Sunday Linkfest!
Aug. 16th, 2009 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhameiaIt's back to a relatively normal schedule of writing for me! The Acting Out Edition will be back with the Asian Women Blog Carnival and then it's back to my regular rambling.
From Racialicious earlier this week, California apologizes to Chinese-Americans, for their abominable treatment when building those railways, way back when. Bit late, but better late then never, eh? And Obama depicted as the Joker. Which is almost as heinous as Obama depicted as Hitler.
Linked from Racialicious is an article from Stuff White People Do (which is different from Stuff White People Like) which illustrates a subtle kind of discrimination that even the most well-meaning white people do not notice. This is closely to what is now termed "micro-aggression", wherein a marginalized person feels discriminated against, but they can't overtly point out and say "this is -ist" without sounding "oversensitive".
Laurendhel of Hoyden about Town bring a disturbing, but all-too-often ignored perspective to the euthanasia debate. It should be obvious, but clearly it is not.
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville clearly states for many of us why it's the men we love the most who hurt us the most.
And now, for something completely different: the recordings of one Stephen McGreevy, who recorded "electromagnetic emissions in the very-low-frequency band caused by massive discharges and their after-effects in lightning storms and by the solar wind buffeting the earth's magnetic field, visible as Aurora Borealis and Australis". The entire album can be found here.
In the same vein, here's how Jupiter sounds like, as recorded by NASA's Voyager:
I also found this on Hoyden About Town, where TigTog noted she got it from Colin Mochrie's FB, the latter of who introduced this with "This is what you can do if you apply yourself":
Finally, a delicate sand animation performance which tells a story and comments on war. I've seen such sand animations before, but they're usually just clever. This one moved me to tears:
From Racialicious earlier this week, California apologizes to Chinese-Americans, for their abominable treatment when building those railways, way back when. Bit late, but better late then never, eh? And Obama depicted as the Joker. Which is almost as heinous as Obama depicted as Hitler.
Linked from Racialicious is an article from Stuff White People Do (which is different from Stuff White People Like) which illustrates a subtle kind of discrimination that even the most well-meaning white people do not notice. This is closely to what is now termed "micro-aggression", wherein a marginalized person feels discriminated against, but they can't overtly point out and say "this is -ist" without sounding "oversensitive".
Laurendhel of Hoyden about Town bring a disturbing, but all-too-often ignored perspective to the euthanasia debate. It should be obvious, but clearly it is not.
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville clearly states for many of us why it's the men we love the most who hurt us the most.
And now, for something completely different: the recordings of one Stephen McGreevy, who recorded "electromagnetic emissions in the very-low-frequency band caused by massive discharges and their after-effects in lightning storms and by the solar wind buffeting the earth's magnetic field, visible as Aurora Borealis and Australis". The entire album can be found here.
In the same vein, here's how Jupiter sounds like, as recorded by NASA's Voyager:
I also found this on Hoyden About Town, where TigTog noted she got it from Colin Mochrie's FB, the latter of who introduced this with "This is what you can do if you apply yourself":
Finally, a delicate sand animation performance which tells a story and comments on war. I've seen such sand animations before, but they're usually just clever. This one moved me to tears:
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Date: 2009-08-16 06:03 pm (UTC)I'm trying to take the slash goggle off, really.re: micro-aggression
Date: 2009-08-17 12:02 am (UTC)Gonna share that nao.
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Date: 2009-08-17 04:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-17 04:36 pm (UTC)Right now, self-identified left or progressive communities in Australia, while nowhere near perfect from a sexist point of view, do a huge amount and talk a huge amount about reducing social and practical problems associated with unwanted pregnancy and parenthood. There is plenty of airtime given to contraception, maternity care (again, controversial in parts, but overall public maternity care is available to all), postnatal medical care, maternity leave, child health care, subsidised childcare, public education, and parent support payments of various sorts.
On the other hand, the airtime given to disability issues as a whole is tiny and the airtime given to people with high care needs and how they can be accommodated in the community is non-existent; ableist thinking and language is entrenched; and the pushback when these issues is raised can be pretty dramatic.