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new wave feminism: I need help!

Signal boost! Dear Boston-area friends with interesting jobs, can you help her out?

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Alright so I’m teaching a weekly journalism class to a handful of 6th graders in Dorchester (Boston). Its every Wednesday this semester in the 3-6pm time block. As a part of the work we’re doing and projects we’re taking on, I would love for them to work with people in the community that can…

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    • #volunteer
    • #massachusetts
    • #dorchester
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As I watched Cirque parade out first Native American dancers in full regalia, then four (European-lineaged men) dressed as some sort of African or New Guinean hut men, completed with pointy-bushy grass headdresses, then five small Asian women (doing amazing acrobatics, to their credit) dressed like Chinoiserie curios – while a rumpled white “professor” character, a crazy Italianesque Guido clown and a red-faced Spanish bullfighter looked on – the feeling that I was watching something exploitive rather than expressive was hard to shake.

On (in)Appropriate Cultural Appropriation

I love Cirque du Soleil, and the performers in Totem were amazing, but they really went too far with the theme.

Source: artsjournal.com

    • #cultural appropriation
    • #racism
    • #native american
    • #cirque du soleil
    • #totem
    • #culture
    • #circus
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Dear person judging me for taking the elevator up only one floor, I have Multiple Sclerosis; you wouldn't know by looking at me, but walking even short distances is a challenge. Sincerely, not lazy and tired of being judged.

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    • #invisible-disability
    • #dearblankpleaseblank
    • #disability
    • #disabled
    • #ableism
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Well hey, this is pretty freaking terrible.

    • #pcrm
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    • #vegan
    • #veganism
    • #fat shaming
    • #Physicians Commitee for Responsible Medicine
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a life of fragments: [tw ableism, ableist slurs] Conflating violence with mental illness is always harmful.

youarenotyou:

1. If someone with a mental illness does something violent, the mental illness is assumed to be the cause of the violence.

2. If someone without mental illness does something violent, they are assumed to have a mental illness. [Perceived] Sanity is conditional, in this sense.

3. The exception…

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    • #ableism
    • #actual post
    • #aggravation
    • #broken record
    • #mental illness
    • #disability
    • #kyriarchy
    • #101
    • #violence
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PETA, BWVAKTBOOM, and the way not to raise awareness.

warbirdie:

Today I found out about PETA’s BWVAKTBOOM (boyfriend who went vegan and knocked the bottom out of me - website here: http://www.bwvaktboom.com/ ) campaign. I found the commercial, uh, upsetting, and the information on the website not that great either. 

So I wrote them a letter -

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*fuming*

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    • #people for the ethical treatment of animals
    • #vegans
    • #veganism
    • #violence
    • #violence against women
    • #domestic violence
    • #ad campaigns
    • #BWVAKTBOOM
    • #boyfriend who went vegan and knocked the bottom out of me
    • #feminism
    • #activism
    • #how not to raise awareness
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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

togetherforjacksoncountykids:

“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

“My ponytail,” she cried.

“Can I see?” I asked.

She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

“How’s that?” I asked.

She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’

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    • #Gender Identity
    • #Tolerant Schools
    • #Gender Education
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ndpittman:

Apathy goat says, “Meh.”
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ndpittman:

Apathy goat says, “Meh.”

    • #meh
    • #animals
    • #goat
    • #children's book
    • #books
    • #meme
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    • #kelis
    • #milkshake
    • #kitties
    • #cats
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