This LJ Abuse / Warriors For Innocence debacle has brought up an important conflict in the way we use terms like "rights." A number of users have written that LJ has violated their right to free speech. On the other hand, jamie_miller makes the point that words like censorship, free speech, and right to expression pertain to the relationship between a ( Read more... )

There are a number of books about stripping and other sex work, a small explosion of which were published in the past year or so. Most of these follow a certain formula: a third wave feminist or postfeminist college graduate straps on some platforms and spends one year dancing in an expensive gown club or taking calls from an elite escort agency. ( Read more... )

In other T-shirt annoyance news, I'm sick of brand new T-shirts advertising products from the 80s: Nintendo, Thundercats, Strawberry Shortcake, Tab. It's a double layer of capitalist branding and consumer need-creation, a corporation slurping up the backwash from the marketing done by an unrelated corporation 20 years ago. I can't decide what's ( Read more... )

(This is a public clone of my friendslocked post, for lostcosmonaut's linking purposes ( Read more... )

Sometime between midnight and 1 AM today, five workers in a coal mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, died in an explosion ( Read more... )

Hi! This journal is friends-only. If you want in on the party, please ( Read more... )