January 2010
23 posts
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WatchZinn (1922-2010): A Tribute…
-DemocracyNow.org
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via bitchville)
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“People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have...”
– Ralph Lauren (via youmightfindyourself)
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AAAAARGH.ORG
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aaaargh.org has been taken down!!! urgh.
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Sarah Palin to become Fox News contributor →
“I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News,” Palin says in a statement. “It’s wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news.”
YOU ONCE RAN FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Doesn’t your employment with Fox bring into question the already dubious claim that they value fair and balanced...
Watch“… somehow we’ve got to reduce that footprint, and we’ve got to reduce it in a way, nonetheless, that increases the quality of life - that’s the great economic problem.”
-Edward O. Wilson on human population
WatchAlex Lundry on the potential dangers of graphics, particularly when used in political debates.
-source: contexts.org/socimages
Citizendium →
Click the header.
A co-founder of Wikipedia brings us a new online encyclopedia. This one seems to be more obviously academic, with greater emphasis on expert and group consensus. So far, there’s only a couple hundred articles up, but from these you can see this site will be more rigourous about referencing claims, citing work more frequently and usually at a higher quality. Maybe this...
“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful,...”
– Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments pt i, ch iii (1759). (via irredenta)
An Anti-Oppression Framework
Source: OPIRG.org
OPIRG Provincial Mission:
The Provincial organization of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group provides an opportunity for the members of individual PIRGs and OPIRG Organizing Committees to meet, exchange ideas, educate themselves and work together.
Goals:
To encourage diversity and social equality for all people by opposing all forms of oppression, such as sexism,...
wtf lol there is a major in feminist studies
mdktx1:
foreverybody:
mdktx1:
what are you supposed to do with that? someone insert a women belong in the kitchen joke here lol
You could do a lot with it. Like, you could come up with way better jokes than degrading your own gender! You could educate yourself (and others) about the challenges and barriers brought about by male privilege, so as to overcome them. You could work and...
"Product Pricing: Men Win Battle of the Sexes" →
newleft:
Roam any drugstore and you’ll see products that seem to be twins, except for one thing: One is for women, the other for men. We discovered that products directed at women—through packaging, description, or name—might cost up to 50 percent more than similar products for men.
When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like... →
This piece (hit the header) sums up what most well-educated people were thinking when they saw Avatar. Yet, everyone seems to defend it on the basis it looked great! Well, it did, but…
I thought the film did some things really well. For example, it shows sociologists and anthropologists as part of a colonial military mission, which is historically accurate for these disciplines. But...
Sociological Images →
@ http://contexts.org/socimages/
Sociological Images is a good read about our daily experience of sociological issues. The site usually reveals the embedded assumptions about race and gender that are pretty common in popular culture. Highlights for me were a few recent videos. One’s a terrible KFC ad from South Africa; another’s a viral ad from the danish tourism board, promoting...
A World's First →
Welcome back! Hope everyone had a good holiday.
In recent news: Minnesota levies world’s first carbon tariff … against North Dakota
(Click the header for the link!)
International Gramsci Society
Doesn’t look like it has been updated for a bit but has a pretty neat audio/video section with some decent lectures. Enjoy!
http://www.internationalgramscisociety.org/audio-video/index.html