Sunday Linkfest!
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jhameiaHey folks! This is going to be the last Sunday Linkfest in a while - my schedule for the next month, let me show you it before we dig into links, because I like to overshare like that:
- Today: Get my stuff out into friend's places (thank youauroranine & trouble!!!) leaving my apartment an empty place except for a bed, modem, and luggage.
- Monday and Tuesday: Clean the place up.
- Wednesday: Return my keys to the landlord, the modem to Aliant. I hie off tocastusalbuscor's place for the night.
- Thursday: I fly to Newark! To meetdmp and Lucretia! And then to meet other fen! And it will be awesome! And Lucretia and dmp and I drive down to Piscataway, and yay!
- Friday: STEAMPUNK WORLD'S FAIR BEGINS!
- Saturday:dmp and I host Social Issues in Steampunk roundtable.
- Sunday: We then present Steam Around the World. I think we're staying somewhere else that night.
- Monday: Lucretia wakes up really early to get me to the train station where I spent the next day chugging across the states to Chicago. From there, I catch a train out to Milwaukee, and bus down to Stevens Point.
- And I hang out there for the next several days, and I think on the 25th, my hostess drives me to Portage, where I will meet Kerry from Steam Century, who will get me into Madison for WISCON! (Well, we're not entirely sure yet, but I think that's how it'll go.)
- Unfortunately I won't be around very long for the last day, as my flight back into Halifax leaves on the afternoon of Sunday 31st.
- My dad and I go up to Cape Breton on June 2 and 3, and we're in Halifax for June 4 and 5, and June 6 we get a U-Haul, and it's off onto the Ontarian trail. ... Which I have yet to book hotel rooms for.
Sunday linkspamming will resume once I'm safely ensconced in Malaysia.
OK, that's enough talking about me, here are links:
First, Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2010. Massive massive linkspam about disability, how people with disabilities / disabled people go about their daily lives, institutional problems that make life hard for PWD, and other such stories.
From my Tumblr dashboard:
meloukhia comments on individual versus systemic racism.
zuky on how he realized the extent of racism towards non-whites.
abby jean shares how fucked up law school is.
From Womanist Musings:
What I'm Not Teaching My Children - Renee's son faces racism... at the tender age of 9.
Silence is Justice Delayed -sparkindarkness explains how silence means complicity.
What is the Proper Expression of Fear for a Man? - Max Reddick wants to know, because he did not scream when he saw that garden snake.
On Blogging and Theft - since Renee makes much-needed income off pageclicks, it would be respectful to click-through to her pages rather than read them somewhere else.
From Racialicious:
Newfoundland and the Myth of Land Discovery - in other words, deconstructing shitty ad copy that erases the colonization and genocide of Canadian Aboriginals.
Black Responses to the Arizona Immigration Law - Great collection of links included.
From Feministe:
Next Top Troll, last roundup for the first round! Make sure you got 'em all!
“For we are all one people created betzelem Elohim, in the image of God.” A rabbinical student delivers a senior sermon challenging homophobia in Judaism.
From Geek Feminism:
Beginning a Feminist Journey - Help a guy out in learn how to live as a feminist.
Feminists Do Things Wrong - Critiquing Puzzlebots, even though it's awesome, and accepting that yes, sometimes we do fuck up.
Facebook is a Feminist Issue. Seriously, what the fucking fuck, Facebook. Even Google Buzz didn't fail so hard. Is there an alternative? If you're unsure of the problem, here's a list of things you should know about Facebook. Be careful on there, folks.
Cycads is back for a bit! And she has some killer essays to share:
Of Sartorial Choices and Oppression - on the burqa ban in Belgium and France.
How Colonialism Created 'Religion' - a fascinating look at how colonialism and Orientalism affected colonized regions way of viewing religions, even their own.
From FWD/Forward:
abby jean wants to know what's your take on fake bus stops near mental institutions.
Anna has words for MS Magazine! And what words they are!
The World SF Blog brings us a two-parter: On Writing for Two Cultures and its followup, American Authours vs. Foreign Authours.
seperis on how irritating it is to hear "change is generational / incremental / inevitable, so be patient".
Teachers with Foreign Accents Banned in Schools. WTF?
Five Myths that Hurt Intersex People
Restructure! Study shows that white people lack empathy for brown people.
But make sure you follow up with Choptensils' Science of Oppression: A Basic Understanding of Variables.
helen78 on the mockery of foreign languages by English speakers.
A Dating Site for Apple Fans
Roman Polanski wants fair treatment! Poor Roman Polanski!
Talulah Mankiller has a very interesting observation: How come nobody notices all these serial killers are white?
Question Transphobia relays the horrendous treatment of a trans woman by police who wouldn't have treated her that way if they had been dealing with a nice white lady.
Over at Shakesville, an open thread on the UK election, along with a very nice reader that explains how elections work on that charming little island, where polling stations are inaccessible to some voters.
The Harpies take on a Mansplainer on the subject of the burqa ban in France, with a link to Muslimah Media Watch's take on the issue, in which sight is privileged.
A Critical Fashion Lover's Basic Guide to Cultural Appropriation
This Stereotype Affects You Too.
Egypt Today: In Word and Deed, debating the Sunnah.
Arizona Sheriff says he won't enforce new law.
Lovely story on how the Internet helped get a woman stuck at Schipol Airport into Nova Scotia for her daughter's graduation.
Failure to Protect: The Crisis in America's Family Courts
An interesting couple of quotes on pro-Israel bias.
Because so much of this is depressing, I'll end with the non-depressing ones:
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity says, Girls ask to be raped when they attend frat parties? WE DON'T THINK SO, ALEX KNEPPER, STOP BEING A DOUCHE.
Korean Artist Kim Joon's photography project involving body painting huge corporate logos NSFW.
Linux development kinda resembles E. Coli virus.
Couch Cushion Architecture: A Critical Analysis
sqbr does a discussion of disability in science fiction.
the_future_modernes has an AWESOME ROUNDUP OF ROCKERS WHO ARE WOMEN AND NOT WHITE. COMMENTS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Jehanzeb Dar is an awesome Muslim blogger. I've seen him on Racialicious before but his whole blog just needs linking to.
Happy Sunday!
- Today: Get my stuff out into friend's places (thank you
auroranine & trouble!!!) leaving my apartment an empty place except for a bed, modem, and luggage.- Monday and Tuesday: Clean the place up.
- Wednesday: Return my keys to the landlord, the modem to Aliant. I hie off to
castusalbuscor's place for the night.- Thursday: I fly to Newark! To meet
dmp and Lucretia! And then to meet other fen! And it will be awesome! And Lucretia and dmp and I drive down to Piscataway, and yay!- Friday: STEAMPUNK WORLD'S FAIR BEGINS!
- Saturday:
dmp and I host Social Issues in Steampunk roundtable.- Sunday: We then present Steam Around the World. I think we're staying somewhere else that night.
- Monday: Lucretia wakes up really early to get me to the train station where I spent the next day chugging across the states to Chicago. From there, I catch a train out to Milwaukee, and bus down to Stevens Point.
- And I hang out there for the next several days, and I think on the 25th, my hostess drives me to Portage, where I will meet Kerry from Steam Century, who will get me into Madison for WISCON! (Well, we're not entirely sure yet, but I think that's how it'll go.)
- Unfortunately I won't be around very long for the last day, as my flight back into Halifax leaves on the afternoon of Sunday 31st.
- My dad and I go up to Cape Breton on June 2 and 3, and we're in Halifax for June 4 and 5, and June 6 we get a U-Haul, and it's off onto the Ontarian trail. ... Which I have yet to book hotel rooms for.
Sunday linkspamming will resume once I'm safely ensconced in Malaysia.
OK, that's enough talking about me, here are links:
First, Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2010. Massive massive linkspam about disability, how people with disabilities / disabled people go about their daily lives, institutional problems that make life hard for PWD, and other such stories.
From my Tumblr dashboard:
meloukhia comments on individual versus systemic racism.zuky on how he realized the extent of racism towards non-whites.
abby jean shares how fucked up law school is.
From Womanist Musings:
What I'm Not Teaching My Children - Renee's son faces racism... at the tender age of 9.
Silence is Justice Delayed -
sparkindarkness explains how silence means complicity.What is the Proper Expression of Fear for a Man? - Max Reddick wants to know, because he did not scream when he saw that garden snake.
On Blogging and Theft - since Renee makes much-needed income off pageclicks, it would be respectful to click-through to her pages rather than read them somewhere else.
From Racialicious:
Newfoundland and the Myth of Land Discovery - in other words, deconstructing shitty ad copy that erases the colonization and genocide of Canadian Aboriginals.
Black Responses to the Arizona Immigration Law - Great collection of links included.
From Feministe:
Next Top Troll, last roundup for the first round! Make sure you got 'em all!
“For we are all one people created betzelem Elohim, in the image of God.” A rabbinical student delivers a senior sermon challenging homophobia in Judaism.
From Geek Feminism:
Beginning a Feminist Journey - Help a guy out in learn how to live as a feminist.
Feminists Do Things Wrong - Critiquing Puzzlebots, even though it's awesome, and accepting that yes, sometimes we do fuck up.
Facebook is a Feminist Issue. Seriously, what the fucking fuck, Facebook. Even Google Buzz didn't fail so hard. Is there an alternative? If you're unsure of the problem, here's a list of things you should know about Facebook. Be careful on there, folks.
Cycads is back for a bit! And she has some killer essays to share:
Of Sartorial Choices and Oppression - on the burqa ban in Belgium and France.
How Colonialism Created 'Religion' - a fascinating look at how colonialism and Orientalism affected colonized regions way of viewing religions, even their own.
From FWD/Forward:
abby jean wants to know what's your take on fake bus stops near mental institutions.
Anna has words for MS Magazine! And what words they are!
The World SF Blog brings us a two-parter: On Writing for Two Cultures and its followup, American Authours vs. Foreign Authours.
seperis on how irritating it is to hear "change is generational / incremental / inevitable, so be patient".Teachers with Foreign Accents Banned in Schools. WTF?
Five Myths that Hurt Intersex People
Restructure! Study shows that white people lack empathy for brown people.
But make sure you follow up with Choptensils' Science of Oppression: A Basic Understanding of Variables.
helen78 on the mockery of foreign languages by English speakers.A Dating Site for Apple Fans
Roman Polanski wants fair treatment! Poor Roman Polanski!
Talulah Mankiller has a very interesting observation: How come nobody notices all these serial killers are white?
Question Transphobia relays the horrendous treatment of a trans woman by police who wouldn't have treated her that way if they had been dealing with a nice white lady.
Over at Shakesville, an open thread on the UK election, along with a very nice reader that explains how elections work on that charming little island, where polling stations are inaccessible to some voters.
The Harpies take on a Mansplainer on the subject of the burqa ban in France, with a link to Muslimah Media Watch's take on the issue, in which sight is privileged.
A Critical Fashion Lover's Basic Guide to Cultural Appropriation
This Stereotype Affects You Too.
Egypt Today: In Word and Deed, debating the Sunnah.
Arizona Sheriff says he won't enforce new law.
Lovely story on how the Internet helped get a woman stuck at Schipol Airport into Nova Scotia for her daughter's graduation.
Failure to Protect: The Crisis in America's Family Courts
An interesting couple of quotes on pro-Israel bias.
Because so much of this is depressing, I'll end with the non-depressing ones:
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity says, Girls ask to be raped when they attend frat parties? WE DON'T THINK SO, ALEX KNEPPER, STOP BEING A DOUCHE.
Korean Artist Kim Joon's photography project involving body painting huge corporate logos NSFW.
Linux development kinda resembles E. Coli virus.
Couch Cushion Architecture: A Critical Analysis
sqbr does a discussion of disability in science fiction.the_future_modernes has an AWESOME ROUNDUP OF ROCKERS WHO ARE WOMEN AND NOT WHITE. COMMENTS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.Jehanzeb Dar is an awesome Muslim blogger. I've seen him on Racialicious before but his whole blog just needs linking to.
Happy Sunday!