Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization, and Responsible Allyship – YouTube
Tag: antioppression
Creative Interventions Toolkit | Community Accountability
Creative Interventions Toolkit | Community Accountability
from Billy. “Organizations that deal with domestic violence and sexual assault generally view violence as an individual problem or rely on the police and criminal justice system as a solution. We wanted to turn back to our communities and strengthen community-based systems to resist violence in all of its forms.”
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler
“What their success shows is that the issues they raised—that existing patterns of technological development would lead to social upheaval, and that we needed to guide technological development in directions that did not challenge existing structures of authority—echoed in the corridors of power.”
He Brings It On To Himself Profane Existence
Open Letter to Occupy San Diego | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture
Fannie’s Room: Being Better Allies
Fannie’s Room: Being Better Allies
(1) QUILTBAG. Awesome. (2) “Shorter: It’s important for white people to deal with racism, but more important than that are white people’s feelings.” “Shorter: It’s important for women to be equals, but more important than that are men’s feelings.” “Social justice activism, to me, is based on the premise that people’s feelings are very important, but more important than that is social justice.”
Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark – NYTimes.com
Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark – NYTimes.com
Seems like this could also apply to other discussions about power inequalities and hurt… Racism, misogyny, rape, colonialism…
a life of fragments, “feminists” vs feminists
a life of fragments, “feminists” vs feminists
“Denying these people the title of feminist is denying the history of feminism as a tool of oppression.”