Links: Language and expression
Feb. 8th, 2017 06:42 pmHow to Talk About Race by Natalie Kim. A quick, clear comic.
Malkia Cyril: Net Neutrality Is the Civil Rights Act for the Internet by Mike Ludwig.
Rebel Girls: 33 Badass Women Leading the Resistance (On Twitter) by Carmen Rios. I take issue with some of the descriptions and selected tweets, but still, putting this here for reference.
I feel like one thing the “queer is a slur” crowd overlooks... by Alexandra Erin, via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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About Southerners On New Ground viaelainegrey. A cool organization that came up in the same conversation as the previous link.
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah by Kieryn Darkwater. Somewhat off-theme, but explains a horrifying piece of what happened?!
Malkia Cyril: Net Neutrality Is the Civil Rights Act for the Internet by Mike Ludwig.
In 1965, when the Civil Rights Act was passed, it was passed to ensure, to prevent discrimination in housing and transportation. It was basically the act the ended legal Jim Crow. And net neutrality prevents legal Jim Crow online. It prevents people without means, who are disproportionately people of color, people without wealth, small businesses, independent artists, regular people, it prevents them from having to be tracked into a subpar and inferior internet experience and internet life.
Rebel Girls: 33 Badass Women Leading the Resistance (On Twitter) by Carmen Rios. I take issue with some of the descriptions and selected tweets, but still, putting this here for reference.
I feel like one thing the “queer is a slur” crowd overlooks... by Alexandra Erin, via
tim.If “gay” is trying to appeal to a bigoted admissions board by being smooth and shiny enough to slip in, “queer” is challenging the admissions board to accept or reject you on your own merits as you exist, and challenging the bigoted assumptions that underline the power structure as revealed by this. It’s bypassing the admissions board by creating your own infrastructure for sharing resources and information.
About Southerners On New Ground via
elainegrey. A cool organization that came up in the same conversation as the previous link. Southerners On New Ground (SONG) is a regional Queer Liberation organization made up of people of color, immigrants, undocumented people, people with disabilities, working class and rural and small town, LGBTQ people in the South.
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah by Kieryn Darkwater. Somewhat off-theme, but explains a horrifying piece of what happened?!
Homeschoolers may make up a small portion of students as a whole, but they are loud, have time and can be activated with one email blast.
