Sunday Linkfest!
Dec. 25th, 2011 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaHello all! It's Sunday! I've been waking up at 1pm for the last few days, maybe in preparation of the 31st where I will have to stay awake very late for NYE shenanigans. Anyway, here are some links for you!
A call for papers for Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics.
Do you believe in a project made for and by queer POC? Then please support the Arkh Project!
Interested in an anthology of spec fic inspired by Filipino mythology? Check out Alternative Alamat! (Editor Paolo Chikiamco also has a review of Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.)
Some seasonal items:
A note from a Chinese restaurant thanks Jews for eating Chinese food on Christmas
"Yes, We Know It's Christmas," say African Musicians as They Finally Record a Response to Band-Aid (this is a satire site, alas, but, it's still hilarious! I encourage you to check out the rest of the site.)
Allison Curval, composer for The Clockwork Dolls, has the entire instrumental collection of the last 4 years for free download until Jan 1. The tracks are demo unmastered tracks, and don't really demonstrate the full power of the album Dramatis Personae, but it's still neat.
After Nnedi received her racist award, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, editor of Innsmouth Free Press, responds. I feel it's really important to note that Moreno-Garcia is a WOC running a Lovecraftian zine.
In more pop culture news, A POC cast for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Agree, disagree?
A Dutch magazine calls Rihanna a n*gg*b*tch, out of ill-informed and deeply-set racism, hides behind "ignorance" (look, scary forrenners, anyone can tell that the N-word is a horrible racist slur just by paying a bit of attention, jeepers). Rihanna responds.
Philip Cheah says something about film festivals in the Third World. I'm not familiar with the film festival circuit, but maybe you are.
In other news, seems the first HIV cases in Africa coincides with polio vaccine testing. Hmmmm.
US Charities buy Kenyan Samburu land. Kenyan Samburu people are evicted. Colonialism continues under the guise of saving wildlife.
This continued colonialism is part of a larger pattern, as 50 years after Franz Fanon's death and his last testimony The Wretched of the Earth, his work remains relevant, even prophetic.
(As an aside, talking about colonialism, here's an archive of film footage from the time of the British Empire.)
TRIGGER WARNING: War photos and data of US soldiers raping Iraqi women emerge. Land of the free and all.
In India, an Indian inventor disrupts the sanitary napkins industry. Basically he invented a way to more cheaply produce sanitary napkins, so women could afford them, and these machines are a lot cheaper so local women could start their own business producing them. I highly highly recommend reading this, and spreading the word. THIS is what people helping people within the limits of capitalism does.
Speaking of capitalism, here's bfp talking about how capitalism operates and why we need to question it. Aaaaand we're back to news in the States.
Six years after Katrina, New Orleans struggles to rebuild infrastructure.
Chimamanda Adichie weighs in on the DSK case.
An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich from a Black Kid who Grew Up in a Poor Neighbourhood.
Global Comment on the Curious silence around a transgender hero... please stop calling Private Manning "Bradley"; her name is Breanna Manning.
POC Organize have an eulogy to SlutWalk.
And commenting on the corporatization of education, "We Are Not Contingent: An Adjunct Manifesto"
Here is a brief biography of Lucy Parsons, a black activist considered "More dangerous than a thousand rioters" for good reason.
Abagond delineates four frames of colour-blind racism.
In lighter things, here's how to send a brick to bulkmailers. Thoughts? I think it's a mean thing to do; would it really create more jobs?
Salon's thing on why women need fat.
Parent Map's alternatives to spanking in discipline... proving to me further that the world needs more people helping out with parenting.
To finish, since this is the last Sunday of the year, here is a selection of online fiction I read and enjoyed from the admittedly very few venues I read on any kind of basis. Some of them I read on my Kobo, buying and downloading issues at random. Some I read when the issue came up. Many of them from 2010... I did some very limited reading of short fiction and poetry this year, since I was so caught up in reading non-fiction and writing on novels, so *cough*
From Stone Telling:
- Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry
- Celestial Celebrities by Meena Kandasamy
From Expanded Horizons:
- The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings: A Series of Poetic Blogs by Keyan Bowes
- The River's Children by Shweta Narayan
From Strange Horizons:
- L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)by Dean Francis Alfar (actually I first read this in the Apex Book of World SF; this story made me miss my bus stop)
- Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions by Saladin Ahmed
(there are a couple more from Strange Horizons I liked but I cannot remember for the life of me what they're called. Haih.)
From Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride by Saladin Ahmed
- The Secret of Pogopolis by Matthew Bey (because seriously, a city in a giant pogo stick, come on)
From Usok, The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende by Elaine Cuyegkeng.
And I re-read Kristin Mandigma's "Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang" last night and it remains amazing to read out loud.
Hope your Christmas is a safe and peaceful one.
A call for papers for Neo-Victorian Networks: Epistemologies, Aesthetics and Ethics.
Do you believe in a project made for and by queer POC? Then please support the Arkh Project!
Interested in an anthology of spec fic inspired by Filipino mythology? Check out Alternative Alamat! (Editor Paolo Chikiamco also has a review of Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward.)
Some seasonal items:
A note from a Chinese restaurant thanks Jews for eating Chinese food on Christmas
"Yes, We Know It's Christmas," say African Musicians as They Finally Record a Response to Band-Aid (this is a satire site, alas, but, it's still hilarious! I encourage you to check out the rest of the site.)
Allison Curval, composer for The Clockwork Dolls, has the entire instrumental collection of the last 4 years for free download until Jan 1. The tracks are demo unmastered tracks, and don't really demonstrate the full power of the album Dramatis Personae, but it's still neat.
After Nnedi received her racist award, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, editor of Innsmouth Free Press, responds. I feel it's really important to note that Moreno-Garcia is a WOC running a Lovecraftian zine.
In more pop culture news, A POC cast for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Agree, disagree?
A Dutch magazine calls Rihanna a n*gg*b*tch, out of ill-informed and deeply-set racism, hides behind "ignorance" (look, scary forrenners, anyone can tell that the N-word is a horrible racist slur just by paying a bit of attention, jeepers). Rihanna responds.
Philip Cheah says something about film festivals in the Third World. I'm not familiar with the film festival circuit, but maybe you are.
In other news, seems the first HIV cases in Africa coincides with polio vaccine testing. Hmmmm.
US Charities buy Kenyan Samburu land. Kenyan Samburu people are evicted. Colonialism continues under the guise of saving wildlife.
This continued colonialism is part of a larger pattern, as 50 years after Franz Fanon's death and his last testimony The Wretched of the Earth, his work remains relevant, even prophetic.
(As an aside, talking about colonialism, here's an archive of film footage from the time of the British Empire.)
TRIGGER WARNING: War photos and data of US soldiers raping Iraqi women emerge. Land of the free and all.
In India, an Indian inventor disrupts the sanitary napkins industry. Basically he invented a way to more cheaply produce sanitary napkins, so women could afford them, and these machines are a lot cheaper so local women could start their own business producing them. I highly highly recommend reading this, and spreading the word. THIS is what people helping people within the limits of capitalism does.
Speaking of capitalism, here's bfp talking about how capitalism operates and why we need to question it. Aaaaand we're back to news in the States.
Six years after Katrina, New Orleans struggles to rebuild infrastructure.
Chimamanda Adichie weighs in on the DSK case.
An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich from a Black Kid who Grew Up in a Poor Neighbourhood.
Global Comment on the Curious silence around a transgender hero... please stop calling Private Manning "Bradley"; her name is Breanna Manning.
POC Organize have an eulogy to SlutWalk.
And commenting on the corporatization of education, "We Are Not Contingent: An Adjunct Manifesto"
Here is a brief biography of Lucy Parsons, a black activist considered "More dangerous than a thousand rioters" for good reason.
Abagond delineates four frames of colour-blind racism.
In lighter things, here's how to send a brick to bulkmailers. Thoughts? I think it's a mean thing to do; would it really create more jobs?
Salon's thing on why women need fat.
Parent Map's alternatives to spanking in discipline... proving to me further that the world needs more people helping out with parenting.
To finish, since this is the last Sunday of the year, here is a selection of online fiction I read and enjoyed from the admittedly very few venues I read on any kind of basis. Some of them I read on my Kobo, buying and downloading issues at random. Some I read when the issue came up. Many of them from 2010... I did some very limited reading of short fiction and poetry this year, since I was so caught up in reading non-fiction and writing on novels, so *cough*
From Stone Telling:
- Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry
- Celestial Celebrities by Meena Kandasamy
From Expanded Horizons:
- The Rumpelstiltskin Retellings: A Series of Poetic Blogs by Keyan Bowes
- The River's Children by Shweta Narayan
From Strange Horizons:
- L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)by Dean Francis Alfar (actually I first read this in the Apex Book of World SF; this story made me miss my bus stop)
- Doctor Diablo Goes Through the Motions by Saladin Ahmed
(there are a couple more from Strange Horizons I liked but I cannot remember for the life of me what they're called. Haih.)
From Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
- Mister Hadj's Sunset Ride by Saladin Ahmed
- The Secret of Pogopolis by Matthew Bey (because seriously, a city in a giant pogo stick, come on)
From Usok, The Widow and the Princess of the Dwende by Elaine Cuyegkeng.
And I re-read Kristin Mandigma's "Excerpt from a Letter by a Socialist-Realist Aswang" last night and it remains amazing to read out loud.
Hope your Christmas is a safe and peaceful one.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-26 02:26 pm (UTC)I know the documentary the person talks about. I am pretty sure it's debunked by now. You may be interested in this article about a new book by a scientist trying to trace the virus from Belgian Congo to the US. It's not the chimpanzee origin of the vaccine but the reusing of needles during polio mass immunisation that did it.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-26 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-28 10:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-28 04:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-26 10:24 am (UTC)Thanks for the links! "Yes we know it's Christmas" is brilliant; expresses why I am uneasy with memes like 'first world problems'. The comment by Philip Cheah on film festivals is excellent. I do feel that the arts and independent film-making world is very Eurocentric, with the exception perhaps for Iran. At first I thought it was because the market is limited, now it seems that the market is ignored.
(By the way, I hope our recent exchange -- and disagreements -- on Tumblr didn't leave too much of a bad aftertaste; I found the conversation very useful in developing a lot of my thoughts on various subjects that I wouldn't really think of otherwise, some of which I may write about on LJ.)
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-26 05:41 pm (UTC)I was wondering about your take on Cheah's article! Felt you would know more about it than I would. And yes, lots of "first world problems" are really.... middle-class problems?
(It was a bit frustrating because it's ground I've covered before, but I do tend to forget to straight-up clarify the US-centrism in such discussions. I found the information you brought up very interesting and I'm always starved for news like that from home.)
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 01:02 am (UTC)I don't think you failed to clarify, but it's not just the US-centrism of discussions, it's an issue I have with the entire umbrella of theories. When it serves to describe, define or prescribe the experiences of a voiceless people but doesn't do so accurately, or privileges one manner of empowerment over another, it doesn't act as a liberator but as an oppressor. It's a lot to be taken on a single offhand remark on anthropology, but it's what really was going at the back of my mind. But that's a topic that deserves a...whole book to deal with.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 03:09 pm (UTC)It is unfortunate that Ms. Munezero's analysis of the Oral Polio Vaccine AIDS "hypothesis"[1] is limited to the sensationalist CBC documentary. There is considerable data refuting that hypothesis, and while there are a great many critiques to be made about how the American and European scientific establishment has treated People of Color within their own nations and in Africa, this is not one of them.
The problems with the hypothesis that Dr. Koproski introduced HIV to Sub-Sarahan Africans in the 1950s are several, and one of which is fatal:
1) Dr. Koproski's research happened in the late 1950s, HIV entered the human population somewhere between 1908 and 1941[2][3][4][5]
2) Testing of samples of Dr. Koproski's vaccine samples proves they were manufactured using monkey, not chimpanzee tissue[6][7][8][9]
3) SIV in the Chimpanzees near where Dr. Koproski was working have been shown not to be the source of HIV[10]
[1] Between the fact that this accusation was first published in Rolling Stone and the fact that I most often find it referenced online on neonazi websites in articles with titles like "How the Jew Gave The World AIDS," I think calling it a "hypothesis" stretches the term just a bit.
[2] Korber B, Muldoon M, Theiler J et al. (2000). "Timing the ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains". Science 288 (5472): 1789–96. doi:10.1126/science.288.5472.1789. PMID 10846155.
[3] Salemi M, Strimmer K, Hall WW et al. (2001). "Dating the common ancestor of SIVcpz and HIV-1 group M and the origin of HIV-1 subtypes using a new method to uncover clock-like molecular evolution". FASEB J. 15 (2): 276–8. doi:10.1096/fj.00-0449fje. PMID 11156935.
[4]Sharp PM, Bailes E, Chaudhuri RR, Rodenburg CM, Santiago MO, Hahn BH (2001). "The origins of acquired immune deficiency syndrome viruses: where and when?". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 356 (1410): 867–876. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.0863. PMC 1088480. PMID 11405934.
[5]Worobey M, Gemmel M, Teuwen DE et al. (October 2008). "Direct evidence of extensive diversity of HIV-1 in Kinshasa by 1960". Nature 455 (7213): 661–4. doi:10.1038/nature07390. PMID 18833279.
[6]Cohen J (2000). "Forensic epidemiology. Vaccine theory of AIDS origins disputed at Royal Society". Science 289 (5486): 1850–1851. doi:10.1126/science.289.5486.1850.
Blancou P, Vartanian J, Christopherson C, Chenciner N, Basilico C, Kwok S, Wain-Hobson S (2001). "Polio vaccine samples not linked to AIDS". Nature 410 (6832): 1045–1046. doi:10.1038/35074171. PMID 11323657.[7]Berry N, Davis C, Jenkins A, Wood D, Minor P, Schild G, Bottiger M, Holmes H, Almond N (2001). "Vaccine safety. Analysis of oral polio vaccine CHAT stocks". Nature 410 (6832): 1046–1047. doi:10.1038/35074176. PMID 11323658.
[8]Rambaut A, Robertson DL, Pybus OG, Peeters M, Holmes EC (2001). "Human immunodeficiency virus. Phylogeny and the origin of HIV-1". Nature 410 (6832): 1047–1048. doi:10.1038/35074179. PMID 11323659.
[9]Poinar H, Kuch M, Pääbo S (2001). "Molecular analyses of oral polio vaccine samples". Science 292 (5517): 743–744. doi:10.1126/science.1058463. PMID 11326104.
[10]Worobey M, Santiago M, Keele B, Ndjango J, Joy J, Labama B, Dhed'A B, Rambaut A, Sharp P, Shaw G, Hahn B (2004). "Origin of AIDS: contaminated polio vaccine theory refuted". Nature 428 (6985): 820–820. doi:10.1038/428820a. PMID 15103367
(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 05:43 pm (UTC)