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In a blog post this week, Imogen Binnie had some really important stuff to say about the queer “community” and its treatment of trans women and about glorifying heroes who have done fucked up things without acknowledging those fucked up things (ie, how so so many people worship Kathleen Hanna but neglect to address the fact that Le Tigre played Michfest twice, thereby tacitly endorsing the WBW policy and have never apologized, Queen Kathleen included.)
Read the full piece here. Seriously, go now. This piece is part of her work with Maximum Rocknroll. You can read more of those columns on her blog and can also check out the zines she has written via her Etsy store. Additionally, she is the author of Nevada, a novel recently published by Topside Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing authentic transgender narratives.
read this.
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Most minimum wage earners are adult women, not teenagers.
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Skeleton of the Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
Superimposed over the basic form of the fowl, to give a better approximation of how the musculature and feathering of the animal is constructed.
The bird; its form and function. C. William Beebe, 1907
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Lauryn Hill defends anti-gay lyrics in new song →
American singer in trouble for tax evasion has defended a song where she says society is crumbling because of ‘girl men’, ‘drag queens’, and ‘social transvestism’American singer, rapper and tax evader Lauryn Hill has defended the anti-gay lyrics in her new song.
She says she considers ‘social transvestism’, ‘drag queens’ and ‘girl men’ are as bad as ‘pimps’, ‘pushers’ and ‘serial criminals’.
Hill claims her lyrics are not targeting any specific group but rather ‘everyone in our society who hides behind neurotic behavior’.
‘Neurotic Society is a song about people not being, or not being able to be, who and what they truly are, due to the current social construct,’ she wrote on her Tumblr.
‘Everyone has a right to their own beliefs. Although I do not necessarily agree with what everyone says or does, I do believe in everyone’s right to protest.’
She added: ‘The overarching message of my music is to get up and stop compromising! And hopefully it will stimulate and motivate the changes that our society needs.’
The R&B singer must turn herself into authorities 8 July to serve three months in a federal prison for failing to pay her rent as well as taxes on $1.8 million (€1.38m) in earnings.
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The Unauthorized Orientation Video for the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference has been LEAKED online in advance of the 2013 conference.
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Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom
May 21, 2013Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.
The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”
And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”
Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.
In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.
A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”
Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.
Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)
On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.
Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.
fuck this also fuck that the article had to use the rhetoric of “right in this country!!” “not even outsourced to people you don’t care about!”
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…day care is a bruising financial burden for many families—more expensive than rent in 22 states. In the priciest, Massachusetts, it costs an average family $15,000 a year to place an infant full-time in a licensed center. In California, the cost is equivalent to 40 percent of the median income for a single mother.
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on why so many lower income latinas stay home w their babies. childcare costs as much, if not more than average low end wages, so you may as well just take care of them yourself.
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this stupid article says that the marathon explosions are the first acts of terrorism since 9/11 so apparently white people committing acts domestic terrorism don’t count
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BRUJAxCORE: Family attacked by NYPD on L Train platform →
NEW YORK CITY, NY — A family trying to ride the MTA train in Brooklyn were aggressively attacked by NYPD officers after the mom was suspected of attempting to board the train without paying the fare.
Marilyn Taylor claims that she and her kids were preparing to board a Manhattan-bound L train on Aug. 9. She was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller and holding her 4-year-old’s hand. The father, Dehaven McClain, carried the 5-month-old close to his chest.
NYPD officers allegedly saw the woman push her stroller through a service entrance. Officers pepper sprayed the woman and misted the entire family. Marilyn Taylor says she fell to her knees and nearly off the subway platform.
“The pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting,” the complaint states. The children needed medical attention because of the lingering effects of the spray. The mother and father have suffered ongoing eye injuries.
Taylor claims that the officers have continued to harass her family. “Since the incident, plaintiffs have suffered repeated harassment from the officer defendants, forcing them to avoid the MTA through the Atlantic Avenue stop,” the complaint states.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/01/56239.htm
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/01/new-york-police-sued-for-pepper-spraying-5-month-old-baby/
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i’m not trapped in a gender or body
i’m trapped in a society that won’t allow me to express myself creatively through clothing and art
IM NOT TRAPPED IN A BODY IM TRAPPED IN A SOCIETY
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June 7-9, 2013 | The Rotunda, Locust Moon and AIRSpace Gallery
All Proceeds Benefit Project SAFE and Women in TransitionWe’re so excited to announce the details of Ladyfest Philadelphia. A full schedule, workshop descriptions and ticketing information will be available very soon. Hope to see you there.
BANDS:
US Girls (Toronto)
Screaming Females (New Brunswick)
Potty Mouth (Western Mass)
Parasol (Boston)
Void Vision
Aye Nako (New York)
In School (New York)
Priests (D.C.)
Peeple Watchin’ (Boston)
Black Wine (New Jersey)
Shady Hawkins (New York)
Whore Paint (Providence)
Attia Taylor (New York)
3Jane (New Brunswick)
+HIRS+
Trophy Wife
Blizzard Babies (Chicago)
Big Mouth (Baltimore)
Batty
Amanda X
Ghost Ship (Rosali Middleman and Mary Lattimore)
Kate Ferencz
Mindtroll (New York)WORKSHOPS:
Amps, Pedals and PAs: Demystifying Electronics with Girls Rock Philly
The Stop Motion Stomp Station
Drumline with Girls Rock Philly
Urban Gardening at Plotland
Feminist Organizing Workshop with For the Birds
Sexual Communication and Consent with Dr. Justine Marie Shuey (Juicy Justine)
Drawing Autobio Comics with Liz Prince and Ramsey Beyer
Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, and the MVA
Self Defense: From Eye Contact to Eye Poking
Readings by Liz Prince, Suzy X, Annie Mok, Kerri Radley, Katie Haegele and Jes Skolnik
Queer and Trans Yoga with shay and Qui
Fix-A-Flat with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
Herbal Infusions and Tinctures
Victim-Blaming in the Media: What It Is & What You Can Do About It with Tara Murtha
Project SAFE: What’s It All About?
Youth, Activism and the Arts
Radical Printmaking: Pulling the Personal and the Political with Leah Girardo
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