January 2012
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What A Piece of Work: Queer Verse →
An evening of contemporary Australian poets presenting new, recent and developing works.
Our poets include acclaimed and multi-published poet and author Peter Rose, also editor of Australian Book Review; Margaret Vandeleur, a master of the short piece, and author of the novel The Catch; the superb young poet Lia Incognita; the multi-award-winning Maria Zajkowski; queer crip activist and...
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BEING SOBER ON SURVIVAL/INVASION DAY IN AUSTRALIA
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siriuslydeep:
I don’t really drink alcohol. For heaps of reasons. But I definately won’t be drinking on Invasion/Survival Day this year. I guess I hope to be one less Anglo/white persyn putting money into/supporting this booze-fueled day of false nationalism. Getting drunk can make people less aware of their behaviour, and more prone to aggression and violence. Energetically...
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Indian couple have children taken away by... →
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jonathan-cunningham:
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them.
Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter eight months ago after authorities branded their behaviour inappropriate.
The drastic measure led...
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jiggit:
The reason I haven’t reblogged the Chinese Redbud Woman post is because the translation annoys me. The ‘紫荆’ in ‘紫荆侠’ is defined as ‘cercis’ in my go-to online dictionary, for which I will grant ‘Chinese redbud’, but the ‘侠’ in ‘紫荆侠’?
That doesn’t mean ‘woman’, that means ‘hero’.
More specifically, it is the same ‘侠’ as in wuxia. Whenever you see a person introduced as ‘[given...
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The success of “District 9” has paved the way for... →
wildunicornherd:
Zoo City (an adaptation of Lauren Beukes’s book), Tok Tokkie and The Windmill are all South African projects; I dunno about the Who Fears Death movie, which is based off a book by a Nigerian-American author, has an American producer and Kenyan director, and is set in far-future Sudan.
Via io9.
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Bad malay joke from my malay friend
jhameia:
horusporus:
jhameia:
maybethings:
milodrums:
WHAT DO YOU CALL A TUNA INSIDE A CHICKEN? … … … … … AYAM BRAND TUNA
Just for that, I’mma ask you this.
Which is quieter, bread or coffee?
Coffee. Because Bread Talk, but kopi tiam.
TERRIBLE PEOPLE
HAHAHAHA WOULD YOU LIKE A COUPLE MORE???
1. Q: kenapa ayam suka Shakespeare?
A: Sebab ada iambic pentameter!
2. Q: Binatang...
December 2011
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od,
torayot:
kavitiya:
anonymous asked:
is a white person eating Chinese/Indian/Thai food cultural appropriation? Serious question.
i think there are a lot of problems with the way food from non-white places / cultures is described in these all-encompassing generalized terms, when it’s often a lot more complicated. i think that all-encompassing terms (“chinese food,” “indian food,” “mexican...
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Why Praising Effort is Better than Praising... →
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brainscience:
“In her own research, Dweck has shown that these mindsets have important practical implications. Her most famous study, conducted in twelve different New York City schools along with Claudia Mueller, involved giving more than 400 fifth graders a relatively easy test consisting of nonverbal puzzles. After the children finished the test, the researchers told...
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