January 2011
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Coalition would scrap curriculum →
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THE federal Coalition is prepared to scrap the national curriculum and rewrite it if it returns to government.
Opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne said yesterday that he would not sign up to the national curriculum until he was convinced it was better than existing state curriculums.
…Mr Pyne will today accuse curriculum writers of neglecting the contributions of...
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“If a movie has only white characters, it is presumed to be marked in the...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
truth.
(via adailyriot)
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Third World Protest as US Spectator Sport
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zuky:
I’m not a fan of the US cultural habit of turning political turmoil in faraway lands into a gawkworthy spectator sport. I came to this realization in the aftermath of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square, as it gradually dawned on me that sheltered, largely clueless people who had no stake in what was happening had little business pushing their intrusive, hungry gaze into such...
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Don't say rape when you don't mean rape. (TRIGGER... →
There are many things rape is not:
consensual sex
affectionate contact
a bear hug
a tackle
eye contact
an argument
a surprise
overburdening
an athletic loss
a neutral metaphor
There are only a few things rape is:
forcing sex on a person
despoiling a population or place
[a mustard plant or grape residue]
No one rapes your Internet connection, or rapes you in a debate. No one rapes...
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Some multiplicity FAQs
jhameia:
meloukhia:
Since I should not have assumed that Tumblr was aware of multiplicity as a concept. Silly, silly me.
Collective Phenomenon
Astraea Multiple Personality FAQ
This is far from a complete or comprehensive list. There are many approaches to multiplicity and I’m sure people can reblog with more resources. Should they feel so inclined. Which they may not.
I most certainly...
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“[Michel] Gondry also recalled his humorous experience while promoting the film...”
– Apparently Seth Rogen is an ignoramus who can’t use Google to find out how famous his co-star really is in Asia.
This may have been a joke, but it demonstrates just how much damn arrogance white people have about how easily they’re centered in mass media like Hollywood’s. Promotion of the Green...
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Share the Spirit Festival →
ourcatastrophe:
This Australia Day – otherwise known as Survival Day - Australian Indigenous culture and music will be celebrated at the annual Share the Spirit Festival. Presented by Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation and the City of Melbourne, Share the Spirit will showcase some Victoria’s finest Indigenous talent as well as interstate guests all of whom will entertain in the true...
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Making "fetch" happen
rosalarian:
I hear a lot of grammatically-inclined people constantly bemoaning the use of singular “they”. Though there are many grammar scholars who say that singular “they” is a legitimate use of the word, and has been used in such a way throughout the history of the language and by many respected writers, most of the people debating grammar on the internet aren’t grammar scholars and instead...
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Footscray whitewash →
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leonineclaire:
The Strategic Report describes it as the ‘gradual gentrification of Footscray’, and the State Government and Maribyrnong City Council are encouraging the change, allocating $52.1 million towards its renewal as part of the 2030 Transit Cities Program.
Upgrades for Nicholson Street Mall and a new pedestrian bridge at ...
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Tokenism: Why “Almost” Isn’t Enough - Part II «... →
wildunicornherd:
pyrofennec breaks down the skeevy racial politics in R. A. Salvatore’s fiction and the videogame Dragon Age to illustrate the perils of “cardboard bigotry”.
You want to address racism? Great, lovely. Go ahead. But don’t sugarcoat it by making it about amphibious aliens and orcs.
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Santa Barbara to realign sidewalk benches used by... →
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abbyjean:
Cities have tried many ways to move panhandlers and vagrants out of prime shopping districts, but Santa Barbara believes it has a new angle — 90 degrees. Using $50,000 in redevelopment funds, the city is planning to turn 14 benches perpendicular to the State Street storefronts they now face. The idea is to make it more difficult for beggars to establish contact with...
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glamaphonic:
“Political Correctness” is a reactionary term against the loss of privilege.
panasonicyouth:
Laurence Berg, Canada Research Chair for Human Rights, Diversity and Identity, disagrees with the idea that PC language and policies are oppressive. Why? Because he doesn’t really believe that PC policies existed in the first place.
“What [they]’re calling the ‘PC movement’ I would...
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fireofspring:
CROSS-CULTURAL psychiatrists have pointed out that the mental-health ideas we export to the world are rarely unadulterated scientific facts and never culturally neutral. “Western mental-health discourse introduces core components of Western culture, including a theory of human nature, a definition of personhood, a sense of time and memory and a source of moral authority. None...
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Donuts, genocide, and the American dream →
abbyjean:
Most visitors to Los Angeles and the west coast are struck by the number of donut shops, but few know that the vast majority of local donut shops are owned by Cambodian refugees who fled the killing fields of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. This is also the case in many other parts of the west. Through an interesting set of circumstances, Cambodian families got a foothold in the market, then...
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Also, let's not forget Sri Lanka
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littleorphanammo:
Australia, Brazil, and now Sri Lanka is in dire, dire straits
325,000 people are displaced with the death toll at 27 and rising. Many have no access to clean water or food, with a fifth of the countries crops under water. The following agencies are currently providing direct aid to Sri Lanka, please consider donating.
Oxfam Emergency...
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This info dropped into privilegedandgoodlooking's...
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leonineclaire:
privilegedandgoodlooking: ...
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I bought two coloring books
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One is pink and one is blue.
The pink one has pictures of: fairytale scenes, ballerinas, a bride and groom, many animals (mostly farm animals, pets, birds, and sea creatures), sea scenes, flowers, shoes, jewelry, sweets, presents, and hearts.
The blue one has pictures of: emergency vehicles, dinosaurs, trains, construction vehicles, pirate stuff, knight stuff, sports, wild...
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“Individual black people/people of color often describe moments where they...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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