Posts Tagged ‘activism’

Allies Must Be Traitors: On Barnor Hesse’s “action-oriented identities”

04 Dec 2014 at 12:06

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Politics of sex

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The 8 White Identities by [Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology] Barnor Hesse There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing […]

More on “The Match Percentage Fallacy, or, the influence of rolequeerness on the Predator Alert Tool project”

19 Nov 2014 at 21:24

maymay

Politics of sex, Technology

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thebrightobvious: idlnmclean: maymay: […prior discussion truncated…] It deconstructs reified institutions and intuitions by applied and analytical philosophy. Very quick, very informal comment: let’s connect the “social justice as melodrama” concept to game theory. My explication probably will be flawed, so feel free to critique it. Interacting in mainstream society can be thought of as a […]

Brainwave [discussing one problem with “Social Justice as Melodrama”]

07 Nov 2014 at 17:15

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Politics of sex

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cool-yubari: maymay: [This post and previous discussion truncated.] since I make clear that they can not actually cripple me with self-doubt, they do everything they can to cripple others with self-doubt. This forces me and mine to defend not only against the infliction of direct challenges to our senses of self, but to (over-)extend ourselves […]

Thinking Rolequeer: Stepping Outside the Charmed Circle

01 Nov 2014 at 12:35

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Politics of sex

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Dear rolequeer, I have been meaning to write a post whose working title is “Rolequeerness and Stepping Outside the Charmed Circle,” but I have yet to actually do it. When I read your recent post, “Oppression as the ultimate time consumer,” I was reminded exactly why I have not yet written that post; as you […]

“Allyship” is full of corrupt gatekeepers, technological and otherwise

25 May 2014 at 12:35

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Technology

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Do NOT read this incisive ‘zine if you need your “I’m a good ally” bubble to feel good about yourself: The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off  the struggles they ostensibly support. They often work in […]

Wherein MRAs and Feminists both agree that legalistic status quo on “consent” must not be challenged.

03 May 2014 at 14:51

maymay

Politics of sex

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I trolled one of the largest subreddits where “men’s rights activists” hang out by posting a link to my “Consent can be withdrawn” social experiment post. The result was better than I anticipated. They upvoted my post, realized they got trolled, and then tried insulting me by pointing out how bad of an MRA I am. […]

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