Sunday Linkfest!
Jul. 4th, 2010 10:56 amHappy Sunday, folks! I have to post this right now because the rest of the day, I'll be busy - volunteering at a local durian-eating fest (where I'll be carrying durians and serving them to people who pay RM10 to eat as much durian as they can in one hour), then it's shopping for new bras with a friend (and proper bras too, no more RM10 stuff for me), and then meeting a photographer.
Fugitivus: On Interpersonal Badness - ( I feel I must quote some stuff from this )
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issendai's How To Keep Someone With you Forever
Resist Racism: Dutch may use decoy Jews to fight racism
Washington Post: Two men marry about 62-year-long engagement!
From debunkingwhite: On model minority, "almost white" status
The Star newspaper: African Musicians you probably should know about since FIFA World Cup is in South Africa and there's more to African music than the vuvuzela
Forensic Psychologist: I'm a Criminal and So Are You (h/ttariq_kamal)
this ain't livin': Glee and the Great Dichotomy
The Curvature: Scotland's Anti-Rape Campaign tackles "she was asking for it" myth
SF Weekly: Worlds Apart, a heart-breaking expose on how inter-national gay couples have trouble staying together.
Stuff White People Do: honour minority traditions in their own way... usually very disrespectfully.
National Post: CANADA HAS DECIDED TO GIVE OTHER NATIONS CONTROL OF FLIGHT PASSENGER LISTS LEAVING FROM CANADA WHAT THE FUCK HARPER GOVERNMENT
Restructure!: Male geeks reclaim masculinity at the expense of female geeks
Racialicious: Jessica Yee reports - The 20th Anniversary of Oka and the continuation of unearthing human rights at the G8/G20 summits
The Last Airbender links:
Face Painting
but we must always be polite about it
fiction_theory: On agents charging reading fees
Yes Means Yes! Blog: Tracking Shit on the Carpets
Disgrasian: Wonder Woman now wears pants, thanks to amasian Jim Lee. Oh, and her new costume is AWESOME.
Nathan from the Marin Foundation: I Hugged A Man in his Underwear and I am Proud - on Christian reconciliation at a Pride march.
Disability Voices: A Stitch in Time can Sometimes Cost you Nine
Colorlines: The "End of Men" isn't the End of Racism
The Pursuit of Harpyness: Now we just need to come up with a catchy name for the new BC Pill for men! Sperm Buster, maybe?
Tonic.com: Constance McMillen - barred from prom, now doors keep opening for more awesome things!
East Bay Express: Can Health Care Treat Crime?
Washington City Paper: Amanda Hess interviews Courtney Stoke on being a feminist geek
Red Vinyl Shoes: Out of the Gene Pool - Disability and Biological Children
Guardian: Deborah Cameron on the supposed miscommunication between men and women, busts the stupid Men are from Mars Women are from Venus myth.
wilderthan: The online community and ableism
Street Harassment: So I'm Pretty. That Doesn't Oblige Me to Sleep with You
Egypt Today: Reformist thinker Gamal El-Banna re-ignites an age-old debate, contesting the role of Sunnah in modern-day Islam (this is actually a very old article, from 2005, but I still find it relevant)
And in the writing world:
Theodora Goss, whom I sat with on the Politics of Steampunk panel at WisCon, wrote a great story called The Daughters of Mad Scientists!
Flying Airship is looking for submissions.
Expanded Horizon's Issue #20 is out!
Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix cover got whitewashed. Yay. Sigh. Reviews time!
Fugitivus: On Interpersonal Badness - ( I feel I must quote some stuff from this )
Related to this is
issendai's How To Keep Someone With you ForeverResist Racism: Dutch may use decoy Jews to fight racism
Washington Post: Two men marry about 62-year-long engagement!
From debunkingwhite: On model minority, "almost white" status
The Star newspaper: African Musicians you probably should know about since FIFA World Cup is in South Africa and there's more to African music than the vuvuzela
Forensic Psychologist: I'm a Criminal and So Are You (h/t
tariq_kamal)this ain't livin': Glee and the Great Dichotomy
The Curvature: Scotland's Anti-Rape Campaign tackles "she was asking for it" myth
SF Weekly: Worlds Apart, a heart-breaking expose on how inter-national gay couples have trouble staying together.
Stuff White People Do: honour minority traditions in their own way... usually very disrespectfully.
National Post: CANADA HAS DECIDED TO GIVE OTHER NATIONS CONTROL OF FLIGHT PASSENGER LISTS LEAVING FROM CANADA WHAT THE FUCK HARPER GOVERNMENT
Restructure!: Male geeks reclaim masculinity at the expense of female geeks
Racialicious: Jessica Yee reports - The 20th Anniversary of Oka and the continuation of unearthing human rights at the G8/G20 summits
The Last Airbender links:
Face Painting
but we must always be polite about it
fiction_theory: On agents charging reading feesYes Means Yes! Blog: Tracking Shit on the Carpets
Disgrasian: Wonder Woman now wears pants, thanks to amasian Jim Lee. Oh, and her new costume is AWESOME.
Nathan from the Marin Foundation: I Hugged A Man in his Underwear and I am Proud - on Christian reconciliation at a Pride march.
Disability Voices: A Stitch in Time can Sometimes Cost you Nine
Colorlines: The "End of Men" isn't the End of Racism
The Pursuit of Harpyness: Now we just need to come up with a catchy name for the new BC Pill for men! Sperm Buster, maybe?
Tonic.com: Constance McMillen - barred from prom, now doors keep opening for more awesome things!
East Bay Express: Can Health Care Treat Crime?
Washington City Paper: Amanda Hess interviews Courtney Stoke on being a feminist geek
Red Vinyl Shoes: Out of the Gene Pool - Disability and Biological Children
Guardian: Deborah Cameron on the supposed miscommunication between men and women, busts the stupid Men are from Mars Women are from Venus myth.
wilderthan: The online community and ableism
Street Harassment: So I'm Pretty. That Doesn't Oblige Me to Sleep with You
Egypt Today: Reformist thinker Gamal El-Banna re-ignites an age-old debate, contesting the role of Sunnah in modern-day Islam (this is actually a very old article, from 2005, but I still find it relevant)
And in the writing world:
Theodora Goss, whom I sat with on the Politics of Steampunk panel at WisCon, wrote a great story called The Daughters of Mad Scientists!
Flying Airship is looking for submissions.
Expanded Horizon's Issue #20 is out!
Cindy Pon's Silver Phoenix cover got whitewashed. Yay. Sigh. Reviews time!