Sunday Linkfest!
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jhameiaI know, it's been forever. I actually have a ton of links that I kept on collecting all through September/October but never got around to posting. Finally the other day I decided to just keep things simple and start afresh. But the old links are really cool though.
To start, some calls for submissions and other time-sensitive things:
Call for papers: Doctor Who and Race: An Anthology. Deadline: December 15.
Call for papers on The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies (link to PDF), a conference from May 3 - 5, 2012. Deadline: Dec 19
(Well, yeah, I know it cuts close, but hope spring eternal...)
Call for stories! JoSelle Vanderhooft, editor for both Steam-Powered anthologies and other cool lesbian anthos, has a call for gay ghost stories! Deadline: Jan 15
Call for papers on Techno-Orientalism in Science Fiction Film, Media and Literature. Deadline: March 15
OK, now onto some news:
Here are some Occupy Wall Street things, starting from the original declaration and the working draft of the Principles of Solidarity. Even then, there were already criticisms, because today tech enables us to access a wide font of knowledge, so we SHOULD be able to see patterns of behaviour, like this letter to anti-war activists about racism in the movement, and the struggles of POC on the ground to get heard and have to deliver Racism 101s (to people who ought to know better!).
Not to say it's been completely unproductive: People have been taking advantage of the Occupy energy to revitalize old fights, like this one in Austin over tent cities and raise issues of colonization that Native Americans still suffer under (here's a brief history of Manhattan Island's name). And people have been pointing out this re-occurring pattern at other Occupy sites too.
Given patterns of racism in the criminal system, and how USians made a big deal over losing Steve Jobs but not Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader or even Derrick Bell, a Civil Rights lawyer who gave up his professorship at Harvard to protest its unfair hiring practices, it's no surprise that such injustices carry over to affect other movements, like Slutwalk, where white women thought it'd be okay to appropriate a slur directed specifically at black women for some "larger point about women's status". Cue white feminists missing the clue and out comes the bingo card on how they discredit women of color, conveniently ignoring how women of colour will likely have things worse. Again, NOT! NEW! (look when this shit has been said since 1969...)
After this I just quit compiling links because there was so much. More recently, Elon James White (host of This Week In Blackness and Blacking It Up) tweeted something that was concise, comedic, and dead accurate about the police brutality Occupiers are facing: namely, that black people have been living with this reality for, like, ever. Police brutality has escalated, affecting students and faculty. And there've been countless arguments, all over Tumblr and Twitter, about why the 99%-ers should care about race and gender (cue "It's All About Claaaasssss" cards), among other things, like a black musician's warning ignored. We're all in this together, right? We should be fighting the same fight! Except some people have been at it a lot longer, like the folks at Take Back the Capitol.
In the meantime, Canadian Border Services introduced a new pat-down policy specifically for trans folk, the Florida Family Association told advertisers to pull ads from the show "All-American Muslim", Native Americans are speaking out about their forced adoption (in place of residential schools, states used the poverty of NDNs as an excuse to separate the children from their communities), and a Surrey Uni study found that lad mags use the same language as rapists to talk about women, thus normalizing sexual assault. Except, of course, men don't realize it.
In happier news, Rose Lemberg announced the table of contents for The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, and Elizabeth Lameman released her video "The Path Without End," a Native Steampunk endeavour!
Other items of interest:
The Shirt, by Shelly Niro, a photo essay about the colonization of the Americas and the effects on First Nation peoples
A 2007 article about how non-violence aligns with the status quo
A Pinay's declaration to not stand with America during Occupy
A list of colleges with gender-neutral housing policies
A brief bio of Ibn Safi, science fiction writer from Pakistan
A conclusion from scientists stating that most people carry the Neanderthal genome, except for Africans.
Rookie Mag feature on women of colour dressing up stylish even during worse eras
An article on Franz Fanon and how his sentiments about colonialism from about fifty years ago still remain valid
In response to Nisi Shawl's article on queerness in steampunk, Erica "Unwoman" Mulkey shared "Lady In Waiting", a song she sang with Escape the Clouds about, what else, lesbian ladies in waiting.
Wafrica, a fashion line combining African and Japanese styles.
Go Halal Planet! A travel guide for Muslims ^_^
Have a happy week ahead!
To start, some calls for submissions and other time-sensitive things:
Call for papers: Doctor Who and Race: An Anthology. Deadline: December 15.
Call for papers on The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies (link to PDF), a conference from May 3 - 5, 2012. Deadline: Dec 19
(Well, yeah, I know it cuts close, but hope spring eternal...)
Call for stories! JoSelle Vanderhooft, editor for both Steam-Powered anthologies and other cool lesbian anthos, has a call for gay ghost stories! Deadline: Jan 15
Call for papers on Techno-Orientalism in Science Fiction Film, Media and Literature. Deadline: March 15
OK, now onto some news:
Here are some Occupy Wall Street things, starting from the original declaration and the working draft of the Principles of Solidarity. Even then, there were already criticisms, because today tech enables us to access a wide font of knowledge, so we SHOULD be able to see patterns of behaviour, like this letter to anti-war activists about racism in the movement, and the struggles of POC on the ground to get heard and have to deliver Racism 101s (to people who ought to know better!).
Not to say it's been completely unproductive: People have been taking advantage of the Occupy energy to revitalize old fights, like this one in Austin over tent cities and raise issues of colonization that Native Americans still suffer under (here's a brief history of Manhattan Island's name). And people have been pointing out this re-occurring pattern at other Occupy sites too.
Given patterns of racism in the criminal system, and how USians made a big deal over losing Steve Jobs but not Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, a civil rights leader or even Derrick Bell, a Civil Rights lawyer who gave up his professorship at Harvard to protest its unfair hiring practices, it's no surprise that such injustices carry over to affect other movements, like Slutwalk, where white women thought it'd be okay to appropriate a slur directed specifically at black women for some "larger point about women's status". Cue white feminists missing the clue and out comes the bingo card on how they discredit women of color, conveniently ignoring how women of colour will likely have things worse. Again, NOT! NEW! (look when this shit has been said since 1969...)
After this I just quit compiling links because there was so much. More recently, Elon James White (host of This Week In Blackness and Blacking It Up) tweeted something that was concise, comedic, and dead accurate about the police brutality Occupiers are facing: namely, that black people have been living with this reality for, like, ever. Police brutality has escalated, affecting students and faculty. And there've been countless arguments, all over Tumblr and Twitter, about why the 99%-ers should care about race and gender (cue "It's All About Claaaasssss" cards), among other things, like a black musician's warning ignored. We're all in this together, right? We should be fighting the same fight! Except some people have been at it a lot longer, like the folks at Take Back the Capitol.
In the meantime, Canadian Border Services introduced a new pat-down policy specifically for trans folk, the Florida Family Association told advertisers to pull ads from the show "All-American Muslim", Native Americans are speaking out about their forced adoption (in place of residential schools, states used the poverty of NDNs as an excuse to separate the children from their communities), and a Surrey Uni study found that lad mags use the same language as rapists to talk about women, thus normalizing sexual assault. Except, of course, men don't realize it.
In happier news, Rose Lemberg announced the table of contents for The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, and Elizabeth Lameman released her video "The Path Without End," a Native Steampunk endeavour!
Other items of interest:
The Shirt, by Shelly Niro, a photo essay about the colonization of the Americas and the effects on First Nation peoples
A 2007 article about how non-violence aligns with the status quo
A Pinay's declaration to not stand with America during Occupy
A list of colleges with gender-neutral housing policies
A brief bio of Ibn Safi, science fiction writer from Pakistan
A conclusion from scientists stating that most people carry the Neanderthal genome, except for Africans.
Rookie Mag feature on women of colour dressing up stylish even during worse eras
An article on Franz Fanon and how his sentiments about colonialism from about fifty years ago still remain valid
In response to Nisi Shawl's article on queerness in steampunk, Erica "Unwoman" Mulkey shared "Lady In Waiting", a song she sang with Escape the Clouds about, what else, lesbian ladies in waiting.
Wafrica, a fashion line combining African and Japanese styles.
Go Halal Planet! A travel guide for Muslims ^_^
Have a happy week ahead!
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Date: 2011-12-11 08:18 pm (UTC)I think I only hit "thighs" on the bingo card. /inordinately pleased! Probably really punchy at this point!
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