The following from my comrade Susie Day arrived in my inbox yesterday: KILLER LESBIANS MAULED BY KILLER COURT, MEDIA WOLFPACK Four more Black girls just went bad. Young, 19 to 25; from Newark or surrounding neighborhoods; “troubled” families; having babies while in their teens – you’ve heard it all before. …
Hatshepsut, female king of Egypt Bear with me – this may seem a bit off-topic: Tooth brings lost Egyptian queen to lightJONATHAN WRIGHTREUTERSCAIRO – A single tooth has clinched the identification of an ancient mummy as that of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s most famous queen, who ruled about 3,500 years ago, the …
I believe there’s something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I’m all for violence. It’s the only thing Americans understand. – Gore Vidal (Gay Community News May …
There is an excellent essay about Violence & Abuse Against Indigenous Women & Children up on the wii’nimkiikaa website. Really worth checking out…
Getting play in the media: this article about experiments to make sheep gay or straight, from the Slate; a version of this article also appeared in the Sunday Washington Post. Science will gradually convince us that sexual orientation is innate, more like skin color than character. Condemnation of homosexuality as …
In regards to the latest comments from my comrade Nicolas, regarding the racist “reasonable accommodation debate”… There are two very important questions here. We have to deal with both of them, but in order to not get tripped up i think we need to separate them first. The first question …
The following is a February 5th statement from No One Is Illegal-Montreal on the racist debate currently occurring in Quebec about “reasonable accommodation”… i hope to write more about this tomorrow, providing some context for those of you from other parts of the world who have not been following this, …
Songbirds, a film by Brian Hilllyrics by Simon Armitage, music by Simon BoswellUK / 2005 / Betacam / 62 min / englishContact: Sue Collins, Century Films, Studio 32, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street, Londres SE19DG Angleterre. T: +44-207-378-6106 F: +44-207-407-6711 | sue.collins@centuryfilmsltd.com | www.centuryfilmsltd.com i saw Songbirds somewhat by …
The following is an interesting article about the influence of far right ideology on the Italian working class. I’m reposting it here (i first spotted it on the aut-op-sy list) as the dynamic described by Quadrelli is not limited to the European scene. In North America too, despite some differences …
Goddammit it can be difficult to keep up with this blogging thing… Especially as a sense of propriety really makes me feel like i have to mention some things, even things i may have nothing particularly intelligent to say about. And of course, as i may have mentioned earlier, there …