Social Justice
“politically correct”?
Last night at the dance club a friend expressed that he was uncomfortable at another gay bar where a 60-year-old man showed up in a dog collar, calling it “sad.” I started asking questions about why he was uncomfortable, noting that this may well be liberating for this person, and that it seemed unfair to [...]
notes from the interblags: link dump
• Via Theresa, article on local tv taking advantage of newspapers failing. Check out Theresa’s commentary as well.
• The MSM are discussing that meme going around Facebook: 25 “Random” Things… Time, WaPo, NY Times.
• It’s weird having a President who’s authoring opinions in newspapers again.
• Michael Bérubé retook the lit subject GRE. Pretty interesting.
• I guess some [...]
the need for alliance building: fighting racism and homophobia
A friend of mine is working on a zine about queer politics and has asked me to write something. Below the cut is the draft I have so far — pretty rough, but a start. Related to this, today I got invited on Facebook to Gays on Strike (link will probably only work if you’re [...]
post election thoughts: morning in America
cross-posted
As I listened to NPR this morning, I heard Representative Lewis’s acceptance speech, where he talked about Obama’s win, rather than his own, and Jesse Jackson’s reaction as well. I teared up a little, thinking about how monumental this election is being seen as. I wonder what the effects will be. I think it’s a [...]
the problem with engineering ethics
My friend Luke is working on his M.A. thesis in applied ethics. It’s on ethics in engineering, and while doing some web research, he came across Texas State University professor Karl Stephen’s blog, where he argues that same-sex marriage is bad for engineering. Barf:
I’m going to go out on a limb here. But I’m sure [...]
white privilege: how it’s used to divide and conquer the working class
Via Meagan from a few months ago, this Tim Wise video on the historical and current implications of white privilege, and how it’s used to divide white working class folks from people of color (so that white workers identify with the white elite instead of with their siblings of color):
An Open Letter to My White LGBT Siblings
Printed today in the OSU Barometer:
This letter will be angry. I won’t apologize for any vitriol or confrontation here. I don’t believe that we can have honest public discussions without being confrontational.
My anger comes from hearing, with dismay, about a party last weekend themed “Cowboys and Indians.”
I don’t know a lot about this party, other [...]
notes from the interblags: just some links
I’m going to have to give up on writing on some of these things, though I’ve wanted to. Some tabs that have been left open on my browser over the last month or so:
• “The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to White ‘Anti-Racists’” by Kil Ja Kim at ChickenBones: A Journal
• Being [...]
page 123 meme
This has been circulating the blogs:
The rules of engagement are as follows:
a) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
b) Find page 123.
c) Find the first 5 sentences and read them.
d) Post the next 3 sentences.
But the fact that there are those who will exploit such a critique is not reason enough to [...]
banished: 60 years of making your hometown white
Chuck Tryon reminds us to watch Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings, a PBS Documentary that starts airing on February 19. The film documents the actions of white folk in various counties in the United States that expelled African Americans between 1864 and 1923. PBS offers an interactive map about these counties and some resources for discussions [...]
