whale in the World - poor whale :(
In the pipeline: Things I won't work with - fascinating chemistry blog about dangerous and/or explosive chemicals
Whenever I've needed to cheer myself up this week, I've looked at
Food Critic Puppy. There, you're welcome.
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