February 21st, 2008
Octavia Butler on leaders
Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
[…]
February 20th, 2008
Laughs
Stuff White People Like
especially
recycling
and
knowing what’s best for poor people
Filed under: Blogroll, blogging, satire, white privilege by Amy's Brain Today
February 16th, 2008
Lesbians, sex and violence
I wanted to expand on a comment I left on this post (warning: explicit sexual/violent images) which refers to comments made in this thread. The bits from that latter-linked thread to which I’m responding, specifically:
“the prevalence of domestic violence in the LGBT community [is] NO DIFFERENT than that in the heterosexual community”
“domestic violence […]
Filed under: feminism as politics, feminist sexuality, lesbian feminism, links, media/culture criticism, personal is political, resistance by Amy's Brain Today
February 15th, 2008
“Antifreeze and cupcakes have a lot in common.”
Old, and kinda fratboy, but worth watching if you need a giggle.
Filed under: fat politics by Amy's Brain Today
We’re not that fragile.
Sandy is all over the myth that the smell of peanuts can kill.
Filed under: cranky, media/culture criticism by Amy's Brain Today
February 13th, 2008
Finally, someone is getting it.
Click for larger image.
Filed under: cranky, fluff and musings by Amy's Brain Today
February 12th, 2008
Barbara Macdonald on aging and death
We never really know the beginning or the middle, until we have lived out an ending and lived on beyond it.
Of course, this time, for me, I am not going to live beyond this ending. The strangeness of that idea comes to me at the most unexpected moments and always with surprise and shock; […]
Filed under: words from women by Amy's Brain Today
February 8th, 2008
More from Stop Porn Culture
“Dear Stop Porn Culture Supporters,
Last month, SPC was contacted by Groupe d’Action pour le Droit (GAD), a non-profit NGO in the Democratic Republic of Congo that advocates for the human rights of children, youth and women affected by sexual violence. They do counseling for survivors of sexual trauma and community education about the issue. The […]
Filed under: activism/organizing, feminism as politics by Amy's Brain Today
February 7th, 2008
Top 10 Things To Say to White People When You First Meet Them
10. How much white are you?
9. I’m part white myself, you know.
8. I learned all your people’s ways in the Boy Scouts.
7. My great-great-grandmother was a full-blooded white-Canadian princess.
6. Funny, you don’t look white.
5. Where’s your powdered wig and knickers?
4. Do you live in a covered wagon?
3. What’s the meaning behind the square dance?
2. What’s […]
