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"I'm [Asian] and I don't find this offensive."16 comments

uppitybrownwoman wrote 1 month ago: Often I talk about behaviours of privileged people, but right now, I want to talk about people in th … more →

Tags: cut that out, anti-oppression, marginalization, Oppression!

Bullshit.

simplesong wrote 1 month ago: What the fuck has gotten into my family lately?  Well, mostly my grandmother. Everyone else is just … more →

Tags: The, Devil, Bitch, Blog

Silencing The Devil

simplesong wrote 1 month ago: Weird name for a blog, right?  I know. This past week has been pretty hectic.  I’ve started … more →

Tags: My Personal Life, Fire, School, Flames, accelerated, Redwood, The Devil

What is choice or autonomy without options?1 comment

jj wrote 1 month ago: Lots of pathologies limit alternatives.  Certainly, abusive situations can do this when, for exampl … more →

Tags: autonomy, Human Rights

LaVena Johnson3 comments

Jender wrote 2 months ago: It’s been shamefully long time since I mentioned LaVena Johnson, the soldier whose apparent ra … more →

Tags: rape, War, cover up, LaVena Johnson, murder

Disabilities Are Not "Behaviors", Stop the Spread of the Term "Behavioral Health" and Ask Folks With Disabilities What Term THEY Want Used4 comments

hymes wrote 3 months ago: People with intellectual disabilities and their allies succeeded this year in getting the term menta … more →

Tags: mentally ill, ablism, Accountability, Alternatives, Bullies, Civil Rights, "criminalizing mental illness", Disability, Disability Rights

Horrible ballot design5 comments

Jender wrote 4 months ago: Wouldn’t you think by now people would at least *try* to produce ballots that work? Here … more →

Tags: Politics

Virginia to Psychiatric Survivors: Everything About You Without You

hymes wrote 5 months ago: One might think the Virginia Mental Health Planning Council would have heard about a conference on m … more →

Tags: mentally ill, ablism, Accountability, activism, Alternatives, Civil Rights, Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, commitment, Community Service Boards

When knowing is not enough12 comments

profbigk wrote 5 months ago: A recent article articulates the experience of being the recipient of masculine condescension to exp … more →

Tags: Epistemology, Gender

Who knows what's in your mind?2 comments

jj wrote 5 months ago: Or: Is there such a thing as repression?  (from Mixing Memory) A thoughtful student of mind recentl … more →

Tags: Science

The Cover-up of Sonny Bono's Murder

Boulderdash wrote 6 months ago: Full Story Here I may not be very insightful, But I do find it less than delightful That way … more →

Tags: Politics, Scandals, Congress, corruption, Bono, assassination, Sonny, murder, drug trade

Ending Silences2 comments

Jender wrote 6 months ago: There are far too many things that don’t get talked about.  Things that need to be talked abo … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Race, rape, Reproductive Rights

Abortion? No such thing11 comments

Jender wrote 6 months ago: Try ‘post-conception fertility control’.   Women’s Health News writes: entering … more →

Tags: Epistemology, Medicine, Reproductive Rights, Science

The Mad Professor1 comment

jj wrote 6 months ago: Each of us probably knows some of the very eccentric members of the profession.  Perhaps we even  … more →

Tags: Medicine, Science

Silencing and Forced Marriage2 comments

Jender wrote 6 months ago: A deeply depressing story.  12 year old Ruksana complained to UK police when her parents said they … more →

Tags: Domestic Violence, language, Multiculturalism, Race, rape, Religion, sex

Take Back the Tech

jj wrote 7 months ago: This site is about reclaiming ICT (information and communication technologies) to end violence agai … more →

Tags: sex, Human Rights, Race, international feminism, global justice

More Feminism Friday posts: two from Melissa at Shakesville

tigtog wrote 7 months ago: I just left this link in comments to the previous post, but it deserves greater visibility. Feminism … more →

Tags: Feminism Friday, sexism, Social Justice, Feminism, Equality, political unity, Debunking, opportunity, Progressives

Women of Color and the Academy

jj wrote 7 months ago: Campus Lockdown: Women of Color Negotiating the Academic Industrial Complex    The Campus Lockdo … more →

Tags: Bias, Events, Gender, intersectionality, minorities in philosophy, Politics, Race, women in philosophy

Look at the freedom we've brought!4 comments

Jender wrote 8 months ago: An Afghan journalism student has been sentenced to death for downloading a report on women’s r … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Politics, international feminism, Religion, War


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