Sunday Linkfest!
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jhameiaHi folks! 250 more words to go on this paper I'm writing about compensation and happy objects in Anita Rau Badami's novel Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? and knowing I have more to say about Jasbeer and how his burden of being a happy object is an obstacle for coming into his own identity as a transnational citizen. So while I witter about it, here is a Sunday Linkfest!
Remember Schrodinger's Rapist? Here's Schrodinger's Privilege.
At Hoyden About Town, Wildly Parenthetical discusses tackling misogyny through formal and informal mechanisms, in workplaces, and tigtog reminds us, don't mistake expressing contempt for taking offense.
Airial Clark of Good Vibrations has a thoughtful post on how to deal with slut-shaming encountered in a child's daily life. Must recall this conversation for when I am someday a parent, or at least, trying to figure out how to tell a child gently that slutshaming is bad.
Beau Sia has a response to Alexandra Wallace, and there's a transcript at the link.
On Autism Awareness Month, by Zoe, an actually autistic person.
Nisi Shawl at Strange Horizons talks about race. Again. Still.
ardhra shared with me this horrific document which is basically all about raising tuition costs for international students wrapped up in very neat, nice, official language.
Via Neesha Meminger, a Sikh youth activist who presented at Capitol Hill on school bullying and his efforts to combat it was racially profiled for being "a man of Middle Eastern appearance acting suspiciously. Post-racial America, eh?
Muhammad Yunus, founder of the micro-financing bank Grameen, has been sacked as its managing director, even though he appealed to Bangladesh's Supreme Court. I'm kinda fuzzy on the details, but it was interesting to me, because he was a professor at my undergrad alma mater when I was there.
Via zuky, Yes Magazine's article on The City That Ended Hunger, which would be Belo Horizonte in Brazil that started initiatives to work with local farmers in order to make food cheaper. Amazing.
Did you know LJ was really important? I didn't. synecdochic explains how.
At Racialicious (which I know I've not been posting much of, and I wish I had time to read it more!), a repost from Hugo Najera on How Change Agents, Activists, Advocates, and Other Do-Gooders Seem to Not Get It Right After 40 Years of Trying.
An article about the curse in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
A sophomore at Columbia College explains safe spaces, their function, and deflects common criticisms.
Newsweek article on black parents raising adopted white kids.
BBC's interview with Idris Elba who is going to play Heimdall, whitest of gods, in the upcoming movie Thor. I for one am still absurdly pleased that Heimdall will be played by a black man.
Steam-Powered: Steampunk Lesbian Stories IS NOW A YEARLY ANTHOLOGY HEY-O! Congrats, JoSelle!!!
Also, deadline for submissions to Steam-Powered 2 are Tuesday, just sayin'...
If you were following the Wicked Pretty Things thing where Jessica Verday withdrew and called out the editor for thinking the publishers wouldn't want a gay couple in it, and how the publishers responded kind of problematically, here's a post taking apart the president of the publishing company's statement at Publishers Weekly and other responses to it.
Remember Schrodinger's Rapist? Here's Schrodinger's Privilege.
At Hoyden About Town, Wildly Parenthetical discusses tackling misogyny through formal and informal mechanisms, in workplaces, and tigtog reminds us, don't mistake expressing contempt for taking offense.
Airial Clark of Good Vibrations has a thoughtful post on how to deal with slut-shaming encountered in a child's daily life. Must recall this conversation for when I am someday a parent, or at least, trying to figure out how to tell a child gently that slutshaming is bad.
Beau Sia has a response to Alexandra Wallace, and there's a transcript at the link.
On Autism Awareness Month, by Zoe, an actually autistic person.
Nisi Shawl at Strange Horizons talks about race. Again. Still.
ardhra shared with me this horrific document which is basically all about raising tuition costs for international students wrapped up in very neat, nice, official language.Via Neesha Meminger, a Sikh youth activist who presented at Capitol Hill on school bullying and his efforts to combat it was racially profiled for being "a man of Middle Eastern appearance acting suspiciously. Post-racial America, eh?
Muhammad Yunus, founder of the micro-financing bank Grameen, has been sacked as its managing director, even though he appealed to Bangladesh's Supreme Court. I'm kinda fuzzy on the details, but it was interesting to me, because he was a professor at my undergrad alma mater when I was there.
Via zuky, Yes Magazine's article on The City That Ended Hunger, which would be Belo Horizonte in Brazil that started initiatives to work with local farmers in order to make food cheaper. Amazing.
Did you know LJ was really important? I didn't. synecdochic explains how.
At Racialicious (which I know I've not been posting much of, and I wish I had time to read it more!), a repost from Hugo Najera on How Change Agents, Activists, Advocates, and Other Do-Gooders Seem to Not Get It Right After 40 Years of Trying.
An article about the curse in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
A sophomore at Columbia College explains safe spaces, their function, and deflects common criticisms.
Newsweek article on black parents raising adopted white kids.
BBC's interview with Idris Elba who is going to play Heimdall, whitest of gods, in the upcoming movie Thor. I for one am still absurdly pleased that Heimdall will be played by a black man.
Steam-Powered: Steampunk Lesbian Stories IS NOW A YEARLY ANTHOLOGY HEY-O! Congrats, JoSelle!!!
Also, deadline for submissions to Steam-Powered 2 are Tuesday, just sayin'...
If you were following the Wicked Pretty Things thing where Jessica Verday withdrew and called out the editor for thinking the publishers wouldn't want a gay couple in it, and how the publishers responded kind of problematically, here's a post taking apart the president of the publishing company's statement at Publishers Weekly and other responses to it.
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Date: 2011-04-12 08:15 pm (UTC)