February 2012
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Individualism versus Systems Behavior: You are not...
Last night, I attended Matriarchy at The RACK Room in Denver, Colorado, at the gracious invitation of the venue’s owners, Jeff and Headmistress Saskia. The event bills itself as:
[O]pen to ALL women (sub, slave, top, mistress, cis, trans, female-identified, etc.) and men wearing their sub, slave or bottom hats.
Men are welcome at the invitation of a female guest, but must come in a...
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“The purpose of having childcare [services available at KinkForAll events]...”
– KFADEN: Notes from planning meetings by Rebecca Crane via the KinkForAll Mailing List
See also:
Denver Anarchist Black Cross: Nurturing Liberation
Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: A Handbook for Radical Parenting Allies
Regeneración Childcare NYC: “child-raising as a form of...
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January 2012
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The BDSM Scene's Whiteness is Classism at Work...
Earlier today, I got into a bit of a tiff in the comments at The Edge of Vanilla, which is the inimitable Tom Allen’s blog. What began as a calling out of some of the racist, sexist, and classist replies to Tracy Clark-Flory’s fantastic interview with anthropology professor Margot Weiss turned into a disagreement with Tom himself. It was at first distressing to me because Tom is one of...
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Over at the Edge of Vanilla, Tom Allen linked to Margot Weiss’s interview on Salon.com about her new book regarding the ways in which the BDSM Scene fails to live up to its own rhetoric of transgression. The comments on his blog, which is primarily read by chastity/orgasm denial enthusiasts, who are themselves a sub-niche of the sex blogging world related to but typically distinct from the...
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To those who hate me, I say hate me hard, for I have found a way to turn your disdain into my fuel. If you want an enemy, I’ll give you a villain. I don’t need to be anyone’s hero; all I need to be is your nightmare.
This was a warning.
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Free Open Society: Dreaming of...
Last week, Ian Mclean launched an exciting new media project called The Free Open Society. In the spirit of Wikipedia, Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street, and many other collective intelligences that have successfully galvanized myriad individual actors, The Free Open Society (FOS) is aiming to, in its own words:
bring together a collective of new media journalists to curate, edit, and disseminate a...
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“For reasons best described as kismet, the phone sex workers and I became good...”
– Sex, Death, and Machinery, or How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis by Allucquére Rosanne Stone
This is beautiful and genius.
The idea of phone sex as data compression is a fascinating one that itself hinges on our receptivity (and desire) to “seek multiplicity,” or apply certain...
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“What is the personal genesis of self-empowerment? Are there invariable, atomic...”
– Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed
May is asking some of the oh so right questions.
(via susanmernit)
Thanks, Susan. :)
Also, to my own readers, do check out Susan’s blog. She has some of the most eclectic mix of hyper-local activism, tech sector ingenuity, anti-oppression inspiration, and...
December 2011
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“[P]olitical motivated firings fit into a much broader pattern in American...”
– This explains so much about the pandemic of elitism within some structureless communities, ironically including anarchist ones.
See also:
“How exactly do conservatives get the masses on-board in the first place?”
Are jobs obsolete?
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“The anarchists’ way of operating was changing our very idea of what politics...”
– Thank You, Anarchists | The Nation
It is very, very good to see this kind of recognition of anarchist principles and methodologies represented correctly in a mainstream publication. The degree to which such a simple idea, such as “no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life...
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WatchSensuality: Within and Beyond Sexuality - KinkForAll Providence (by Emma Gross)
A lot of people think sex mostly has to do with orgasm. I am being educated out of this concept.
Turns out that there’s a lot of sex that doesn’t have to do with orgasm. There’s a lot of leading up to orgasm. And, in fact, you can keep that leading up to orgasm going on for months.
[Laughter.]
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“[T]he repressive police tactics many Americans have come to expect from regimes...”
– Oakland vs. Moscow - An Image Gone Viral, and What It Means | #OWS
See also:
Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper: Militarization is a Mistake
Speech by pepper spray victim at UC Davis: “I was no longer a protester, I was an object”
Once upon a time, a Press badge was respected. Now,...
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So I already had mixed feelings about Mission Control’s bring-a-buddy policy [the PAL system], but I just read one of the most offensively worded possible justifications for having it.
John explained that when sex parties aren’t properly policed, they can attract a bad element — i.e., “dudes in sweatpants who like to...
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lclfizz:
So I already had mixed feelings about Mission Control’s bring-a-buddy policy [the PAL system], but I just read one of the most offensively worded possible justifications for having it.
John explained that when sex parties aren’t properly policed, they can attract a bad element — i.e., “dudes in sweatpants who like to jerk off while watching...
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“If gay marriage is about protecting citizenship, whose citizenship is being...”
– Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy: Why the Gay Rights Movement Is a Sham by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
See also:
For more on assimilationist versus “separatist” political approaches, “Gay Shame and BDSM Pride: Neoliberalism, Privacy, and Sexual...
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““This needs two people,” the man unloading the U-Haul called out. He pushed a...”
– On Being Bondage Furniture « Maybe Maimed but Never Harmed
November 2011
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“For thousands of years, humanity has governed itself by a politic of power that...”
– Kate Bornstein’s Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: Notes for “The Tao of Mitzvah, Sabbath, and Boddhisatva,” by Kate Bornstein
(Bullies are easy to spot. Political bullies are also easy to spot. Karl Rove is one example.)
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“The [law enforcement agency’s] paramilitary bureaucracy and the culture it...”
– Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper: Militarization is a Mistake
See also:
How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police
One Angry Queer’s first-person account defending Occupy Portland from police
US marine defends Occupy Wall Street protesters against police brutality
Facebook thread...
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“[H]ow exactly do conservatives get the masses on-board in the first place?...”
– Conscience of a Radical: Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind” - By Connor Kilpatrick - The eXiled
See also:
For more of the same: Corey Robin interviewed on RHRealtyCast.
For a wonderful illustration of Robin’s key point in action: How to stump anti-choice activists with 1 question.
For...
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“Modern, industrialized, compulsory schooling was to make a sort of surgical...”
– Against School by John Taylor Gatto, September 2003
These are the dots connecting school, a global economy in crisis, crushing student loan debt, and capitalism. The Occupy Wall Street protesters calling to forgive all student debt are mere moderates. They ought to be calling for the total...
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“Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools...”
– Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, circa 1970
See also my motivation for searching out this information.
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People who bear student debt are part of “the indentured educated class” and ought to work to repeal all truancy laws, for such laws criminalize the very essence of learning and growth: personal exploration and discovery. Most people have been inculcated to believe a lie proffered over and over again by the owners of their minds, the self-serving profiteers who control systems of...
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“In an effort to remedy their relative inadequacy in dealing with terrorism on...”
– How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police - Arthur Rizer & Joseph Hartman - National - The Atlantic
See also:
Notes from the Police State
Kelly Schomburg’s Account of NYPD Police Brutality at Occupy Wall Street Protest
CrimethInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective: Seven Myths about...
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WatchHey ZelaMish, I figured out what that building we saw is. No, it’s not Disney Land. :)
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The next plan could be no plan, to be not to have a plan. You could wander, probably for anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months, and let that be the thing you did before the thing you’re going to do.
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“People in societies without money don’t barter, not unless they’re dealing with...”
– (via David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street - Businessweek)
See also:
What Kind of World