I'm pinning my colours to the wall. This sort of nostalgic NIMBYism is the purest of bullshit. Are people seriously arguing that maintaining an utterly obsolete piece of industrial equipment is a more valuable use of this land than new homes? In a city with some of the highest rents in the world? Why are we even hearing the opinion of a dude who directly profits from the area's post-industrial chic as opposed to, say, prospective tenants?
"Jordan Gross owns Oval Space which overlooks the gas holders. He told Time Out: “Not only are the gas works an iconic part of Oval Space but they’re also an iconic part of the whole area. Replacing them with soulless cookie cutter apartments of the kind that are blighting our whole city would be a travesty.”" Dalstonist
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“thanks to the militarization and expansion of the ‘border’ region, 197 million Americans now live within the jurisdiction of US Customs and Border Patrol” Jacobin
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The clitoris and the penis side-by-side. From here
"It’s not that sex work isn’t sexist (or oppressive in all the regular ways). It’s just not special. Thinking that sex work is by nature sexist–and that the rest of the world isn’t, or that in the rest of the world, women can resist sexism but not sex workers–is based in contempt for sex workers." Born Whore
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"One of the most fascinating stories that emerged from the Indian Ocean region, which included Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, was that India had African rulers, notables and chief ministers. This was not the case with African diaspora in any other place..." Scroll
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A brief history of the "umbrella movement" in Hong Kong. Financial Times
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Good article on a project to help young women and girls who are often engaged in 'survival' sex work. Notice that at no point does it suggest that criminalising transactional sex will help them. What they need is an alternative means of securing basic necessities. Voice of Africa
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"The report found that many women and girls do not attend clinics until the latter stages of pregnancy because they have been led to believe an HIV test is compulsory. In the report, some women who did attend clinics described how their HIV status could be revealed through negligence, inconsiderate processes and even workplace gossip." Guardian
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"One of the hardest parts of coming to grips with the depth and breadth of the patriarchy is recognizing that there are no exceptions. Maybe you didn’t, personally, do anything wrong, but you were still born into a power structure that gave you unjust rewards. The system — whether it’s the patriarchy or white supremacy or capitalism — does not offer special exemptions for individuals with good intentions. And that should make you mad: The fact is that even though you know better, and are truly a male feminist, you’re still stuck being the bad guy. You can’t opt out of the privileges you inherited at birth. Or, as my (male) feminist friend once put it, “I’m not one of the good ones and neither are you and neither is anyone, FYI.”" NY Mag
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".. the biggest problem with the consent between Ana and Christian [in 50 Shades of Grey] is that it doesn’t exist in the rest of the relationship, only in relation to sex. Christian never hears Ana’s clear ‘no’ about him buying her gifts, following her on holiday, and getting involved in her work. Also both characters continually attempt to pressure, persuade or cajole the other into being what they want them to be: a submissive in Ana’s case, and a loving husband in Christian’s case. This is despite both stating very clearly that this is not what they want, several times over." Rewriting the Rules
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"It was not just anarchists but young Italian factory workers – complete with their sideburns – who first expressed the idea that liberation involves a fight against work itself. Today what the Italian autonomists said rhetorically in the 1970s has become reality: the whole of society is a factory. The struggle for social justice takes place no longer just amid lines of machinery, but in places such as the Focus E15 occupation by single mums and the Sex Worker Open University projects in London and Glasgow." Guardian
"Jordan Gross owns Oval Space which overlooks the gas holders. He told Time Out: “Not only are the gas works an iconic part of Oval Space but they’re also an iconic part of the whole area. Replacing them with soulless cookie cutter apartments of the kind that are blighting our whole city would be a travesty.”" Dalstonist
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“thanks to the militarization and expansion of the ‘border’ region, 197 million Americans now live within the jurisdiction of US Customs and Border Patrol” Jacobin
>>><<<
The clitoris and the penis side-by-side. From here
>>><<<
"It’s not that sex work isn’t sexist (or oppressive in all the regular ways). It’s just not special. Thinking that sex work is by nature sexist–and that the rest of the world isn’t, or that in the rest of the world, women can resist sexism but not sex workers–is based in contempt for sex workers." Born Whore
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"One of the most fascinating stories that emerged from the Indian Ocean region, which included Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, was that India had African rulers, notables and chief ministers. This was not the case with African diaspora in any other place..." Scroll
>>><<<
A brief history of the "umbrella movement" in Hong Kong. Financial Times
>>><<<
Good article on a project to help young women and girls who are often engaged in 'survival' sex work. Notice that at no point does it suggest that criminalising transactional sex will help them. What they need is an alternative means of securing basic necessities. Voice of Africa
>>><<<
"The report found that many women and girls do not attend clinics until the latter stages of pregnancy because they have been led to believe an HIV test is compulsory. In the report, some women who did attend clinics described how their HIV status could be revealed through negligence, inconsiderate processes and even workplace gossip." Guardian
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"One of the hardest parts of coming to grips with the depth and breadth of the patriarchy is recognizing that there are no exceptions. Maybe you didn’t, personally, do anything wrong, but you were still born into a power structure that gave you unjust rewards. The system — whether it’s the patriarchy or white supremacy or capitalism — does not offer special exemptions for individuals with good intentions. And that should make you mad: The fact is that even though you know better, and are truly a male feminist, you’re still stuck being the bad guy. You can’t opt out of the privileges you inherited at birth. Or, as my (male) feminist friend once put it, “I’m not one of the good ones and neither are you and neither is anyone, FYI.”" NY Mag
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".. the biggest problem with the consent between Ana and Christian [in 50 Shades of Grey] is that it doesn’t exist in the rest of the relationship, only in relation to sex. Christian never hears Ana’s clear ‘no’ about him buying her gifts, following her on holiday, and getting involved in her work. Also both characters continually attempt to pressure, persuade or cajole the other into being what they want them to be: a submissive in Ana’s case, and a loving husband in Christian’s case. This is despite both stating very clearly that this is not what they want, several times over." Rewriting the Rules
>>><<<
"It was not just anarchists but young Italian factory workers – complete with their sideburns – who first expressed the idea that liberation involves a fight against work itself. Today what the Italian autonomists said rhetorically in the 1970s has become reality: the whole of society is a factory. The struggle for social justice takes place no longer just amid lines of machinery, but in places such as the Focus E15 occupation by single mums and the Sex Worker Open University projects in London and Glasgow." Guardian
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