In reference to Ferguson...
"As society has become increasingly divided, the police have been forced to perform the function of border control between the excluded classes and the rest, and have consequently adopted (or perhaps revived) authoritarian policing methods previously reserved to the colonies." Mimmoc
(I was linked to it from here)
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"I think that Zuma got a sense of what is coming for him. There is no hiding behind points of order any longer; the “democratic institutions” are no longer bunkers behind which he and his cronies can cower. The EFF may be vessels of populist outrage, they may be ersatz radicals in play-play costumes, they may be big babies screaming for a nipple. But this is what happens when you rule by erasure: you create a vacuum so large that something arrives to fill it." Daily Maverick
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[TW: whorephobia and violence]
"The sex worker killed in Kenilworth was a drug user. She had run away from home. She was working in a neighbourhood that, not long before her murder, had initiated a campaign against sex work called Krap (Kenilworth Residents Against Prostitution)...These residents, and indeed a ward councillor, saw Kleintjie, as she was known, as invisible at best and, at worst, a pest they wanted off their streets. No one saw her as “courageous”. No one saved her life." M&G
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[TW: whorephobia]
With reference to the last post, this is the sort of thing that some Kenilworth residents in Cape Town feel is appropriate to post in public. I am beyond disgusted. People's Post
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“...the prurience and sense of entitlement I see in anti-porn feminists is far greater than the average sex work consumer. And the latter are better at respecting boundaries.” “HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS?: NOTES FROM A FEMALE PORN SCHOLAR.
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The usual reservations about Gladwell apply, but this is interesting. Basically an account of how members of various marginalised ethnic groups in the US have worked their way up into the middle class by way of organised crime. Importantly, they were able to do so primarily through industries that are illegal and so violent, but where the underlying interaction was essentially consensual (selling intoxicants, sex, etc).
He points out that the same mechanism appears to have failed for African Americans, which he attributes to far more stringent policing. He doesn't draw the obvious inference, but it seems unlikely that this is a coincidence. Nixon declared a "war on drugs" at around the same time that African Americans were starting to gain more control of the drug trade. The war on drugs is a war on the black population generally, but also an attempt to dismantle one of the few means of upwards mobility available to a marginalised population. New Yorker
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"There's a much slimmer chance that either of those cops would have patiently listened to the sob story of a drunk brown-skinned man about how he'd ended up on the pavement with his forearm around a white man's neck, and an equally slim chance that they'd have talked to him for a few minutes and sent him on his way and put the white man in the squad car.
Maybe the other guy was in a bad place, too. Maybe he had kids, too. Maybe he had a sad story, too.
I went home. The other guy didn't.
That's white privilege." RogerEbert.com
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"Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any “abuse” came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position." Vanity Fair
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1) State fails to use land, despite massive housing shortage
2) People use land
3) State illegally evicts people from land
4) State shoots people when people resist eviction
Groundup
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"The people you’re talking about may be in the room with you, even if you can’t visually identify them. They should have their experiences respected and reflected.
As a speaker or a source, always ask yourself: “Who is not in this room that should be?”" Sabrina Morgan
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"While faking orgasm narratives reflected themes of wanting to reinforce a partner's sexual skills, strategically ending sexual interactions, and suppressing feelings of abnormality and shame, best orgasm experiences showcased the power of interpersonal connection, the joys of masturbation and other non-penile-vaginal intercourse behaviours, and the significance of ‘transformative embodiment’. Implications for the relative failures of (hetero)sex, particularly in the context of gendered power imbalances, along with the importance of deconstructing the sexually ‘functional’ or ‘dysfunctional’ woman are explored."
(I have the pdf, if anyone wants to read the paper in full) T&F
"As society has become increasingly divided, the police have been forced to perform the function of border control between the excluded classes and the rest, and have consequently adopted (or perhaps revived) authoritarian policing methods previously reserved to the colonies." Mimmoc
(I was linked to it from here)
>>><<<
"I think that Zuma got a sense of what is coming for him. There is no hiding behind points of order any longer; the “democratic institutions” are no longer bunkers behind which he and his cronies can cower. The EFF may be vessels of populist outrage, they may be ersatz radicals in play-play costumes, they may be big babies screaming for a nipple. But this is what happens when you rule by erasure: you create a vacuum so large that something arrives to fill it." Daily Maverick
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[TW: whorephobia and violence]
"The sex worker killed in Kenilworth was a drug user. She had run away from home. She was working in a neighbourhood that, not long before her murder, had initiated a campaign against sex work called Krap (Kenilworth Residents Against Prostitution)...These residents, and indeed a ward councillor, saw Kleintjie, as she was known, as invisible at best and, at worst, a pest they wanted off their streets. No one saw her as “courageous”. No one saved her life." M&G
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[TW: whorephobia]
With reference to the last post, this is the sort of thing that some Kenilworth residents in Cape Town feel is appropriate to post in public. I am beyond disgusted. People's Post
>>><<<
“...the prurience and sense of entitlement I see in anti-porn feminists is far greater than the average sex work consumer. And the latter are better at respecting boundaries.” “HOW DID YOU GET INTO THIS?: NOTES FROM A FEMALE PORN SCHOLAR.
>>><<<
The usual reservations about Gladwell apply, but this is interesting. Basically an account of how members of various marginalised ethnic groups in the US have worked their way up into the middle class by way of organised crime. Importantly, they were able to do so primarily through industries that are illegal and so violent, but where the underlying interaction was essentially consensual (selling intoxicants, sex, etc).
He points out that the same mechanism appears to have failed for African Americans, which he attributes to far more stringent policing. He doesn't draw the obvious inference, but it seems unlikely that this is a coincidence. Nixon declared a "war on drugs" at around the same time that African Americans were starting to gain more control of the drug trade. The war on drugs is a war on the black population generally, but also an attempt to dismantle one of the few means of upwards mobility available to a marginalised population. New Yorker
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"There's a much slimmer chance that either of those cops would have patiently listened to the sob story of a drunk brown-skinned man about how he'd ended up on the pavement with his forearm around a white man's neck, and an equally slim chance that they'd have talked to him for a few minutes and sent him on his way and put the white man in the squad car.
Maybe the other guy was in a bad place, too. Maybe he had kids, too. Maybe he had a sad story, too.
I went home. The other guy didn't.
That's white privilege." RogerEbert.com
>>><<<
"Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any “abuse” came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position." Vanity Fair
>>><<<
1) State fails to use land, despite massive housing shortage
2) People use land
3) State illegally evicts people from land
4) State shoots people when people resist eviction
Groundup
>>><<<
"The people you’re talking about may be in the room with you, even if you can’t visually identify them. They should have their experiences respected and reflected.
As a speaker or a source, always ask yourself: “Who is not in this room that should be?”" Sabrina Morgan
>>><<<
"While faking orgasm narratives reflected themes of wanting to reinforce a partner's sexual skills, strategically ending sexual interactions, and suppressing feelings of abnormality and shame, best orgasm experiences showcased the power of interpersonal connection, the joys of masturbation and other non-penile-vaginal intercourse behaviours, and the significance of ‘transformative embodiment’. Implications for the relative failures of (hetero)sex, particularly in the context of gendered power imbalances, along with the importance of deconstructing the sexually ‘functional’ or ‘dysfunctional’ woman are explored."
(I have the pdf, if anyone wants to read the paper in full) T&F
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