November 2010
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Aspiring extra ‘too brown’ to be a hobbit Got to be white to be a hobbit! Who knew? Certainly not Tolkien:
According to The Complete Guide to Middle-earth “Harfoots” are the most common hobbit and “browner” than other types. “Fallohides”, who settled the Shire, which included Hobbiton, had “fairer skin”.
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Health chief sacked after refusing to stop eating cookie to talk to reporters
Dr Duckett, 60, had been headhunted in 2009 from Australia to be chief executive of the newly-created Alberta Health Services.
But his tenure ended abruptly today after a video went viral of him munching on a cookie as he walked past the media and ignoring their questions except to tell them: “I’m eating my...
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“Only American audiences ask me, “What should I do?” I’m never asked this in...”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 39-40 (via afghanipoppy)
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The pronoun problem: how to say it right →
trannsexualferox:
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transpride:
A handy guide for cis allies and others who may unintentionally have trouble remembering the right pronoun when a friend changes pronouns.
I would never speak for anyone else, but someone asking me what pronoun I prefer to be called makes me think that they really actually care enough about me and my comfort. Especially if they...
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this ain't livin': Transgender Day of Remembrance →
I think today, as I do every day, about my fellow transgender people who didn’t make it through the year, for a wide variety of reasons. The people who died because they could not access health services, ranging from trans women denied care at women’s clinics to trans men dying of conditions they weren’t screened for because of cissexist assumptions about bodies, to trans people who couldn’t...
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“Women at the Darwin detention facility have been waiting 6 months for knickers -...”
– Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (via kathleenjoy)
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if you live in the electorate of gippsland
Australians, do you live in the electorate of Gippsland? Please write to your federal MP, and tell him your thoughts on gay marriage (and that he’s wrong), because:
Mr Chester says he speaks to Gippsland residents regularly and there is little support for gay marriage in the region.
“I don’t need to do a survey to get a sense of where my community sits right now,” he...
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“In the original Batman (1989), District Attorney Harvey Dent was played by Billy...”
– Batman Forever (1995) - Trivia
I’m sensing a theme. A theme of black people not being in this movie. Although Kate says Marlon Wayans could never have been Robin, but he might have made a good Impulse.
(via notemily)
Is that more or less than Chris O’Donnell was Robin?
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I went to the 2010 Animal Activists Forum and I gave a talk! The text of it is up at the Scavenger, and it’s a basic 101 on racism and classism (and very casual, because I wanted it to be super accessible):
Addressing racism and classism in animal rights activism
Historically, in Western animal rights activism, it’s been considered a very white, middle-class movement. There’s an...
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Recommendation letters could cost women jobs,... →
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Rice University professors Michelle Hebl and Randi Martin and graduate student Juan Madera, now an assistant professor at the University of Houston, reviewed 624 letters of recommendation for 194 applicants for eight junior faculty positions at a U.S. university. They found that letter writers conformed to traditional gender schemas when describing...
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Do you ever wonder why there are no French people on the Internet? Here’s a hint: it’s the same reason none of the artists you really admire are blogging or twittering. They are too busy having a beautiful life making art and living art and fucking one another.
I admire bloggers.
You do know that France is an actual place filled...
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“Science fiction stories set in futures where people of colour don’t survive make...”
– restructr!, on Firefly’s 15 Best Chinese Curses (and How to Say them)
I loved Firefly! I really did! In fact, recently I have been thinking about rewatching the series. But, as a young Chinese person, it was the thing that first made me really go “science fiction, what is your problem?”...
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Indigenous applicant not black enough for the job
A YOUNG Aborigine was ”shocked” and ”humiliated” to hear she might not look ”indigenous” enough for a job promoting the Aboriginal employment initiative GenerationOne, founded by the mining entrepreneur Andrew Forrest.
This situation is so much policing. Ugh. UGH. Colourism and ‘not enough’ and...
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