January 2010
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“The internet is not a medium: it is a whole new media environment which requires...”
– Untangling the net: the scope of content caught by mandatory internet filtering | Australian Policy Online Synopsis, and link for full report of how mandatory internet filtering in Austalia may impact various types of material being published online. Notes that currently 68% sites on the blacklist...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“What’s great about how our beauty oppression operates is white women can still...”
– Snarkysmachine - Black Women Need Not Apply @ Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose (via tiredofbeingignored) (via oscillating) Agreed, and how white women respond to having this pointed out to them for the first time is revealing about what people understand beauty to mean beyond “hotness”.
Jan 26th
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“I’m a slut because i’ll wear shorts and a tank...
bloodythumbs:vegansweetie:chaosworld:I’m a schlut. Read. Think how perfect this is for clarifying that lots of slurs are plain in-group/out-group cheap shots. See how many people have liked this. Remember that tumblr is mainly young users. Feel glad that high school was ages ago.
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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“Within the celebration of the erotic in all our endeavours, my work becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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“Other ways to not account for (racial) privilege, or, at least, do it badly?...”
– Mimi Nguyen, it’s (not) a white world, hey. This entire article is GOLD. If I wanted to quote my fave bits I’d quote 90% of the article. As a zine enthusiast I’ve often come across the punk/anarchy side of it, and felt some of the Western-centricness offputting - mainly in the implication that if...
Jan 23rd
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“I don’t know how to write but I would like to say beautiful things and I don’t...”
– Situationists (via spectacleofsilence)
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“Often people cry because they find things just too beautiful. What makes them...”
–  Elena Poniatowska, Lilus Kikus and Other Stories (via heathermarie)
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Jan 21st
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“The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in...”
– orhan pamuk (snow) (via quellequaintrelle)
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what...”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History (via cassket)
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write...”
–  Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa (via mkarmstr)
Jan 20th
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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write...”
–  Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa (via mkarmstr)
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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“I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and...”
– Audre Lorde, “ZAMI: A New Spelling of My Name” (via thegang) (via noteasybeingred)
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th