February 2012
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Harm Reduction Coalition has a new look and a new...
Our new site has all of the great information and resources as before, but with a new easy-to-navigate platform and bright, clear layout. Here are a few highlights:
Homepage slideshow with highlights and exciting updates!
This week, we added a new slide featuring the new CDC report documenting the success of take-home naloxone programs, authored by our very own Eliza Wheeler!
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5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
Scott Morgan, Associate Director, FlexYourRights.org
Whether or not you ever break the law, you should be prepared to protect yourself and your property just in case police become suspicious of you. Let’s take a look at one of the most commonly misunderstood legal situations a citizen can encounter: a police officer asking to search your belongings. Most people automatically give consent...
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Audacia Ray: Things I Once Valued But Now Think... →
audaciaray:
I haven’t blogged step-by-step about all the things that have changed in my brain over the last couple of years with regards to the work and activism I’ve been involved with for the last decade. But things have shifted a lot for me, and hopefully also in how I do my work (forget about intentions,…
Valuable read on reassessing one’s political touchstones when the...
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“Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from...”
– Anthology Call for Submissions • Survivors in Solidarity with Prison Abolition
I’ve written a little bit previously that I hope provides a few strategies for being in solidarity as a survivor, so I’m really glad this is happening on a larger and more intentional scale. Please pass on.
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WHITNEY HOUSTON 1963-2012 →
DREAM HAMPTON TAKES A LOOK AT THE LEGACY, THE LIFE AND THE LOSS OF WHITNEY HOUSTON
- We’ll miss you Whitney xx
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The Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race and... →
The Anna Julia Cooper Program in Gender, Race, and Politics in the South is endowed with the multifaceted mission:
to move beyond the black/white paradigm in the study of race while still paying attention to this historically important divide;
to focus specifically on the social and identity cleavages within racialized communities, specifically the intersections of gender, class, sexuality, and...
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To My Old Master →
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according tonewspapers at the time, he...
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WatchCheck out this amazing project. Really beautiful exploration of sexuality and disability.
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“”Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen...”
– - Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the majority opinion.
Well, that’s good news. In case you haven’t heard, a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional today.
Read more about it.
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“I see a gay male couple walking hand in hand down the street. They also do not...”
– an excerpt from: Opinion - The bearable whiteness of being gayby Rob Smith
Interesting thoughts on the experience of racism within the gay community…and, well, everywhere else too. 