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effexI've skipped a couple weeks and people keep posting things, so this is a long one. Fair warning!
* First out of the bag, #yesGayYA. For those who haven't read it, he original post by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith is here: Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA.cleolinda has the best/most exhaustive coverage I've seen and coffeeandink has a good roundup of pertinent links.
* Related posts not mentioned above include![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
swan_tower's Followup on "Say Yes to Gay YA" and bookshop's YA Publishing & the de-gaying of books.
* Speaking of co-written YA books, while I was typing this up Justine Larbalesteir and Sarah Rees Brennan announced one of their own! It's apparently about girls and female friendship and vampires and it's got a girl of color smack dab in the middle of the cover. I am excite.
Moving on:
* UC at Berkley has a class this semester called Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement that they're broadcasting live on Youtube. Class time is 6-7:30 (PT) on Tuesdays, you can watch it (plus lectures from previous weeks) here.
* On LifeHacker: Eat Like a Foodie at Home, Without Breaking Your Budget. On Discovery's Planet Green: 50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again. (Yep, I'm on another food kick.)
* Via GOOD: A group of Seattle entrepreneurs has come up with one solution to the urban food desert problem, and it doesn't involve adding traditional supermarkets to underserved areas. Their new venture, Stockbox Grocers, is taking the favorite building block of the green-building movement—the shipping container—and adapting it into a miniature food emporium, packed from floor to roof with fresh produce and other staples..
* While we're talking about food and resource (mis)management, East Africa (Somolia in particular) is in the middle of a bad fucking famine. Al Jazeera has a feature: 'The worst crisis I have ever seen'. HuffPo has an article about the food that's being stolen. MSNBC has a list of 'ways to help', though I'm not confident about their selection. Anyone have a link to a list with a little more scrutiny behind it?
~*~
* Pro Publica has an ongoing series of 2012 Presidential Campaign Reading Guides. Most of the major players have already been covered.
* Colorlines has The Definitive Guide to Bigotry in the 2012 Republican Primaries (So Far). It was published August 31st and doesn't include any of the fuckery from the latest GOP debates, but the NYTimes has transcripts if you want them.
* On GOOD: Do Something! Obama's Five Main Proposals for Fixing the Jobs Crisis. On Pro Publica (again, look, it's an excellent resource): Economic Myths: We Separate Fact From Fiction.
* More from Colorlines: Study: White Students More Likely to Win College Scholarships (75% more likely, and no one - who's paying attention, anyway - is surprised) and How the Right Made Racism Sound Fair—and Changed Immigration Politics, which I've marked for later reading.
* The US Supreme Court's issued a temporary stay of execution for Duane Buck (Texas), but the death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis (Georgia) is still in effect. The cases are pretty different (Duane Buck's probably guilty, Troy Anthony Davis' probably not), but they're both victims of a deeply flawed justice system. There are vigils for Davis being held worldwide tonight.
~*~
* Al Jazeera has an in-depth feature Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US. Slacktivist has also been doing a series of posts on Dominionism, though he's failed to tag them. Tisk!
A personal aside - I've been following the spread of Dominion Theology for a couple years, off and on, and it's scary as fuck. It's also personally triggering - I went to a private 'non-denominational' Christian school for grades 8-11 and, while it wasn't as intense as some of these schools can be, I'm still sorting out the damage (they put me years behind in the sciences, if nothing else). It's real, it's a big deal (Uganda, anyone?), and I'd encourage you to pay attention.
* Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit.
Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago. But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up.. Ta-Nehisi Coates has commentary.
* Danny Glover had to personally fund-raise for his upcoming film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture because Hollywood wanted him to add a white hero.
* From![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
inkdot: no shit.
* On top of everything else, DC decided they needed to make Amanda Waller (Amanda Fucking Waller) thin, young, and pretty, with lots of cleavage. More on Racialicious and DC Women Kicking Ass, 'ware body-shaming in the comments.
* Rick Perry is Wrong about everything, including superheroes. Jay Smooth breaks it down:
* On Slacktivist: ‘Being upborne on a great wave’. This observation [the curvature of the sea] — as old as seafaring itself — combined with other evidence such as sun dials and the changing visibility of southern constellations as one headed south, made the roundness of the earth an almost universally acknowledged fact throughout the west since centuries before the birth of Christ. I remember how shocked I was the first time I heard this (in, ha, Stirling's 'Island in the Sea of Time.' At least that book did some good) - people have known the earth was round for how long? Mind blowing!
~*~
* Via ColorLines: Street Etiquette’s Got Love for the Diversity of Black Fashion. Oh my god, the clothes.
* On Wired Science: Trove of Dinosaur Feathers Found in Canadian Amber
(The living bridges of Meghalaya by Rex Features.)
(Ecuadorean Sky by Porter Yates. Click through for a larger version.)
(Lunar Eclipse by Chris Kotsiopoulos. Not photoshopped! Click through for a larger version.
ETA: For The Next Few Days, Portal Is Free! For the computer, and you have to sign up for Steam to get it, but still. Sweet beans.
* First out of the bag, #yesGayYA. For those who haven't read it, he original post by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith is here: Authors Say Agents Try to “Straighten” Gay Characters in YA.
cleolinda has the best/most exhaustive coverage I've seen and coffeeandink has a good roundup of pertinent links.* Related posts not mentioned above include
swan_tower's Followup on "Say Yes to Gay YA" and bookshop's YA Publishing & the de-gaying of books.* Speaking of co-written YA books, while I was typing this up Justine Larbalesteir and Sarah Rees Brennan announced one of their own! It's apparently about girls and female friendship and vampires and it's got a girl of color smack dab in the middle of the cover. I am excite.
Moving on:
* UC at Berkley has a class this semester called Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement that they're broadcasting live on Youtube. Class time is 6-7:30 (PT) on Tuesdays, you can watch it (plus lectures from previous weeks) here.
* On LifeHacker: Eat Like a Foodie at Home, Without Breaking Your Budget. On Discovery's Planet Green: 50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again. (Yep, I'm on another food kick.)
* Via GOOD: A group of Seattle entrepreneurs has come up with one solution to the urban food desert problem, and it doesn't involve adding traditional supermarkets to underserved areas. Their new venture, Stockbox Grocers, is taking the favorite building block of the green-building movement—the shipping container—and adapting it into a miniature food emporium, packed from floor to roof with fresh produce and other staples..
* While we're talking about food and resource (mis)management, East Africa (Somolia in particular) is in the middle of a bad fucking famine. Al Jazeera has a feature: 'The worst crisis I have ever seen'. HuffPo has an article about the food that's being stolen. MSNBC has a list of 'ways to help', though I'm not confident about their selection. Anyone have a link to a list with a little more scrutiny behind it?
~*~
* Pro Publica has an ongoing series of 2012 Presidential Campaign Reading Guides. Most of the major players have already been covered.
* Colorlines has The Definitive Guide to Bigotry in the 2012 Republican Primaries (So Far). It was published August 31st and doesn't include any of the fuckery from the latest GOP debates, but the NYTimes has transcripts if you want them.
* On GOOD: Do Something! Obama's Five Main Proposals for Fixing the Jobs Crisis. On Pro Publica (again, look, it's an excellent resource): Economic Myths: We Separate Fact From Fiction.
* More from Colorlines: Study: White Students More Likely to Win College Scholarships (75% more likely, and no one - who's paying attention, anyway - is surprised) and How the Right Made Racism Sound Fair—and Changed Immigration Politics, which I've marked for later reading.
* The US Supreme Court's issued a temporary stay of execution for Duane Buck (Texas), but the death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis (Georgia) is still in effect. The cases are pretty different (Duane Buck's probably guilty, Troy Anthony Davis' probably not), but they're both victims of a deeply flawed justice system. There are vigils for Davis being held worldwide tonight.
~*~
* Al Jazeera has an in-depth feature Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US. Slacktivist has also been doing a series of posts on Dominionism, though he's failed to tag them. Tisk!
A personal aside - I've been following the spread of Dominion Theology for a couple years, off and on, and it's scary as fuck. It's also personally triggering - I went to a private 'non-denominational' Christian school for grades 8-11 and, while it wasn't as intense as some of these schools can be, I'm still sorting out the damage (they put me years behind in the sciences, if nothing else). It's real, it's a big deal (Uganda, anyone?), and I'd encourage you to pay attention.
* Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit.
Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago. But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me up.. Ta-Nehisi Coates has commentary.
* Danny Glover had to personally fund-raise for his upcoming film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture because Hollywood wanted him to add a white hero.
* From
A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.
[...] His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear. Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.
[...] I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed. I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to. No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to. I guess I just didn’t know. I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.
* On top of everything else, DC decided they needed to make Amanda Waller (Amanda Fucking Waller) thin, young, and pretty, with lots of cleavage. More on Racialicious and DC Women Kicking Ass, 'ware body-shaming in the comments.
* Rick Perry is Wrong about everything, including superheroes. Jay Smooth breaks it down:
* On Slacktivist: ‘Being upborne on a great wave’. This observation [the curvature of the sea] — as old as seafaring itself — combined with other evidence such as sun dials and the changing visibility of southern constellations as one headed south, made the roundness of the earth an almost universally acknowledged fact throughout the west since centuries before the birth of Christ. I remember how shocked I was the first time I heard this (in, ha, Stirling's 'Island in the Sea of Time.' At least that book did some good) - people have known the earth was round for how long? Mind blowing!
~*~
* Via ColorLines: Street Etiquette’s Got Love for the Diversity of Black Fashion. Oh my god, the clothes.
* On Wired Science: Trove of Dinosaur Feathers Found in Canadian Amber
(The living bridges of Meghalaya by Rex Features.)
(Ecuadorean Sky by Porter Yates. Click through for a larger version.)
(Lunar Eclipse by Chris Kotsiopoulos. Not photoshopped! Click through for a larger version.
ETA: For The Next Few Days, Portal Is Free! For the computer, and you have to sign up for Steam to get it, but still. Sweet beans.
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Date: 2011-09-17 06:58 am (UTC)Gorgeous gorgeous pictures to end with.
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Date: 2011-09-19 03:15 pm (UTC)It's been a good week for beautiful photos!
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Date: 2011-10-27 01:19 pm (UTC)I've gone clothes shopping a couple of times with
(Sometimes I get mad at the clothes and the clothing industry, but not now at myself, and I just. I MEAN)
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Date: 2011-09-17 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-19 03:16 pm (UTC)