Sunday Linkfest!
Mar. 6th, 2011 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaYes! I know! It's been a long time! Grad school ate my life! -_- I can't guarantee that this is going to be the mainstay it should be for the next few weeks, because term papers are coming up. I have a fourth draft of my MRP proposal due tomorrow. I was told my supervisor is rigorous, but now I really know what rigorous is.
OK, link time.
Here's a time-sensitive one: The Con or Bust! auction ends today, and it drastically short of its fundraising goals, and needed monies to fulfill requests from fans of colour to go to WisCon this year, among other conventions. You can donate directly or you can bid on stuff that has few bids or you can browse the whole site to see if anything catches your fancy. Please signal boost!
So, er, I guess I should post links from weeks ago that I meant to post up but didn't...
Jaded16 responds to some pro-imperialist fuckery.
mai'a medicine on how to support a revolution.
Vancouver Sun from mid-February: Arab unrest latest: Clashes in Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Yemen add to Middle East turmoil
Psychology Today: Amy Chua is a circus trainer, not a tiger mother
io9: Did Gary Numan predict Facebook? From his song "Are Friends Electric?" which came out in the 80's or so.
Cycling by candlelight. Yes, a bike lamp with a candle.
From Resist Racism: awful adoption commodification, adoptive parents forgetting to get citizenship for their kids, Chinese American mayors.
PBS documentary of the Mosuo women, a known matrilineal society.
Geek Feminism has another -_- face at gamer men who get shocked at the discrimination and harassment women face. More on sexual assault, figures from Australia. And how you as a hirer can help those with Imposter Syndrome
A news item from 2003: Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
A blog I've not read before! Queer Black Feminist on white women who need to take the mic from the start.
On Rejection and Power
Cathay Pacific UK discriminated against a Muslim man applying for a job. He sent in the same resume under a white name and got an interview. Boo, Cathay Pacific.
Restructure! If tech discussion was really about tech, it wouldn’t be sexist.
Call for submissions for a new trans art and literature magazine!
The Rejectionist on the whiteness of the publishing industry.
Hathor Legacy's Sunless Nick has a response to the "aren't you glad your mother didn't abort you?" question.
Hugo Schwyzer on the gendered differentials on working and studying hours at his college.
Alternet: Birth Control for Men: 3 Promising Advances. So men can no longer complain about lyin' bitchez who trip up the birth control.
Another two calls for submissions: Cottonpolis, an anthology on a steampunk Manchester (yeah, talk about specific!), and Carina Press, on their Steampunk Winter Holiday Collection
Fiction and Fact about Sex Work
A really fascinating essay by French Houria Bouteldja on First World Feminism from a Third World perspective.
The Scavenger: Why I Don't Want to have Biracial Children (article disavowing the "biracial" label, because it idealizes whiteness in favour of blackness)
Remember Bradley Manning? His torture continues. Tell me again why Assange was so important?
China and Africa: an article on China's investment in Libya and how China has been responding to what's been happening in Libya.
Transformative Change: When People Rise
And lastly, a kickass poem from a 17th century Mexican poetess on gendered double standards.
OK, link time.
Here's a time-sensitive one: The Con or Bust! auction ends today, and it drastically short of its fundraising goals, and needed monies to fulfill requests from fans of colour to go to WisCon this year, among other conventions. You can donate directly or you can bid on stuff that has few bids or you can browse the whole site to see if anything catches your fancy. Please signal boost!
So, er, I guess I should post links from weeks ago that I meant to post up but didn't...
Jaded16 responds to some pro-imperialist fuckery.
mai'a medicine on how to support a revolution.
Vancouver Sun from mid-February: Arab unrest latest: Clashes in Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Yemen add to Middle East turmoil
Psychology Today: Amy Chua is a circus trainer, not a tiger mother
io9: Did Gary Numan predict Facebook? From his song "Are Friends Electric?" which came out in the 80's or so.
Cycling by candlelight. Yes, a bike lamp with a candle.
From Resist Racism: awful adoption commodification, adoptive parents forgetting to get citizenship for their kids, Chinese American mayors.
PBS documentary of the Mosuo women, a known matrilineal society.
Geek Feminism has another -_- face at gamer men who get shocked at the discrimination and harassment women face. More on sexual assault, figures from Australia. And how you as a hirer can help those with Imposter Syndrome
A news item from 2003: Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
A blog I've not read before! Queer Black Feminist on white women who need to take the mic from the start.
On Rejection and Power
Cathay Pacific UK discriminated against a Muslim man applying for a job. He sent in the same resume under a white name and got an interview. Boo, Cathay Pacific.
Restructure! If tech discussion was really about tech, it wouldn’t be sexist.
Call for submissions for a new trans art and literature magazine!
The Rejectionist on the whiteness of the publishing industry.
Hathor Legacy's Sunless Nick has a response to the "aren't you glad your mother didn't abort you?" question.
Hugo Schwyzer on the gendered differentials on working and studying hours at his college.
Alternet: Birth Control for Men: 3 Promising Advances. So men can no longer complain about lyin' bitchez who trip up the birth control.
Another two calls for submissions: Cottonpolis, an anthology on a steampunk Manchester (yeah, talk about specific!), and Carina Press, on their Steampunk Winter Holiday Collection
Fiction and Fact about Sex Work
A really fascinating essay by French Houria Bouteldja on First World Feminism from a Third World perspective.
The Scavenger: Why I Don't Want to have Biracial Children (article disavowing the "biracial" label, because it idealizes whiteness in favour of blackness)
Remember Bradley Manning? His torture continues. Tell me again why Assange was so important?
China and Africa: an article on China's investment in Libya and how China has been responding to what's been happening in Libya.
Transformative Change: When People Rise
And lastly, a kickass poem from a 17th century Mexican poetess on gendered double standards.