February 2012
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“It’s no accident that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X have been set up as...”
– a-dream-deferred-goes-to-harlem (via This Gendered Life)
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Instruction, Final: To Brown Poets from Black Girl...
Be camera, black-eyed aperture. Be diamondback terrapin, the only animal that can outrun a hurricane. Be 250 million years old. Be isosceles. Sirius. Rhapsody. Hogon. Dragon. Hubble. Stay hot. Create a pleasure that can stir up the world. Study the moon with a pencil. Drink the ephemerides. Lay with the almanacs. Become the lunations. Look up the word southing before you use it in a sentence....
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CAPITOL WORDS by the Sunlight Foundation →
ex. “women”: occurrences over time, popularity by state, popularity by party, most often mentioned by, recent occurrences in the Congressional Record (h/t Gwen)
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“When we talk about sustainability we are talking about the future, how things...”
– John Robinson of UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, British Columbia. “Building Sustainable Future Needs More Than Science, Experts Say,” IPS, 19 February...
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“People who live there (weirdly) don’t expect their desert civilization to...”
– Greg Hanscom on Phoenix, AZ, arguably “the world’s least sustainable city,” discussing ways the city is going green and could go even further at Grist.org.
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“We didn’t select any of the questions for those men. We never selected questions...”
– Chris Johnson, artist and professor at California College for the Arts, interviewed by Jamilah King of Colorlines.com on his and Hank Willis Thomas’s art installation/curriculum Question Bridge.
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“But if you sincerely want to reduce the incidence of domestic violence in our...”
– Amanda Marcotte, “Facts About Rihanna And Other Abused Women” at The Frisky.
ETA caveat: I do have reservations about white lady Marcotte giving us the whitewashed “facts” about a woman of color she’s (presumably) never met. People of color are doing important work on...
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MY ANGER IS A RADICAL POLITICAL STANCE. →
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“Journalism is a daily process of painting an ever truer picture of the world....”
– NPR’s new ethics handbook (via BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.)
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Beyond pearls and cashmere: getting more critical...
So … here is the thing. I think what Pearls and Cashmere is doing is great, in that it is a platform for real Smithies to school Ms. Spurzem on who we really are and why actual Smithies choose to come to Smith. The gimmick is pretty clever: take a picture of yourself wearing pearls and cashmere (real or fake), and caption it with your identity. It demonstrates that anyone can wear pearls and...
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“Now I envy the bees drowsing in their blossoms,
drunk on the mouthfeel.
For...”
– Alice Fulton, from “Malus Domestica,” New Yorker, 13 February 2012
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“When you can’t create you can work.”
– Henry Miller, “Commandments,” found in Henry Miller on Writing via Brain Pickings
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This makes me proud of my alma mater.
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Start Every Day as a Producer, Not a Consumer →
Why not take it one step further and start every day as a creative human? Step away from mindless consumption and from the production imperative, too. Breathe and work hard. Love and live.
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Farmers May Have Kicked Off Local Climate Change... →
The arrival of the Bantu — and their agricultural methods — may have helped create the savannas of central Africa.
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Reaching Out at Rio: Population Growth, Family... →
I’m going to this event at the Wilson Center today. The description does not have the word “justice” in it anywhere, but one of the speakers is Mother Jones reporter Kate Sheppard, who covers both environment and reproductive rights. I hope that there will be some discussion of how to address the population/reproductive health/environment intersection in ways that incorporate...
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Daphne Gottlieb, "Why Things Burn"
My fire-eating career came to an end when I could no longer tell when to spit and when to swallow. Last night in Amsterdam, 1,000 tulips burned to death. I have an alibi. When I walked by your garden, your hand grenades were in bloom. You caught me playing loves me, loves me not, metal pins between my teeth. I forget the difference between seduction and arson, ignition and...
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“We’ve already seen the young angry man. He’s already taken credit for everything...”
– Mohandas Gandhi, in response to Afshin Molavi: Future will be shaped by the rise of the angry young man
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“Extreme weather years like 2010 and 2011 are very likely to increase in...”
– Dr. Jeff Masters, Director of Meteorology at Wunderground.com (emphasis added; h/t CP)
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Studies: Sex change treatment for kids on the rise →
Pediatricians need to know these kids exist and deserve treatment, said Dr. Norman Spack, author of one of three reports published Monday and director of one of the nation’s first gender identity medical clinics, at Children’s Hospital Boston.
— AP
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“Far from being a mere 500-year event, we may have to go back to the invention of...”
– Sara Robinson on “the mass availability of nearly 100% effective contraception” at AlterNet (via Wiley)
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“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be...”
– Toni Morrison (via glamarchy)
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Personal Decisions, Global Catastrophes:... →
This may be stating the obvious for some, but I gave it a slow-clap standing ovation in my head.
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“The current political regime in Washington is a great example of the fundamental...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
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“With no hyperbole, I feel almost as much sadness for the world that it is...”
– NPR’s Quil Lawrence in a tribute to his lost colleague, Anthony Shadid (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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“The voter apathy is actually a disenfranchised generation’s response to an...”
– Andrew Meakes, ”Opinion: A Gen Y Perspective on Voter Apathy“ (via Occupy Online)
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Today is my birthday.
I’m 25 years old. I don’t feel terribly accomplished, but that’s (probably) okay.
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