November 2011
14 posts
Four Inmates Launch Hunger Strike at Detention... →
“The true focus of revolutionary change is never the oppressive situations which...”
– Audre Lorde (via -burythepast)
What if They Declared an Emergency and No One... →
sexistappeal:
lols08:
babyslime:
nanettehb:
babyslime:
It’s been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the extraordinary step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community.
No aid agencies have stepped forward. No disaster management teams have offered help.
Meanwhile temperatures have...
Justice for Migrant Workers: event: Sex at the... →
j4mw:
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:30pm at The Raging Spoon, 761 Queen Street West
Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project is proud to host Laura Agustín, an internationally renowned sex worker rights advocate and an…
“The root of consent is the Latin ‘consentire’, which means ‘with feeling.’...”
– Hugo Schwyzer (via notsocerebral)
“International Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 21, 2011 - 6:30-9pm...”
– (via queeractionniagara)
“I don’t believe in neutrality because the world is already moving in certain...”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot)
“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The...”
– Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
H/T The Rumpus
FUCKING READ THIS SHIT. NEXT TIME ANYONE THINKS IT’S OKAY TO RAG ON TRANS* PEOPLE (BECAUSE LOLOL THEIR EXISTENCE IS JUST SO FUNNY, ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT... 