February 2012
79 posts
“Yo sueño un país donde tantos talentosos artistas, músicos y danzantes, actores...”
– William Ospina. ¿Dónde está la franja amarilla?
(Un autor que cambio mi forma de comprender a Colombia).
(via mymindgoesblank)
“Femme is defiance. Femme ignores the male gaze & tells patriarchy to fuck...”
– BOSSY FEMME (via clairebearstare)
Holy fuck, Claire’s excerpt of my post has HOW many notes?
(via bossyfemme)
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more on shattered families
I posted a petition a week ago about Felipe Montes, a Mexican immigrant who was deported and separated from his children (click here to look at the information)
Here’s an update from Act Presente:
After hearing from 20,000 of you the process that could have stripped Felipe of his rights to his children was postponed! We have been heard, and as a result we’ve given Felipe’s...
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me: ignores responsibilities and goes on internet
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All Consuming Images
From Stuart Ewen’s “The Dream of Wholeness” on All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
The assembling of a commodity self, this “dream of wholeness,” implies a sense of partialness and fragmentation that resides just beneath the surface. The appeal of style in the twentieth-century cultures cannot be separated from the conditions of the...
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Benkos Bioho
miguelfrancoblog:
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I went to Palenque and saw this statue, It was a great cite to see. Celebrate Latin Black History
“He established the maroon community of San Basilio de Palenque some time in the 16th century. He was betrayed and hanged by the governor of Cartagena in 1619” - Wiki
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Talking about jury duty with a dear friend this morning…
“I was simply going to inform them anyway that I’d rather not fulfill my civic duty for a court system of a state that does not fulfill my right to get married”
And I won’t marry until everyone is guaranteed the liberty to do so.
(sorry babe, tough luck)
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PERMANENTLY STRIPPING A FATHER FROM HIS RIGHTS TO...
Last year, Felipe Montes was deported to Mexico. Now the Allegheny County Department of Social Services wants to terminate his rights to his three U.S. citizen children. Felipe’s children are just three of thousands that are being permanently separated from their parents by a broken immigration system and a patchwork of child welfare systems.
If we put enough pressure on the Allegheny County...
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The Cultural Construction of Emotions
From Catherine A. Lutz’s enthography Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll & Their Challenge to Western Theory
At first blush, nothing might appear more natural and hence less cultural than emotions, nothing more private hence less amenable to public scrutiny, nothing more inchoate and less compatible with the logos of social science. These views can be...
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Women Closer to Combat
NPR Host Rachel Martin speaks with former Army sergeant Kayla Williams about the ramifications of the change.
Click HERE to listen to this segment.
MARTIN: I want to ask you about something that GOP presidential nominee Rick Santorum said just this past week. He said that allowing women into combat units could put that unit in what he called a, quote, “compromising situation” where...
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“‘Spending’ was the Victorian vernacular term for orgasm.”
– David Bennet : Getting the Id to Go Shopping: Psychoanalysis, Advertising, Barbie Dolls, and the Invention of the Consumer Unconscious
Simply delightful to see that sentence. I can imagine how conversations went…
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Watch“There’s a new short documentary online (we’ve embedded it at the end of this post), which covers the “paredes robadas” (stolen walls) incident. This may be old news for those familiar with the scene, but for anyone who hasn’t heard about it, the story of how street art in Buenos Aires was appropriated by a conceptual artist is an unusual one.
Almost a year has passed since something very...
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YESSSSS
I just got this e-mail from my university just now. YES!
Congratulations! Your proposal submitted to the 2011 Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference has been accepted. We had a number of excellent submissions this year and anticipate a highly stimulating program. We are looking forward to your oral presentation. GSURC will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2012....
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shove it, stranger that i will never see again but...
Most women experience sexual harassment in public spaces as frequently as they step foot outside their homes. I am not excluding men from this experience, but it does happen at a disproportionate rate more regularly to women than men. There are many sociocultural reasons for this and I understand that expressions of masculinity and power are unknown to the one exposing their power through cat...
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