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Documenting: death by deportation in Switzerland
From AfricaNews 19th March:
"A Nigerian man on hunger strike has died on the tarmac at Zurich airport after Swiss authorities tried to deport him using a special flight to deport asylum seekers ...
Police said they had shackled the man because he had resisted deportation. Two Nigerian witnesses quoted by the Swissinfo news website accused the ( Read more... ) -
Er....
Probably not as amusing or interesting to anyone else but after having just spent the day reading dull and predictable Guardian articles about feminism (for research purposes!) the stupidity eventually got so stupid it turned funny and i just had to share it with someone...
A reader's letter from 2006 sent in response to an article about the state ( Read more... ) -
Late night rant...
Oh ffs, could this article be any more dull and predictable?
Why does every single liberal/left media article about this supposed 'new feminism' have to quote and reference the exact same (white, cis, class privileged...) women/groups each and every time?
I remember having this same frustrated conversation with a friend about this article about ( Read more... ) -
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Yep, that's my university. I was seriously considering leaving this summer because of this whole mess and all the redundancies that are going on, but decided to stay and in a way I feel quite hopeful about it now. Everything seems quite up in the air, they've appointed a new vice-chancellor and it's possible that may be a turning point. There are a ( Read more... ) -
Blogroll
Because I can't include more than 10 direct links from my dreamwidth, I've decided to do a separate entry as a blogroll, then link to this instead.
So here's a list of some of the blogs that I like to read, that make me think, where I learn lots of stuff. Although I can't always keep up with all the content and I'm rubbish at commenting, but I'm ( Read more... ) -
Reading: Razia Aziz on 'white feminism'
I don't know how many times I have quoted this but it remains as relevant as ever.
“In attempting to shift the ground of feminist discourse, the adversary has at times appeared to be white feminists but is in fact, I would venture, white feminism - by which I expressly do not mean any feminism espoused by white feminists. I refer, rather, to any ( Read more... ) -
Reading: Lugones on 'infantilization of judgment'
White feminists and queers, listen:
“Infantilization of judgment is a dulling of the ability to read critically, and with maturity of judgment, those texts and situations in which race and ethnicity are salient. It appears to me as a flight into a state in which one cannot be critical or responsible: a flight into those characteristics of childhood ( Read more... ) -
Peter Tatchell is silencing and smearing queers of colour
I'm working on something longer in response to this racist crap but I don't have the brain energy to finish it right now... But if you haven't heard about it yet, short version is Peter Tatchell has responded to an article in which his imperialist queer politics are critiqued with a racist, defensive and undermining attack on the authors, which has ( Read more... ) -
On the move...
For any LJ friends still around... I've set up a dreamwidth account and will be posting from there from now. They'll automatically x-post to LJ for now and you can still comment on LJ as well - may change this later, but as not many people comment anyway, I don't want to make it harder for people ( Read more... )