Archive for November 2011
The Eviction of Occupy Philly
One of my best friends lives in Philly and has participated with Occupy Philly since the beginning. Here are all of his Facebook posts last night. He went down to the site, filmed a bit, feared his own arrest, and returned home. He then posted on Facebook what he saw going down on the livestream.
Siri, at least on my phone, is more pro- than anti-choice
Rape Culture, meet Siri >> WAIT, you’ve already met.
@amaditalks tweeted: “@ShelbyKnox @WentRogue @abortioneers If you say “I’m hurt” she’ll give you hospitals. Say “I was raped” she replies “Is that so?”"
All I have to say in response to this is…WOW. I don’t think Apple is trying to be mean or anything. I just think the guys who programmed Siri didn’t even consider this. And really, Apple can do better. Once I hear of any coordinated efforts to contact Apple about this issue, I’ll post about it.
Whoops, you’re being racist: appropriation of Native culture on Thanksgiving
On Thursday, my partner and our son participated in Austin’s Turkey Trot. I had my camera with me to document our son running his first 1K. I ended up using it to also document some of the people who chose to “celebrate” Thanksgiving by running in a race while wearing a “costume” that was supposed to represent Native Americans and/or their culture (I guess).
This is not okay.
“Hitting them with a fire hose and a bar of soap first was kind of a given…”
Two guys I went to high school with. Le sigh.
Pt. 2 of Occupy Chicago
This is EXACT reason women and minorities don’t want to participate in #OWS
There’s a rather big response to Occupy Chicago’s dismissal of unknoweablewoman’s concern. See the whole thing at my very first Storify ever.
AND THERE IS NOW A PART 2. For your viewing pleasure.
Related:
#OWS: Are we fighting for genuine transformation of the system?
#evictrapeculture
@scatx (that’s me!) tweeted:
#evictrapeculture, even at#ows, for this exact reason! // RT@OccupyWallSt: Remember violence only alienates the 99%#ows
#UNoccupyrapeculture
On this post about why I think we need the #occupyrapeculture hashtag, Somebody42 suggested #unoccupyrapeculture:
Do you want to consider “unoccupyRapeCulture” to avoid the “occupy” terminology that many First Nations and other POC find triggerig? It’s also a bot mote literally reflective of what we want to happen
It appears that people think that is too long (from what I can gather on Twitter). These ideas are on the table:
- #evictrapeculture
- #endrapeculture
- #stoprapeculture
UPDATED: ANNNNNDDDDDDD….. through a bit of consensus, we’ve gone with #evictrapeculture. I hope it picks up. See you on Twitter (I’m @scatx).
THIS
#occupyrapeculture because I’m not yr hot chick on wall street. I’m here for the class war and fighting rape is part of fighting status-quo.
