Religion, culture, values, and Paris. (And Beirut. And Baghdad.) – http://wp.me/p6nAlz-3E
This is a post by a blogger I follow, they expand on the religious element of the tragic events of this week.
Category Archives: Stuff I feel like reblogging
FIFTEEN REASONS WHY THE UK NEEDS FEMINISM
Another post I feel like reblogging, because I think it’s interesting.
- Because if a lecturer shows interest in me, he must fancy me, but if a lecturer shows interest in my male counter part, he must be intellectual.
- Because if I wish to acknowledge myself as a sexual being and not hide my sexuality, I am a slut/dirty/a tramp/easy, and if a boy wishes to express his sexuality in similar ways, he is a hero.
- Because boys are still encouraged to express emotions physically or sexually and are often looked down upon for being able to communicate.
- Because I shouldn’t feel like pretty is a better compliment than intelligent.
- Because I shouldn’t feel like a less powerful person for making the choice to prioritise my career over my love life.
- Because I am still socially expected to marry and take their husbands last name, and many women do, not because they want to, but because they feel they should.
- Because all…
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Fuck Off, Sweetie: The Ultimate Guide to Fierce Femme-inism
A blog post I found that I thought I’d share, because it’s interesting. And the title reminds me of Dr. Who.
“Gender is a universe and we are all stars.” – Lacey Roop
Full disclosure: I am one of the most stereotypically feminine-presenting people you will ever meet. You’ll find me in flowery skirts and winged eyeliner (when I’m not in hiking boots), usually smiling broadly and gushing about one of my passions in life. I could write (and have actually written) theses on the male gaze. I could talk for hours about bell hooks, Virginia Woolf, and Audre Lorde. I could tell you all about the infantilization of women and sexualization of women’s bodies and how each is contributing to rape culture. And yet I still find myself most confident in my favorite little black dress with the plunging neckline and mascara-laden eyelashes.
Especially as a queer-identifying feminist, I have grappled with this stark discrepancy for years. Isn’t my stereotypical gender performance problematic? Is my way of being in the…
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A timely post from ‘Gods and Radicals’ about disability
http://godsandradicals.org/2015/10/02/do-we-act-justly-disability-mental-illness-and-vulnerability/
Gods and Radicals is one of my favourite blogs. I thought this blog post was really important to share.
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My Fabric House Subscription Boxes: A Giveaway!
A chance to win a fabric subscription from My Fabric House.
The link takes you to my crafting blog and from there to the original blog post from Very Berry Handmade. It’s a roundabout way of doing things but it was the only way I could think to share the giveaway on both blogs.
Good evening
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Heresies II: Being and Divinity – http://wp.me/p5MCkF-u4
Love Notes from Freya, 7/28/15
I like this blog, and the occasional ‘Love Notes…’ posts Cara writes. Sometimes they’re just the right thing I need to read at the right time.
Be what you were born to be. Don’t hold back. From the deepest acceptance comes the brightest beauty. Love, Freya
Why Animism and Polytheism are Radical Religions in Capitalist Societies
A good deal of animism and polytheism’s power, as it is expressed in outward form, is that it directly challenges the overculture’s directions to consume and produce for their own sake. Slavoj Žižek notes that products like Coke produce their own perpetual desire. In “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology”, he notes that Coke self-perpetuates by two ways, in that it makes one’s duty to consume and enjoy Coke, and that the consumption of it leads to the thirst that leads a person to want to consume it more. After all, it is a drink, but by its nature it produces further thirst rather than satiating it.
The paradox of Coke is that you are thirsty, you drink it. But, as everyone knows, the more you drink it, the more thirsty you get.
Polytheism demands us to understand that while pleasure, the satiation of thirst, and enjoyment may be side-benefits of…
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The 2.25 Million Hidden Unemployed People Reveals The Stark Truth: There’s No Fucking Jobs
This is well worth reading. Please read the original blog post that I’ve re-bloged before reading my comments. Thanks.
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For those of us on ESA because of mental health conditions it’s a frightening thought that the already meager allowance could be sanctioned if we don’t attend ‘medical treatment’ because obviously we don’t want to get better and go to work if we don’t.I’m being sarcastic.
In January the idea of going to any form of treatment was impossible, purely because I couldn’t leave the house. If a person is that ill how are they expected to go to treatment?
I’ve had CBT in the past; it doesn’t work long term for some people, me included. Why go through the horror again, when long-term professional psychological assessment and treatment would be more appropriate? Because the government can keep the price down if they contract for a fixed number of sessions.
At some point I’ll have to go for an assessment with Maximus to see whether I need to be in the Work Related Activity Group or the Support Group. An employee of the DWP who knows me well said that I really need to get off ESA and into part-time work before then
…because I don’t want you to go through the trauma of the assessment.
Trauma
Before I had to stop working – was forced out of my job by unsympathetic management – I was working on a short term agency contract on the ESA enquiry line. I spoke with so many people who were in dire poverty because their ESA had been sanctioned or paid late. I spoke to people with serious mental health conditions who had been told they were fit for work by Atos despite being unable to leave the house unaccompanied, I spoke to people who were suicidal because they couldn’t deal with everything, because they were in dire poverty, because their lives had so suddenly changed.
The DWP is no longer fit for purpose, it kills people and attaches further stigma to those already stigmatized in our society. There needs to be serious reform, now.
A senior DWP manager has a motivational meltdown on twitter.
According to the latest statistics there are currently 1.84 million unemployed people. There are also 1.3 million people working part time because they cannot find a full time job. Nearly half a million people who are officially employed work less than six hours a week. Over 100,000 so-called employed people are actually on unpaid workfare.
But even this only tells half the truth about the number of under and unemployed people in the UK. There are a staggering 2.25 million people who are ‘economically inactive’ and want a job but who are not included in the unemployment figures. That means the true number of unemployed people, if unemployed is defined as not having a job and wanting one – which is how it should be fucking defined – is over four million.
The reason you never hear of the missing…
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The Tories plan to criminalise the young
News that the Tories wish to place in community work all young people between 18-21 who become unemployed is a new low in the neoliberal attack on us all.
This is a measure that gives credence to the notion that our main political parties are ignoring the youth vote because it doesn’t yield results. As young people ignore the opportunity to vote they are seen as a fresh way to save money and are being treated like dirt. You’d think the parties might actually use this opportunity to embrace them and try to bring them into the fold but that’s not how economics and politics work. They will pay for their alleged apathy. I say alleged because I find that most people under the age of 30 are exceedingly interested in politics but what they’re not interested in is Westminster. In Croydon and across England in 2011 we began…
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Everything Is Better With Dragons 