December 2011
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Black Youth Project: The Racial Impact of Voter...
The Black Youth Project has a chilling, well-researched report out analyzing the potential impact of voter ID laws in the 2012 elections, with a close look at the impact in six key states under estimated voter suppression effects on turnout:
“These differences relative to 2004 and 2008 levels of turnout could significantly alter the dynamics of the 2012 presidential election. Table 6 shows...
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Circle of 6: free mobile app to prevent dating...
The team behind Circle of 6 are raising money to promote & distribute their iPhone app and develop a Droid version.
It’s a great concept — here’s more background:
Circle of 6 is an iPhone app for college-aged students and their friends to stay close, stay safe, and prevent violence before it happens.
We believe that staying connected to a small group of people is critical...
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“History reveals that the unmasking and over-sexualization of black bodies is a...”
– David J. Leonard & James Braxton Petersen on recent attacks on Michelle Obama and Rihanna: “Each of these instances are distinctly despicable in that they attempt to degrade women’s bodies generally by reaffirming a societal gaze that assigns value to a woman’s humanity based almost...
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“This is life row, one that I also intend to transcend”
– Mumia Abu Jamal in a letter to me from a new prison, where he’s finally in general population… (via dreamhampton1)
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FRIDA Launches First Call for Proposals!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2011-2012
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund mobilizes resources, funds and strengthens the participation and leadership of young feminist activists globally. The goal of The Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA) is to provide accessible, strategic and responsive funding for young feminist-led initiatives, and to strengthen the capacity of young feminist organizations to both leverage their...
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The CPH Foundation: WHAT TRILLION DOLLARS? →
cphfoundation:
December 23, 2011
Last Saturday, Congress sent the president an Omnibus Spending bill giving the Obama Administration more than $1 trillion to spend between now and the end of September, 2012. Several federal departments annual budgets were wrapped up in the massive bill which passed Congress…
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When I preface what I’m about to say by disclosing that I am a survivor of rape, or child sexual abuse—I am not sure what to call “it,” or really, the series of “its” that “it” was and remains—I am already uneasy about the effects of that disclosure. I already want to snatch it back. It’s not just that I don’t know if you will believe me, or that I don’t know what you will do...
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December 21: Sex Workers' Day of Action Against...
Join sex workers and our allies in demanding that Google fund non-judgmental services and harm reduction for sex workers, not Christian missionaries and moralists who campaign against our safety, dignity, and human rights! SWAAY is spearheading the response to Google’s large donations to three morality groups that push for the further criminalization and dehumanization of sex workers, groups...
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“In the United States, there are now more people dying from drug overdoses than...”
– Read more: Preventing Drug Overdose Is Key in Fight Against AIDS, by Roxanne Saucier, December 12, 2011
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The Scholarly Feminist: Archiving with Kate... →
Women of my generation have always been deeply committed to imagining what might be gained by returning, if only provisionally, to the partially completed social transformations of the 1970s and 1980s, and feminism’s “scrap heap” is one site among many where this work is being carried out. That’s what attracts me to the archival question—it’s partially about history but more crucially, the archive...
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“Essentially, I incorporated into my daily life the sense that I might find...”
– From an important piece about the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policies. Spoiler alert: They’re racist and don’t make people feel safer. Worth reading: Why is the NYPD After Me?
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Clean Needles Saved My Life. Now Congress Wants to... →
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.
The provision of clean needles to drug addicts is one of the most effective known interventions in the entire field of public health. Nonetheless, the budget agreement reached this week in Congress reinstates a federal ban, which had been removed in 2009, on funding for such programs.
- This is a really moving article that drives home the reason why today is such a...
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Social worky or social quirky?: Transgender... →
autumn-and-eve:
I found this on an old trans blog I used to contribute to. These are all really awesome little pamphlet-type packets (PDF versions of), with the least amount of problematic language I’ve ever seen.
An Advocay Guide for Trans People and Loved Ones
Real Life Experience -…
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It Happened to Me: I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born... →
Being trans, I’ve grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you’re ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society’s binary system, making them genderqueer.
Regardless, I was born me, and in order to be me, I had to take many...
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“The nonprofit yogaHOPE has been offering yoga classes to women in transitional...”
– Hope and Healing - Amy Karafin, Himalayan Institute
- Local NGO in Cambridge, MA providing women in transitional centers with yoga teaching as a tool for coping, dealing with trauma and managing stress.
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Sir Richard's Condom Company Launches Buy-One,... →
“Looking after your sexual health and helping others at the same time has never been so easy.
Sir Richard’s Condom Company this week launched an online subscription service that discreetly delivers condoms to your doorstep, allowing you to skip those awkward moments at the drugstore. What’s more, for each condom purchased, the company will donate another to a country in the...
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Action alert: keep calling to protect syringe...
Thanks to everyone who has reblogged our syringe exchange action alert — please keep spreading the word and making those phone calls!
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Protect syringe exchange - call Congress today!
This is urgent - advocates went to the Senate this morning and we have heard that negotiations on the annual federal spending bills, including policy riders that would ban syringe exchange funding, are taking place at the highest levels. Syringe exchange may be in danger. We need to get calls to the offices below. Please take a minute to make some calls ASAP while there is still time!!
Please...
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Macy's Fires Employee For Refusing To Let... →
Thank you, Macy’s!
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BreakOUT!/ JJPL Help New Orleans Juvenile... →
NEW ORLEANS- Recently, the Louisiana Department of Human Services and the New Orleans juvenile detention center, the Youth Study Center (YSC), introduced a groundbreaking new policy that is designed to protect the safety and dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth under their supervision. This policy not only oversees the protection of LGBT youth already in the custody of...
dream hampton: “Now that it is clear that Mumia... →
dreamhampton1:
“Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be…
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POZ:
National HIV Awareness Month to Launch July... →
pozmagazine:
The Coalition for National HIV Awareness Month has established July 2012 as National HIV Awareness Month to re-ignite a national discourse on the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to a coalition statement. The coalition also hopes the awareness month will help create broad-scale public…
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““If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life...”
– When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - The Washington Post, 12/5/11
Good article. Read more. How long have kids been saying that standardized tests don’t work? Whether they say it in words or actions, they’re saying it. Kids aren’t standardized, so why should...
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The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes... →
“There is, however, one notable exception – and it’s one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country. That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than...