When the world is tolerant of Nazis, people die. When people are tolerant of white supremacy, people die. When people tolerate systemic racism because “it doesn’t affect me,” people die. Alexandra Hoekstra-Knight, “ When the world is tolerant of Nazis, people die,” People’s World (via antifainternational)
the straight line from fandom antis to swerf rhetoric to purity culture
freedom-of-fanfic: Got asked for my opinion on this post. Not linking to it because judging from the OP’s posts over the last day they’re just getting increasingly upset about people reblogging to disagree. Kindly don’t harass the OP with this post if you know who they are. (built-in cw: nsfw due to open discussion of … Continue reading the straight line from fandom antis to swerf rhetoric to purity culture
workingitinportland: FUCKIN HELL YEAH FUCK THAT RAPIST MISOGYNIST WHITE SUPREMACIST SON OF A GUN I first read about Marion Sims in Medical Apartheid and he’s burning in hell right now. This article is on NPR, there’s a short column on him in the new Working It as well. OMG YES SIMS WAS HORRIBLE AND SHOULD … Continue reading
patrexes: delco115: patrexes: captaindjwalnut: patrexes: anti-trafficking laws hurt the victims a hell of a lot more than the traffickers, and more often than not forces independent sex workers into trafficking. funny how you treat the people you’re claiming to protect as if we’re expendable. it’s about time that sex workers stand up to these abusive … Continue reading
Sometimes trans people choose some amount of physical ‘de-transitioning’ not because they’re less trans than they thought they were and not because their gender is different from what they thought it was but simply because they came to a point where they absolutely love being transgender and they don’t like the fact that their body … Continue reading
Public Space Privatization and Hostile Architecture
socialistrally: For the past few years there has been a troubling trend in how urban designers decide to deal with public spaces, in this post I want to go over what these things are and what they mean. The first thing I want to go over that’s been becoming more common is the concept of … Continue reading Public Space Privatization and Hostile Architecture
kropotkhristian: Reminder everybody that duckduckgo.com exists and doesn’t track you and doesn’t store your search history. This is good for counter-surveillance reasons, but it also confuses the hell out of advertisers. If you don’t like the search results you get on duckduckgo, you can always search something there and add “!g” to the end of … Continue reading
neuropunk-travesty: neuropunk-travesty: Despite the state of siege imposed by the government, a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people has succeeded, whatever the cost, in reaching different points of the ZAD this Sunday. This afternoon new groups are arriving all the time. Since this morning, the state has done everything possible to break this huge surge … Continue reading
argumate: The earliest factory workers were lacking in what Mokyr & Voth call “discipline capital” — non-cognitive ‘skills’ like punctuality, sobriety, reliability, docility, and pliability. Whether they had been peasants or artisans, early workers were new to industrial work habits and they had a strong preference for autonomous work arrangements. They were accustomed to setting … Continue reading

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