Breakdance Hunx (Market Value Mix) by Kids on TV
Checking out how to blog a Youtube video – this is Kids On TV’s latest… note to self (and others!): doublecheck html afterwards as the first time i did this youtube screwed up the permalink…
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Blue Diamond Society Questions re: New Nepal Constitution
I spotted the following on a mailing list i am on, and i thought it worth reposting here. The new Nepalese constitution represents a radical leap forward for the people of Nepal, yet questions remain about how far the changes will go. Especially of concern is how trans people, queers …
Queers, Imperialism and Homophobia in Iran: Interesting Article from Gay City News
Vienna Protest Against Execution of Queer Teens in Iran The following is a very interesting and thoughtful argument about how queers in the US can best to act in solidarity with their “sexual minority” counterparts in Iran. While i may not be in the same groove as the authors, i …
The International LGBT Human Rights Conference in Montreal
It may be that i am a space cadet, or it may be that so little outreach has been done locally, but i just noticed that there is an “International LGBT Human Rights” conference planned as part of the Outgames happening in Montreal this summer… i only clued into this …
Estee Slaughter Kicked Out of LGBT Festival
QUIT! activists who formed the Estee Slaughter team at LGBT Freedom Day in San Francisco. (QUIT!) The following article is just another reminder as to why i do not normally participate in Queer Pride events… the rightwards turn of the queer community over the past ten years just makes the …
Talking About A Revolution: Reading Richard Day’s Gramsci Is Dead
Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements ISBN 0745321127 Pluto Press 2006 In Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, Richard Day of Queens University argues for a supposedly “new” kind of radical activism, one which is neither revolutionary nor reformist. He describes this …
Anti-Semitism & The Revolutionary Right
The revolutionary white right in North America is built on two beliefs: that white people form an objective biological group superior to all others, and that as a collectivity whites are in a state of perpetual competition with all others. The Hobbesian vision of nature, in which all are at …
Three Forms of Racism?
I have been thinking about racism and anti-fascist activism recently. I have about five Word documents going with various thoughts about this, so i hope to be able to make them semi-coherent and post them over the next little while. At the moment, they’re pretty incoherent, but i’m hoping that …
Caliban And The Witch by Silvia Federici, Reviewed by Kersplebedeb
Caliban and the Witch: Women the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Sylvia Federici, Autonomedia 2004) Reviewed by Karl Kersplebedeb Back in May 2005, at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, i bought a copy of Silvia Federici’s latest book, Caliban and he Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation. Suffice to say, i …
Feminist Economics 101: The first half of Marilyn Waring’s Counting for Nothing
Alright, so as you may notice i have not posted for a couple of days – partly out of mid-week fatigue and partly because i am finding it difficult to figure out exactly what to say about Marilyn Waring’s book Counting For Nothing, which i am now half-way through. …