May 2010
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When is Gala Darling going to quit with the racist...
sparklyappolion:
definatalie:
baruchandroll:
And when are we going to start calling her out?
Gala Darling likes to sign her posts, “love letters and feather headdresses”, fully cashing in on this bullshit hipsters in headdresses trend that has become much maligned.
Here is a post on my pal garconniere’s tumblr, where she quotes one comment I made on one of Gala’s posts in February,...
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Designing social change for the rich →
abbyjean:
Vallejo decided to start a competition and invite people from the “developing world” or “third world” to solve problems for people in the “first world.” The Design for the First World competition is focused on four major issues:
1. Low birth rate and aging population 2. Obesity 3. Consumerism 4. Immigration and Anti-immigration
The competition started as a sarcastic...
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Guest post: In defense of (sometimes) dutiful... →
For example, as a teenager when I wanted to go out with my friends, my mother would complain: “Why don’t you just want to stay at home? Do you think in ten years time your friends will be there for you like we will?”
DO WE HAVE THE SAME MOTHER?!
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challyzatb:
“MORE than 25,000 Australians with disabilities will be denied the disability support pension (DSP) and pushed on to the dole over the next three years under tough new rules for ”borderline” cases. In moves to cut the dramatic growth rate in the DSP and compel more people to work if they can, new applicants deemed to have some capacity for work would be rejected on their first...
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Crime Wave – Hishamuddin blames it on “chattering women”
However, he said that the level of street crimes was exaggerated by the continuous chattering that made it seem worse.
“Most victims are women. What do women do? They go to the hairdressers… they chit-chat and suddenly it is everywhere and cause people to fear,” he joked.
i got nothing.
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Italian woman fined for wearing burqa in public →
abbyjean:
Amel Marmouri, 26, was stopped by carabinieri officers in a spot check outside a post office in Novara in northern Italy and given a 500 euro (£431) fine, payable within 90 days. Ben Salah Braim, 36, the woman’s husband and a building worker, said he would respect the regulation, but would have to confine his wife at home since the Koran forbade other men to see her face. “Amel may...
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WHITEWASHING
So, at the awesome Asians Down Under blog we learn:
Davis said the problem in casting Sing as a Chinese-Australian arose when he couldn’t find a 60-year-old Chinese actor to play his father. “Asking Tony to play it as Chinese would not only have been racist and demeaning. It was also financially irrelevant — we could not have afforded the make-up,” he said....
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jhameia:
A concern on appropriate language vs ESL speakers
tiaramerchgirl:
ragingalongborders:
This drives me a bit nuts because it’s so close and yet… it’s not ESL, kids. It’s ELL. ESL means English as a Second Language, which is almost never true. The correct term is ELL, for English Language Learner. Learn it! Love it! Live it!
Depends which country you’re in. “ESL student” is a common...
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it's frustrating and exhausting even to just think...
isabelthespy:
that link i reblogged, about the neurological lack empathy white people have regarding non-white people - self not excepted, i assume - and this isn’t the most important part of that post (which you should read) but i think about this:
When we watch movies and TV shows and read books featuring white protagonists, we have to put ourselves into white people’s shoes to understand the...
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A concern on appropriate language vs ESL speakers
jhameia:
ekswitaj:
tiaramerchgirl:
There are a number of you on Tumblr that regularly advocate for the use of more inclusive and appropriate language when it comes to describing marginalised communities: the differences between “trans man/woman” and “transman/woman”, “racism” vs “racial prejudice”, not using the words “crazy” or “insane” to refer to anything other than a mental disorder, and...
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talking
Hey, I have a formspring. You know. If you’re into that sort of thing.
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April 2010
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fiction: the last rickshaw
My short story, The Last Rickshaw, is up at Crossed Genres. It’s Malaysian Steampunk, HERE IS AN EXCERPT:
Yu drops his passenger off at McCallum Dua and slips the ringgit into his pocket. It’s late, and this far out he’s not sure he can get another fare, and he thinks about going home. It starts to drizzle, and that decides him; he hates riding in the rain. He crosses the road and ...
