January 2012
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“To be a successful community manager, you have to live a double life of empathy...”
– http://theantisocialmedia.com/anti-social-media/community-managers-are-psychopaths/
This quote contains so much truth. (Article is ablelist though. Thumbs down on that.)
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I just need to scream about this somewhere.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
I knew this would happen, but I don’t know if I can handle it. I’m already fucking reaching my limit.
As Arkh sees more eyes, there is more misinformation and more bullshit.
More white people fucking bawwing about how they’re not included. Fuck you, don’t care, and guess what? You don’t get to be good guys. Though one of you will be a “nice guy”, but I think you know...
December 2011
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Whoops.
Ack. A few old blog posts were cross-posted to Tumblr. Clearly there are a few idiosyncrasies with my Wordpress to Tumblr plugin that I need to figure out.
Sorry if I accidentally spammed your Dashboard. >_<;;
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UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception
UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception is a fun follow-up to UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves. Gamers who enjoy cinematic action narratives and UNCHARTED fans will probably enjoy it. The plot in UNCHARTED 3 is not as intriguing as the previous two installments, the action is mostly familiar, but it still delivers solidly awesome game play and an entertaining cinema-like game experience.
General...
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Evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals, only... →
sanityscraps:
liquornspice:
thenoobyorker:
verbalresistance:
Leipzig - An international team of scientists have successfully sequenced the Neanderthal genome, and the evidence shows that humans in Europe, Asia and Papua New Guinea carry Neanderthal genes - while African peoples are 100 percent human.
(via BBC: Neanderthal genes ‘survive in us’)
An international team led by scientists...
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Literally, IRL.: The Wage Gap and White Privilege →
lavender-labia:
iamateenagefeminist:
I’m very tired of hearing that women only make 77 cents on the male’s dollar. It’s not a correct statistic. It should read: White women only make 77 cents on the white man’s dollar.
That’s the real statistic.
Not all women are white. WOMEN don’t make 77 cents on the dollar, WHITE WOMEN do.
It’s important to remember.
Because every time we repeat that 77...
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“The math is the math. You can’t lower current (tax) rates and raise revenue...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, responding to Republican charges that he is “fixated” on “raising the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans,” on 60 Minutes.
This whole thing, summarized so simply and yet the conservative element in these United States continues to pretend not to understand the sheer,...
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“We need to acknowledge that a WOC balances the identities of “woman” and “of...”
– White Feminists: It’s Time to Put Up Or Shut Up on Race « Radically Queer (via cornellwocc)
And also remember that WOC is a political term that is intended to denote being non-white as an umbrella, but was more importantly intended as an act of solidarity between various non-white women. And...
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“This is why I personally care about diversity: it’s the canary in the coal mine...”
– Eric Reis, “Racism and Meritocracy” (via unlockingtheclubhouse)
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“I never want to discuss cinema in a leaden and academic way, but what other way...”
– http://www.mirrorfilm.org/2011/12/02/this-is-the-problem-writing-about-film/
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November 2011
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Esoterica: An open letter to racist, not racists. →
nudiemuse:
Dear you,
Yes you. I know you are an awesome open minded person. You love everyone no matter what (unless of course they are really icky), you know things! You read the news. You do protests. You talk about social justice. You are a crusader for all the right things. You are…
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October 2011
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An Open Letter on the Idea of Geek Cred
postcardsfromspace:
Following up on this whole saga:
Dear Fellow Geeks,
No one is hurting you when they wear superhero t-shirts without memorizing every title the character has appeared in. They’re expressing enthusiasm—novice enthusiasm, but enthusiasm nonetheless—for something you care deeply about and have done your damnedest to evangelize. That they don’t have the same degree of geek...
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PAX Valkyrie: No Flat Girls: How Allies are Born →
paxvalkyrie:
This is a story about gamer culture, casual sexism, the silence of friends, and its fallout - more or less in that order. Firstly, context. I’m a recent graduate working as a game designer for a social games startup in New York City, and I identify strongly with other students and alumni who…
A must-read story about casual sexism in gaming communities and amongst game...
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“The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video...”
– Ground Zeros Slave Graves
(via howtobenoladarling)
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September 2011
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Neat: I Got Linked by Zen Habits
One of my blog posts totally got linked by one of the most popular minimalism bloggers.
August 2011
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“Minorities are typically less than 18% of the population, but they seem to get...”
– http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/08/02/fear-of-a-black-spider-man/ (via mostlyhazel)
“WHY SHOULD WHITE CHILDREN NOT HAVE A COMIC BOOK HERO THAT THEY CAN IDENTIFY WITH?”
“WHY SHOULD WHITE CHILDREN NOT HAVE A COMIC BOOK HERO THAT THEY CAN IDENTIFY WITH?”
How someone wrote this with a straight face,...
July 2011
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Morgane Richardson: My Big (Feminist) Family →
shelbyknox:
morganerichardson:
The past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster. For those of you who haven’t been bombarded by my insistent pleas for funding, here’s the (shortened) scoop:
I got accepted to the UN Mandated University For Peace in their Gender and Peace Building program this winter. Despite my…
If it’s at all within your reach, give a little (or even better, a lot!)...
June 2011
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“Ladies and gentlemen, America was a great country before 1965”
– Rick Santorum
Yeah, if you were white, America was off the hook…
…the white man’s Coke was colder
Did you know that German Nazi prisoners of war were treated with more respect than Japanese Americans during World War II? Look it up…while you’re doing that look up “sundown towns”, too…
...
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May 2011
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Looking for Feminist POC for Panel at GeekGirlCon
Twitter met with limited success over the past couple weeks, so I’m trying Tumblr. Signal boosts will be much appreciated. :-)
The Project
I am trying to put together a panel of feminist/womanist people of colour to talk about POC issues in geek media and culture this October at GeekGirlCon in Seattle. This panel would focus on the perspectives and opinions of feminist people of colour as...
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April 2011
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Jay's Other Stuff: The two big news stories this... →
jsmooth995:
The two big news stories this week have been:
A) A young couple being exalted and celebrated and treated as more worthy & special than all the rest of us, for no reason but the family they were born into, or are marrying into.
and
B) A man who started from nothing, yet pulled himself up to the highest of heights and became an inspiration to millions..who through a lifetime...
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Watchjhameia:
tithenai:
seawitchery:
I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.
biancavirina:
CLICK THE SQUARES.
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.
THIS THIS THIS THIS!
So beautiful. And deeply addictive.
Self-composing music! So cute!
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“As it’s commonly used, “PC” is a deliberately imprecise expression (just try...”
– Kai Chang, “The Greatest Cliché: The Unexamined Propoganda of ‘Political Correctness’” (via wamsise-jamgee)
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DC Women Kicking Ass: Batwoman now set for... →
dcwomenkickingass:
At the DC Icons panel, artist Amy Reeder stated that the Batwoman series is now set for September. At the panel she said the series is being delayed so DC can give the book a “big promotional push” and that she is already working on issue to come out “next year.”
The Batwoman series has had several fits and starts and several creative teams. The current creative team of J.H....
March 2011
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February 2011
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