Touching piece about racism in childhood. Guardian
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Good piece. It's reasonable to acknowledge that the stereotypical straight/white/male nerd is oppressed in his own way, while also calling him to account for his oppression of others. New Statesman
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Some interesting anecdotes about changing sexual mores during the British Industrial Revolution.
"The autobiography of Ellen Johnston offers an example of how factory work allowed her to raise a child outside marriage and dispense with a male breadwinner altogether. Ellen was born in Glasgow in the 1830s and started working in one of the city’s many cotton factories at the age of 11. By her late teens she was sexually active and before too long found herself expecting an illegitimate child. But it was not the disaster it might have been and Ellen appears to have made no effort to use the pregnancy to precipitate a wedding. Instead she embraced the prospect of single-motherhood. She ‘longed for the hour’ that her child would be born and was delighted to become ‘the mother of a lovely daughter’. After the birth Ellen lived with her mother, who took care of her daughter, while she returned to the factory to earn a living for all three." History Today
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Very interesting maps. I'd say Joburg is quite a bit denser than London, at least in the built-up parts. Vox
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Good piece. It's reasonable to acknowledge that the stereotypical straight/white/male nerd is oppressed in his own way, while also calling him to account for his oppression of others. New Statesman
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Some interesting anecdotes about changing sexual mores during the British Industrial Revolution.
"The autobiography of Ellen Johnston offers an example of how factory work allowed her to raise a child outside marriage and dispense with a male breadwinner altogether. Ellen was born in Glasgow in the 1830s and started working in one of the city’s many cotton factories at the age of 11. By her late teens she was sexually active and before too long found herself expecting an illegitimate child. But it was not the disaster it might have been and Ellen appears to have made no effort to use the pregnancy to precipitate a wedding. Instead she embraced the prospect of single-motherhood. She ‘longed for the hour’ that her child would be born and was delighted to become ‘the mother of a lovely daughter’. After the birth Ellen lived with her mother, who took care of her daughter, while she returned to the factory to earn a living for all three." History Today
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Very interesting maps. I'd say Joburg is quite a bit denser than London, at least in the built-up parts. Vox
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This is a truly excellent takedown. Please do read [Discussion of transphobia, suicide]
"You don’t want to “sensationalize” a suicide in order to inspire “copycat suicides.” You don’t want to intrude on a private moment of grief. You don’t want to “politicize” something personal.
But hang on a bit. That, again, presumes that Leelah Alcorn’s death was an isolated incident. That suicide of transgender young people denied support by their parents is rare, and therefore inspiring new incidents—putting the thought in people’s heads—is the largest danger here. It presumes that there isn’t a massive epidemic of trans suicides already happening. It presupposes that the reasons for Leelah Alcorn’s death are mysterious, individual, and personal to her case and that there isn’t a huge, glaring societal problem that can only be addressed if we as a society take collective action."
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