I did a comic about marriage equality…
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Published on May 3, 2013
Watch the full interview with Angela Davis on Democracy Now! athttp://owl.li/kGdcY. The legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis tells Democracy Now! that the FBI’s adding of former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorists List exemplifies a longstanding “racialization” of terrorism in the United States, and an effort to deter the young activists Shakur has inspired today. “When the grandchildren of those who were active in the late ’60s and early ’70s are becoming involved in similar movements today, there is this effort to again terrorize young people by representing such an important figure as Assata Shakur as a terrorist,” Davis says. “Before the Tsarnev brothers were discovered to be the alleged perpetrators [of the Boston Marathon bombings], there was an attempt to present the person who planted the bomb as either a black man or a dark skinned man with a hoodie. This racialization of what is represented as terrorism is an attempt to bring the old-style racism into the conversation with modes of repression in the 21st century.”
In 1998, Democracy Now! aired the audio of Assata Shakur reading her open letter she wrote to Pope John Paul II during his trip to Cuba in 1998 after the FBI asked him to urge her extradition. Listen at https://soundcloud.com/democracynow/a…
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Growing up in a very traditional and conservative Christian area, I had an extra big laugh - or tinge of pain, however you want to look at it - from this one.
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selections from Ancestral, Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree, Blackfoot)
Ancestral explores the idea of heritage through a combination of portraits and self-portraits. Using late 19th century historical images of various Aboriginal men and women, the images were digitally projected onto the subject. The idea is to take historical bodies by inserting them into the present, bringing together old and new, as a way of looking at the past through the present.
TW: Rape
Anon: This might sound like a weird question but I just want to be clear. My boyfriend has a higher sex drive than myself and I tend to turn down sex quite a lot but he is very persistent. Eventually I feel guilt tripped into having sex anyway and just do it. He said that it’s not rape because I don’t physically try to stop him, don’t cry after or try to push him off me, but is it classed as rape since I didn’t want to and felt as though I had to?
FYSE: that can definitely be classified as rape. No one should guilt trip you into sex and you shouldn’t feel obligated. Your partner should take the first no. Being talked into sex is not consent.
If you’re in the West Yorkshire area of the UK you should get yourself to Bradford Baked Zines this week! It’s a pop up shop run by Loosely Bound Collective. It’s full of just amazing zines, I had a lovely bus ride home with lots of new zines to read!
They’ve got LOADS of events going on through the week and are open till 7 every day.
Also, my feminist art collective, Project:BABE have our Becoming Pt. II exhibition there, exciting stuff!
bradfordbakedzines.wordpress.com/
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The Cola Road (2013)
- Even identical genital acts mean very different things to different people.
- To some people, the nimbus of ‘the sexual’ seems scarcely to extend beyond the boundaries of discrete genital acts; to others, it enfolds them loosely or floats virtually free of them.
- Sexuality makes up a large share of the self-perceived identity of some people, a small share for others’.
- Some people spend a lot of time thinking about sex, others little.
- Some people like to have a lot of sex, others little or none.
- Many people have their richest mental/emotional involvement with sexual acts that they don’t do, or even don’t want to do.
- For some people, it is important that sex be embedded in contexts resonant with meaning, narrative, and connectedness with other apsects of their life; for other people, it is important that they not be; to others it doesn’t occur that they might be.
- For some people, the preference for a certain sexual object, act, role, zone, or scenario is so immemorial and durable that it can only be experienced as innate; for others it appears to come late or to feel aleatory or discretionary.
- For some people, the possibility of bad sex is aversive enough that their lives are strongly marked by its avoidance; for others it isn’t.
- For some people, sexuality provides a needed space of heightened discovery and cognitive hyperstimulation. For others, sexuality provides a needed space for routinized habituation and cognitive hiatus.
- Some people like spontaneous sexual scenes, others like highly scripted ones, others like spontaneous-sounding ones that are nonetheless totally precictable.
- Some people’s sexual orientation is intensely marked by autoerotic pleasures and histories - sometimes more so than by any aspect of alloerotic object choice. For others the autoerotic possibility seems secondary or fragile, if it exists at all.
Some people, homo-, hetero-, and bisexual, experience their sexuality as deeply embedded in a matrix of gender meanings and gender differentials. Others of each sexuality do not.” Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
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