tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61576412024-03-12T19:52:39.770-07:00[re] framing experienceperspectives on the state of realityolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-77187414984339228912011-04-21T11:56:00.000-07:002011-04-21T11:57:44.410-07:00DECRIMINALIZING HIV<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/APc4540a75baea4c3da2586727a82d0c86.html?mg=com-wsj#articleTabs%3Darticle">NY man charged for not telling of HIV infection - WSJ.com</a><br />
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</div><div>The stigmatization of HIV has made the incentive to NOT disclose HIV-positive status greater than the incentive to do so. The criminalization of HIV, as exemplified in this case, contributes to said stigma. The laws regarding HIV transmission are not in sync with science and are premised on false information. HPV, another sexually transmitted infection, causes terminal cancer. We do not criminalize transmission of HPV, yet we criminalize transmission of HIV, a non-terminal infection when treated with medication.</div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-34167170091259317632011-04-02T07:38:00.000-07:002011-04-02T07:40:25.619-07:00AFRICA OBJECTIFIED AGAIN<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large-image/IAMAfrican.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.theroot.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large-image/IAMAfrican.jpg" width="216" /></a></div>This fits in nicely with the historical objectification of an entire continent by the West. Exactly like those red, green, and black striped earrings in the shape of Africa that symbolize some romanticized idea that people wear. No different. The ads don't say "I AM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN" and they certainly didn't say "I AM POOR" - which is the real problem, a product of globalized markets and globalized neo-colonial slavery. </div><div><br />
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How can society not have anything other than compassion for a person so totally controlled by a chemical that they stick syringes into their face?olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-41438637395665045312011-01-18T19:01:00.000-08:002011-01-18T19:05:58.455-08:00I CHOOSE TO HIDE MY FACE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/110117_jeffsheng-oliver_p465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/110117_jeffsheng-oliver_p465.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/01/jeff-sheng.html">Looking Back at Don't Ask Don't Tell</a><br />
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A powerful photo essay from The New Yorker magazine on the participation in one's own oppression by enlisting in the United States Military.</div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-653606645850330922011-01-11T08:54:00.000-08:002011-02-08T21:41:17.291-08:00Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/20/naomi_wolf_vs_jaclyn_friedman_a">Naomi Wolf vs. Jaclyn Friedman: Feminists Debate the Sexual Allegations Against Julian Assange</a><br />
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</div><div>Fascinating debate. Perspective from both sides are strong.</div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-45432346458311408202010-09-20T12:02:00.000-07:002010-11-01T07:33:02.907-07:00A TAXONOMY OF TRANSITIONS<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.radicalcartography.net/chicagodots_race_lines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.radicalcartography.net/chicagodots_race_lines.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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A color-coded map of geographical racial distribution in metropolitan Chicago. This is from 2000, so there would be changes to account for, such as the demolition of Cabrini Green housing projects, the blue cluster on the Near North Side. Chicago is an example of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States#Hypersegregation">hypersegregation</a>.</div></div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-45634701607957388362010-08-15T08:18:00.000-07:002011-02-09T07:59:39.032-08:00GIRL BODY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ivstatic.com/files/et/imagecache/636/files/blog_articles/kendall-jenner-beach-modeling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.ivstatic.com/files/et/imagecache/636/files/blog_articles/kendall-jenner-beach-modeling.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="http://www.ivillage.com/should-14-year-old-kendall-jenner-be-doing-bikini-shoot/1-a-219055?ivNPA=1&sky=otb%7Civl%7Cen%7C&obref=obnetwork">Should 14-Year-Old Kendall Jenner Be Doing a Bikini Shoot? - iVillage</a><br />
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</div><div>The complaint is misogynist and regressive. Standards of decency for how females are SUPPOSED to dress have been created by men and sustained by women, who go along with these restrictions because they are complicit in the historical oppression of females. The fact that we are talking about how girls dress and what is and what is not appropriate for women and girls to wear reminds me of discussions of the burqa. While the sexualization and objectification of the female body is far from over (if ever), this situation is a necessary evolutionary step in its eventual de-objectification. Men do not have to conform to such stringent standards today because they are not oppressed and controlled by women. It's a much larger picture than imagined.</div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-21831506486927815812010-06-07T09:57:00.000-07:002011-02-08T21:47:13.056-08:00THE TWELVE STEPS: A RE-WRITE<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div id="internal-source-marker_0.7026004726067185" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-1.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNElpxtazcKebtqAnPQnP-ZIDU5pWA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 1</span></span></span></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We declare that we are powerful and that our lives are manageable</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-2.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHkAhmZ5mzDOWrHR1Buz70COyJ4FA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 2</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We understand that we are perfectly sane and do not need to be restored to sanity</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-3.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHpcVMkjtDq5YC9iG9oiaizm33icA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 3</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We know that we have control of our lives and responsibility for our every action</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">S</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-4.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGl9rgTVBQW9gSWCwJmekOEJQH_xw"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">tep 4</span></span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We make a searching and fearless inventory of ourselves</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-5.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE72Xx2qkqhB3CKcEiBBiZ6OpWIVg"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 5</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We declare to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our strengths</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-6.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHMoqE7hYdrCG01RxTdLbmNcyntVw"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 6</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We realize we are solid in character and that we are amazing</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-7.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHSQZHD5mm2GHLAvgybte0CQ_iTXg"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 7</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We celebrate our strengths</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-8.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGSytnfcW2m1x2drjTDCftzKDeFjQ"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 8</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We make a list of all persons we had harmed, and asked them for forgiveness as we forgave ourselves</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-9.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEtWM3dx7MYUHfg_1rNbPCGxmxf-w"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 9</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We make direct amends to such people and to ourselves</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-10.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUeIFBZb9koTLjsGtLVdHz2lpyag"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 10</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - We continue to take personal inventory and make frequent affirmations of our self-worth and strength</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.12step.org%2FStep-11.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHr-UwBnhxXPYjJL0kZugZm6y7lfA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Step 11</span></span></span></span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - Seek through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with ourselves, affirming our will and power</span></span></span></span></li>
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</div><div>If you haven't yet read about or watch the "Collateral Murder" leak from 2007, you can at the link. It shows the video game our "peacekeeping freedom fighters" are playing. The fact that they <i>mistakenly </i>killed a Reuters photographer assistant whose camera was mistaken for an AK-47, is not the important fact. The important fact is that they killed. "Engaging" is another word for murder, they just choose not to use that language, instead employing euphemisms to conduct their "obligations."</div><div><br />
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</div><div>When will this end, you guys? What are you going to do about your friends and family joining the military?<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-21764529397514791302010-03-17T09:21:00.000-07:002010-10-27T10:14:08.292-07:00DEMONS AND DEMONIZATIONS : P. KRUGMAN<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/demons-and-demonization/">http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/demons-and-demonization/</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">The story of the (statistically probably gay) black boy in the rural south with HIV screwed over by the insurance company has no relevance or capability of being related to by the ignorant American class of comfort that watches, armed in the turrets of their fortress of privilege, for any threat to their PERCEIVED security in health coverage. The same people who will not budge to support health care for all will certainly pay no mind to the Mitchell case, or more likely side with the insurance company in keeping them out. On the other hand, the extreme exoticism of the Mitchell case could lead it to be fetishized enough to serve as an effective symbol and discussion point for all sides, ultimately working to reveal the flaws of the system</span>.olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-60432016065102731542010-02-17T16:32:00.000-08:002010-04-06T11:29:30.042-07:00THE IMPACT OF YOUR DOLLAR ON EVERYTHING<a href="http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/2010/02/our-meat-no-antibiotics-ever/">Whole Story Blog Archive Our meat: No antibiotics, EVER!</a><br />
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</div><div>Remember: YOU and your dollar determine what is planted on the farm. </div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-39518974665950755642010-01-26T11:08:00.000-08:002010-01-30T09:19:16.490-08:00UNVEILED<a href="http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/0101615785-ce-que-preconise-la-mission-sur-le-port-du-voile-integral">Ce que pr�conise la�mission sur le port du�voile int�gral - Lib�ration</a><br />
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The most interesting thing about this is that only 1,900 women in France wear veils and that this information was actually accurately obtained.olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-35197574288431745612009-11-24T09:02:00.001-08:002009-11-24T17:17:10.768-08:00Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya : The New YorkerA fascinating cultural anthropological case. The concept of gender <br />being mediated by societies and further ideological conflict between <br />the developed and undeveloped world.<p><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/30/091130fa_fact_levy?printable=true">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/30/091130fa_fact_levy?printable=true</a></p><p><br /></p>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-27418126818146230392009-10-25T00:10:00.000-07:002010-04-04T22:26:26.558-07:00THE COLONIAL SUBJECTS ARE GETTING RESTLESS<a href="http://www.edgeonthenet.com/display/viewimage_story.php?id=98107" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.edgeonthenet.com/display/viewimage_story.php?id=98107" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 231px; width: 250px;" /></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=&sc3=&id=98107"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's all very interesting because of course there's been a Western agenda on Africa - to colonize and exploit it - and naturally cultural imperialism follows. It's just very interesting to see how and which Western values are appropriated (Christianity) and which ones are rejected (homosexuality), and all using the Queen's English. Sure, the practice of sodomy and male-male love has always happened in Africa as it has elsewhere in the world, but the modern scientific concept of homosexuality is new to us all.</span></span></span><br />
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I’d love to remind all the archbishops in Africa that Christianity and the modern concepts of sexuality, homosexuality, and homophobia were all imposed on colonial Africa by the Europeans and that there’s no such thing as an "African culture." </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Very good article, cultural anthropologically-speaking. Culture clash, conflicting agendas, moral subjectivity, religious absolutism, public/global health vs. alleged African cultural purity. Juicy!</span></span></span></div></div>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-3564650955338069962009-07-29T23:31:00.000-07:002011-02-09T08:06:49.327-08:00Moins de 400 femmes porteraient le voile intégral en FranceOnly 367 women in France wear head covering scarves. Should they all be rounded up and be forced to remove them? The French would like to take away a civil liberty because it makes them uncomfortable. The Muslim response in France needs to be heard: <br />
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<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Immédiatement, les représentants des musulmans se sont unanimement dits hostiles à une loi, soulignant que le voile intégral était un phénomène ultra-marginal et que la question devait se régler entre musulmans, plutôt par la pédagogie que par l’interdiction. Ils critiquaient aussi l’emploi du mot «<em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">burqa</em>», qui désigne le voile des Afghanes et qui n’est quasiment pas porté en France. Un fait confirmé par les services de renseignements. </span></blockquote><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript">
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A historical misogyny in the form of male-dominated government control of women's bodies in the Arab world is merely being shifted to another end of the moral spectrum where women's bodies are once again being controlled by the state, but this time in the Western world with France's decision. I am talking about women's bodies and how women are pawns in a game of dueling moralities. Do any of these laws affect men?<br /><br />A government telling women what to wear is not freedom, in France or Afghanistan. No, we cannot be nude on the street in France, but the particular case of the burqa is different and has political, cultural, and historical considerations that must be taken into account. This desire on the part of France to rule on Muslim women's dress is not only misogynist, it is the cultural anti-Arab/anti-Muslim sentiment of the French people rooted in colonialism, which always employs racism in order to function. That racist, colonial legacy is being played out today in this contemporary situation and the female body and the behavior expected of women as "le deuxieme sexe" is the battlefield.<br /><br />I want Muslim women to be able to choose to wear the burqa as an individual liberty. I doubt this would be a personal choice - I don't know. I would rather the state not be involved in this. The punishment of a woman for not being covered enough is the same as the punishment of a woman for being covered too much.<br />OCHolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-1339501389656169032009-06-24T21:13:00.000-07:002009-06-24T21:13:46.684-07:00LEAVING TEHRANBy JASON REZAIAN in Dubai | 24 June 2009<br /><br />[TEHRAN BUREAU] I decided to leave Iran a couple of days ago for several reasons. First of all, it was beginning to feel as though I could be of little use to anyone by being there. Choked off from most telecommunication, barred from reporting and holding both Iranian and American citizenship, my presence in Iran during this crisis had devolved into being little more than one more thing for my friends in Tehran to worry about.<br />[more]<a href="http://tehranbureau.com/leaving-tehran-2/">Leaving Tehran – Tehran Bureau</a>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-43688822748559906212009-06-22T13:26:00.000-07:002009-06-26T10:56:00.402-07:00Sarkozy: No place for 'burqa' in FranceWomen and their bodies are once again finding themselves the pawns on the battlefield for male abuses of power. In the case of Sarkozy's statement condemning use of the burqa, women are being just as subjugated as they are in the middle east as to how they are and are not permitted to dress. I find this HIGHLY OFFENSIVE and were I in France today, I would wear a burqa to show my solidarity with people who CHOOSE to wear whatever they want. <br /><br />I think it is a huge mistake, as was the banning of head scarves some years ago in France. It is a violation to dictate cultural signifiers and suppression of free will. It should be a person's choice to wear a burqa and it should be a person's choice to leave France. "Do these women have that choice?" is the question, but it is not the state's responsibility to answer it for them, either.<br /><br />Moral imposition is highly questionable, as are fluctuating conceptions of freedom, or in this case: liberté, égalité, fraternité.<br />OCH<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=98779&sectionid=351020603">Sarkozy: No place for 'burqa' in France</a><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!--<br />google_ad_client = "pub-2245174294071450";<br />/* 468x60, created 9/11/08 */<br />google_ad_slot = "4703299520";<br />google_ad_width = 468;<br />google_ad_height = 15;<br />//--><br /></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"<br />src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"><br /></script>olenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051515036640144684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157641.post-30796769661947122522009-05-05T10:45:00.001-07:002009-11-15T14:13:22.493-08:00SAY NO TO BIOFUELS<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';">Say NO, NO, NO to biofuels, even ethanol. ALL biofuels require more destruction of forests and soil because we need space to "grow" fuel in addition to food, food production is affected GLOBALLY, and biofuels STILL pollute. imagine that you were a third-world farmer required by your corporation-lobbied/controlled government to grow soybeans on your land that get shipped to biofuel factories in the first world but you couldn't plant food or make enough food to feed your own kid. That's the reality, in a nutshell. 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