February 2012
98 posts
People of Color Organize: Gentrifying While Brown... →
peopleofcolor:
I recently moved to the Central District in Seattle. From talking to people, it seems like the CD is where people my age move to if they can’t afford Capitol Hill. I am getting to know my neighborhood. Assessing safe paths to walk at night, figuring out my favorite Ethiopian…
“There is no such thing as a pacifist labor strike. There has never been one in...”
– Boots Riley (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)
BOOTS!
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!: Oh, so those Virginia... →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
So disappointing.
“Del. Bob Marshall’s House Bill 1 would effectively outlaw all Virginia abortions by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite. It passed Tuesday on a vote of 66-32.”
“On a 63-36 vote, the House passed a bill that requires women to have a transvaginal ultrasound before undergoing abortions.”
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
youmightfindyourself:
By CHARLES DUHIGG NY Times, Published: February 16, 2012
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ”
Pole has a master’s degree in...
fuck yeah, women of the rainbow.: Judge calls... →
racismfreeontario:
The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in residential schools was an act of genocide.
Justice Murray Sinclair says the United Nations defines genocide to include…
“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the...”
– http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-nonexistent-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-consequences-of-enthusiastic-consent/ (via 2222222222222222222222)
CHARLES DUHIGG: Well, one of the things that President Obama asked was, is it ever possible to bring back those jobs to the United States, to make iPhones in the U.S.? And what Steve Jobs said was—I think accurately—those jobs are never coming back. And the reason why isn’t just because workers are cheaper in China, although that—they are cheaper in China; it’s because China has established a huge competitive advantage over the U.S. There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can’t replicate. And there’s a system of labor there that allows factories to hire 3,000 people overnight or, as Mike can speak to, create facilities that house 250,000 workers and change them in a couple of hours or a couple of days from one product to another. It’s an amazing, amazing manufacturing capacity that’s grown up overseas—with harsh costs associated with it, but that makes it possible for us to get a brand new iPhone every single year.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, and I wanted to ask you about that capacity, because we hear a lot about the post-industrial society, but in reality, when you’re talking about these plants that have 100,000 workers, they dwarf anything that the old classic River Rouge plant of Henry Ford had created.
CHARLES DUHIGG: That’s exactly right. America lives—might live in a post-industrial society, but we do so because other countries are entering their industrial society, and they’re entering it at a scale, at a speed, at a perfection of production, that was completely undreamed of in the United States in the past. And I’m sure many of your audience, many people, they carry an iPhone in your pocket. It’s a wonderful device. It’s an amazing device. And it exists only really because there is this nation that can produce it so quickly and so efficiently.
“What settler colonialism does is that it sets a ceiling on what the future can...”
– Andrea Smith plenary talk at Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide, Thursday, March 10, 2011 (via zombifuntime)
Yeaaaaaaaah.
“When we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we...”
– Audre Lorde (via hateshiploveship)
People of Color Organize: ‘We Don’t Have Anything... →
peopleofcolor:
The recent surge of media coverage on New York Knicks overnight sensation Jeremy Lin has been an almost Cinderella story (replacing pretty-white-poor-female, with handsome-skilled-Asian-men’s basketball player). And though his success on the court is undoubtedly due to his athletic…
“If we, indeed, tell ourselves stories to live, the children of immigrants find...”
– Jay Caspian King, “Jeremy and Jin” (via jonyang)
“…it should be pointed out that the alternatively “positive” and “negative”...”
– Scott Kurashige, on the simultaneous racist and sexist tweet by Jason Whitlock about Jeremy Lin.
Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of... →
For a lot of queer people who are forced to engage with pop culture, they don’t find a lot there that is really about them. But at the same time, we don’t want to retreat into an avant-garde world where everything has to be identity oriented and identity based, and is just alternative small scale cultural production. We live in a world where popular culture is a kind of currency. And it’s...
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ultramariconeria: Fuck Madonna and her Super Bowl... →
baddominicana:
““I didn’t know about it until I left. I was really surprised. I didn’t know anything about it,” she said. She found out in the elevator on the way out of the venue. “I wasn’t happy about it. I understand it’s punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of…
M.I.A. all the wayyyy. Bad girls do it well.