October 2010
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Towards a Steampunk Without Steam →
jhameia:
Amal El-Mohtar’s wonderful essay on the challenges of multicultural steampunk that has to work not to depend on the usual trappings!
I want to destroy steampunk.
I want to tear it apart and melt it down and recast it. I want to take your bustles and your fob watches and your monocles and grind them to a fine powder, dust some mahogany furniture with it and ask you, is this...
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almond milk in medieval english cookery →
ourcatastrophe:
In the Middle Ages, animal milk was, of course, not refrigerated, and fresh milk did not stay fresh for long. Most cooks simply did not use much milk as the short shelf-life of the product made it a difficult ingredient to depend upon. Many recipe collections of the time advise that cooks should only rely on milk that comes directly from a cow, something not possible at all...
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crossed genres year two
I’m really excited to (belatedly) announce that my story ‘The Last Rickshaw’ is going to be in Crossed Genres Year Two! You can find the table of contents at the announcement post.
It’s released December 7, and is available for preorder now! I’m excited!
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I will be honest, I have many reasons for disliking Lierre Keith! Here is a new one, as recounted at the Transmeditations Blog (warning: transphobia in the quote):
Blog # 27: Bob Jensen, Lierre Keith et al. : The Rabid, Transphobic Hate-Mongering of the Anti-Pornography Movement
When I told the organizer about this, she reached out to Lierre and they had a discussion via email about this. ...
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wildunicornherd:
yamino:
Exotic, Perilous and Inscrutable: A History of East Asian Portrayals in Comic Covers « The Hooded Utilitarian
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wildunicornherd:
Via Jhameia’s Sunday linkfest, a collection of comics covers featuring Asian people from the 30’s to today. Go, marvel at how far we’ve come.
“Why are...
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Re: The Ten Worst Countries for Women
sheresists:
In response to feminist tumblrs who circulated this article, an article which re-emphasized that women in the Global South (or ethnically minoritized women) are the most oppressed (read: victims of their backward cultures) and that women in the Global North (Japan as an exception) live in the most progressive and ‘equal’ conditions, here is the Gender Gap rankings of 2010. Countries...
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Today, the Cairns couple faced with being charged... →
faketrain:
Yesterday my housemate left for Cairns with 11 others from Brisbane to hold vigil for the couple who could be sentenced to a total of 10 years between them in jail for accessing abortion where the legislation in Queensland and doctors in their area had failed to help them.
In Australia abortion is only decriminalised in 2 states (Tasmania, date unknown? and Victoria, 2008) and 1...
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“Another reason why some women have a particularly under-developed sense of...”
– reason #436985 why borders are bullshit
in victoria there’s been growing recognition at the policy level that “why don’t we kick him out?” is a more just response than “why doesn’t she leave?” to violence in the home. but in practice it’s difficult and dangerous to stay in your home and get the...
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“Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) is unhappy - her marriage didn’t work out, her new...”
– Wait, this is seriously what Eat Pray Love is about?
Suck. It. Up.
(via starsgowaltzing)
I will never think of this movie as anything but How Stella Got Her Groove Back for white people, plus extra/bonus commodification grossness, minus Taye Diggs.
(via ilykadamen)
The thing I really can’t...
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