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Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape by Nicola Gavey Women and Psychology series

highly recommend this book on the ways rape is socially constructed differently across cultures and how creating a hierarchy of rape hurts all victims.

Just Sex?: The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape by Nicola Gavey

it just blows my mind how the Zionist Congress literally had colonial committees and now the truth is dismissed as some tiktok conspiracy. the gaslighting really sucks

Eight Stages of White Settler-Colonial Denial 1. "They didn't exist" (terra nullius) Complete denial of Indigenous presence in a given area (country, province, etc). Includes denial of Indigeneity, e.g. "Indigenous Peoples are Settlers too" 2. If they did, they weren't here" (terra nullius) Denial that Indigenous People inhabit/travel/harvest/exist in a specific area. Often based on euro-centric definitions of evidence of occupation 3. "If they were, they didn't use the land" (doctrine of discovery) Denial that Indigenous People have a connection with the Land. Often based on euro-centric worldviews of the land as something to be owned and extracted . "If they did, they didn't deserve it" (great chain ofbeing) Denial that Indigenous People have rights to their Lands. Often based on euro-centric value judgements of "primitive vs. civilized", "nomadic vs. sedentary" (right of conquest) if they did, they lost it" Denial that Indigenous People retain their rights to their Lands. Oft

I was wondering why I've noticed increased attacks on decolonial scholarship and the concept of indigeneity itself.

it's just settler-colonial things

I know fetterman has the money, ability, and funds to actually find and engage with the history

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The other thing these disparities do is incentivize individual solutions to what are clearly entrenched systematic inequities, and then you'll see headlines about white actors going to bat for their peers while the status quo remains unchanged writ large

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I knew it! Honestly, I'm really proud of the protestors.
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yeah as someone who was bullied in school i hate the mentality that cruel people must have been bullied. ime people who are accustomed to bullying others have very thin skin themselves bc they are inclined to see every interaction as a fight to win

Oklahoma Is Determined to Out Trans Youth For Life — Assigned A fight over whether trans youth can update their records is about ensuring trans people can never escape discrimination and stigma, and Oklahoma’s Department of Education is being open about that...

In Oklahoma, the Department of Education instituted an emergency rule to ensure that a trans boy would be subjected to forced outing at his school.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but trotting out the “lefties want purity” bullshit for people who are asking for what should be—and what was! In fact! As of 1.5 years ago!—a basic human right is not the fucking way to get out the vote.

so his new argument is "everyone does it?" 🤔

just had a guy go full debate nerd in favor of British colonialism, so to reiterate:

Decolonization does not require sending settlers back to their country of origin & implying it does feeds into settler myths about decolonization. it requires the upending of the settler-colonial state structure.

to them, the choice for Biden is so obvious yet somehow his qualifications are also so weak that any criticism is a gift to fascism 🥴

A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza A Times visual investigation reveals that one of Israel’s largest munitions was regularly being dropped in areas designated safe for i

"During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians, according to an analysis of visual evidence by The New York Times."

The Marriage Plot There’s a reason politics is reshaping relationships.

Some of the recent marriage polarization discourse looks to me like yet another GOP effort to pathologize a constituency that they are hostile to: single women growing more liberal because depriving them of their rights is a central part of the gop’s project www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Reminds me of a date years ago when the guy (a chef) asked about my work, I explained it. And then he told me, “you really shouldn’t lead with all the academic stuff, that’s intimidating.” Lolol. So I assume the answer here is “anything about having ever accomplished anything or formed an opinion”

Is Poor Things Really the Best We Can Do? Emma Stone fully commits to a banal rendition of faux-feminist sexual freedom.

i hated poor things and reviewed it for vulture. www.vulture.com/article/poor...

But this is the same guy?

Twitch streamer with an intro to gambling for toddlers sponsorship: showing your cleavage is child abuse

friendly reminder that intersectionality started as a legal theory to show how victims of certain types of discrimination (like misogynoir) are failed by current anti-discrimination laws.

maybe this will get more attention over here than it did on twitter!

damn i really am like, legit working class. all my friends went to college and have nice, clean houses and good jobs and i.... hmm

i don't want to obligate my friends to pretend to like my work because i'm so fragile or whatever, but it weighs on me heavily that i don't think anything i write would appeal to any of my friends. it makes me feel like there's no audience for it out there.

💀i mentioned this to a friend and she was like oh same, doomed from the start. no please dissuade me dslkdlsdhlsdfh

i know you have to have a first draft in order to edit it but the problems in my first draft seem so substantial that it feels like there's no point in continuing the project. i just want to give up and throw it away

i watched this two weeks ago but i simply must watch it again

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realizing that the successful, established career women of Sex and the City are my age has pulverized my self-esteem

The second half of my wip is drastically shorter than the first half of my wip and i don't know how to resolve it 🫠 Even though i know i need to cut out a lot of the first act i think the first half of the second act is roughly solid...

thrown into paroxysms of violent despair by my own prose sucking. this happens every november but it feels new and more horrible every year