Rejecting the Language of the Leviathan
The ugly history of enforcement rhetoric in modern US politics winds its way from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, by way of Bill Clinton. It’s a history of cynical deception and manipulation based on racist fear and violent lust for domination and subjugation, conceived and championed by Republicans but all too often embraced by the [...]
...read moreIM IN UR BLOG OVERPOSTIN UR IMAGEZ
Because you evidently can’t put pictures in comments, I wanted to do a roundup. Post yours and I’ll edit this post to include it! This is my contribution: moar funny pictures This is Felicity’s: moar funny pictures This is gudbuytjane’s: These are chava’s: moar funny pictures moar funny pictures Here is a link to the [...]
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I’m interested in language, as you might have noticed from my last post on pro-life/anti-choice semantics. I have a little series on my blog called Language Matters, where I discuss the significance of language in culture, politics, and progress. (Keep in mind that the word “series” is used loosely here, since I’ve only written two [...]
...read moreHello hello hello hello (c) Prince
Howdy! I’m Nichole and I’ll be guestblogging this week. I hope my contributions will be worth your time and I look forward to any discussions they may bring. Now for the usual, introductory stuff: I am a Southern woman, born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, currently living in Los Angeles, California. New Orleans and the [...]
...read moreWith that, I bid a late farewell.
I am the person who was still making up six exams within three days of her high school graduation. I pushed myself pretty hard these last two weeks, and never quite got to the posts I was planning on writing here. :) And ended up with a couple contentious threads, leading to some, um, not [...]
...read moreDisability Is…?
We had a really good discussion about nondisability. It got derailed, a bit, because it depended on our ability to reasonably define disability. And it’s a subject that has come up in every discussion we’ve had these couple weeks. What is it? I advocate an intentionally overbroad definition of disability. And I definitely see a [...]
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HELLO FRIENDS.
Hello, friends. My name is Ariel and I am very excited to have been invited to guest blog here at Feministe. This is where you can usually find me on the internet: www.interestinginteresting.net and http://www.twitter.com/arielariel. These are some things I do: raise funds for social justice. Go to clown school. Tap dance. Solder. Make tiny [...]
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