Internet Readalong
May. 6th, 2011 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
effex* ProPublica has a bunch of articles up about bin Laden, including Your Weekend Wrap-up of the Doubts, Debates, and New Details of the Bin Laden Raid, Role of Torture in Finding Bin Laden: What We Actually Know, Revisiting the Very First, Very Wrong Reports on Bin Laden’s Death, and the Bin Laden Reading Guide: How to Cut Through the Coverage. Al Jazeera also has a comprehensive Spotlight up.
*cleolinda and Boing Boing both have post about tornado damage in the USian southeast and what you can do to help.
* Feminism FOR REAL explores what has led us to the existence of “feminism”, who gets to decide what it is, and why. With stories that make the walls of academia come tumbling down, it deals head-on with the conflicts of what feminism means in theory as opposed to real life, the frustrations of trying to relate to definitions of feminism that never fit no matter how much you try to change yourself to fit them, and the anger of changing a system while being in the system yourself. I can't wait until I've got the spare cash to buy it.
There's been some fail regarding it in the mainstream Feminist blogosphere, particularly at Feministe; Jessica Yee guest blogs about it on Racialicious.
* On Colorlines: Teen Moms Look for Support, But Find Only Shame.
*gyzym has a great essay up on bisexuality and the damaging myths surrounding it.
* Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day!!! NPR's Monkey See has a guide for the perplexed.
* If there's one thing Fringe has taught me (aside from 'SCIENCE, it's magic'), it's that Astrid Farnsworth is awesome.
* Never meet your (white, male, writer) heroes. Dammit, Moffat.
All the Community squee has me making pitiful want noises. I have got to catch up this weekend.
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cleolinda and Boing Boing both have post about tornado damage in the USian southeast and what you can do to help.* Feminism FOR REAL explores what has led us to the existence of “feminism”, who gets to decide what it is, and why. With stories that make the walls of academia come tumbling down, it deals head-on with the conflicts of what feminism means in theory as opposed to real life, the frustrations of trying to relate to definitions of feminism that never fit no matter how much you try to change yourself to fit them, and the anger of changing a system while being in the system yourself. I can't wait until I've got the spare cash to buy it.
There's been some fail regarding it in the mainstream Feminist blogosphere, particularly at Feministe; Jessica Yee guest blogs about it on Racialicious.
* On Colorlines: Teen Moms Look for Support, But Find Only Shame.
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gyzym has a great essay up on bisexuality and the damaging myths surrounding it.* Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day!!! NPR's Monkey See has a guide for the perplexed.
* If there's one thing Fringe has taught me (aside from 'SCIENCE, it's magic'), it's that Astrid Farnsworth is awesome.
* Never meet your (white, male, writer) heroes. Dammit, Moffat.
All the Community squee has me making pitiful want noises. I have got to catch up this weekend.
