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As a friend of mine often says, ‘awareness is not action,’ and simply being aware of something doesn’t translate into action. […] More critically, I’m going to interrogate the claim that raising awareness is necessary or serves an important function; I’d argue that if all you’re doing is raising awareness, you really aren’t doing very much for the cause, especially when it happens in a limited environment like that of a gallery or institution, where attendees are probably already aware.
This ain’t Livin’ - AN EASY SOLUTION TO PRISON OVERCROWDING: LET PRISONERS OUT
Early release is also an important component of prison
reform, which requires rethinking the purpose of prisons. Such facilities are
primarily positioned as houses of punishment, with a side of protecting society
from the wicked evils of those inside. Approaching the prison system as
reformative rather than punitive opens the door to providing training and
career opportunities in prisons, and to using good conduct credits in an
effective and efficient system. Prisoners can earn their way to early release through
good conduct, creating a performance incentive within the system that
encourages people to seek out opportunities as they become available.
The Feminist Crunk Collective - Asking for Sex: What Do You Do When the Guy Says No?
Of late, I’ve had more than a few homegirls tell me about the negative reactions that they have gotten from men they were casually involved with, when they tried to prioritize sex in the interaction. Apparently, even when these brothers weren’t all that interested in a relationship, they took it as a serious blow to the ego, to find out that sisters just wanted to engage them for their bodies and sexual talents.
And in the classic fashion of those with privilege, they played the victim, changed the rules, and refused to give the thing they had the power to give. In this case, sex.
Dances with Fat – Speak for Yourself Alton Brown
There seems to be a pressure on celebrities who’ve lost weight to then claim that their lives before the weight loss were awful (despite the fact that they had their own television shows, were Grammy winners, Oscar winners, pop stars and famous in a way that millions of people want to be but very few actually are.) Many times this life improvement has nothing to do with the change in body size, but is because they have, (at least temporarily) moved out of an oppressed class.
Tiger Beatdown People in Glass Closets: Anderson Cooper and Straight Responses to Coming Out
What Sedgwick means is
that to be closeted is only meaningful by its relation to heterosexual
supremacy, heterosexual “normality.” Coming out, which only occurs in the first
person, is a double statement – “I am [GLBTQ]” and “I am not [heterosexual
and/or cis].” To not make this statement is to be very often, perhaps always,
taken for heterosexual, because of what queer theorists like Sedgwick call
heteronormativity. […] So when heterosexuals ask, “why does Anderson
Cooper have to come out as gay,” I reply:“because
you do not have to come out as heterosexual.” […] So
when heterosexuals ask, “Why did it take so long for him to come out,” I reply
with a question of my own: “why did it take
you so long to make him feel safe enough to do so?”
Womanist Musings - Lessons I Teach My Children
My son has learned about racism through his
lived experience. I have taught him about slavery, jim crow and the civil
rights movement. What I don't want him to believe is that this is the
worst evil ever perpetuated by humanity. I want him to understand that
the true evil is "othering". People have a tendency to engage
in oppression olympics as though there is ever such a thing as a good
oppression. The truth of the matter is that anytime someone's humanity is
denied it is an injustice. […] The fight for justice cannot be only about
ending our own oppression but oppression period.
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