February 2012
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December 2011
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Back in. Comics and women. Bang
Very good Guardian front page article.
November 2011
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Lens: Helping the People Beyond the Pain →
Donna Ferrato started chronicling sexual adventurers on the edge of eroticism. But she was jolted into action when she confronted domestic violence. Thirty years later, she is still photographing — and advocating for — victims of abuse.
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What an incredible article
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October 2011
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Push for ‘Personhood’ Amendment Represents New... →
A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.
this is truly scary
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Sleep well Qaddafi. We love you dead.
So, Qaddafi/Gaddafi is dead and it comes to a huge relief. It was a long time coming. Coincidentally, I’m reading Histoire des peuples arabes by Albert Hourani. Immediately, I jumped to the 60s period in Libya and figured how much Qaddafi destroyed some millenium-long legacies for the sake of militarism. It is gut wrenching. 3 things.
1. The media showing the picture of his death. It is...
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In case you wondered →
Many many people believe religion is the main reason why women are being badly treated in third world countries. I won’t argue against religion’s general bias against women, however, I think of it backwards: lack of ressources leads to poverty, poverty leads to lack of education, lack of education leads to two things, discrimination against women and surge of religious beliefs. From...
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“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those...”
– The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir (via lostinthesounds)
What would Anne F. think ?
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Occupy Wall Street
While I fully support any kind of activism that targets better regulations of the banking and finance institutions, I feel this whole 99%/1% rhetoric is dangerously dogmatic. Usually, attacking a specific group of people gathers hatred, whereas updating the institutions in which they work is usually more interresting and fruitfull. There has to be more to this movement than pointing out the...
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I had too much sushis
I am about to meet the great Amos Gitaï. Freakin excited.
PS: sushis were clearly an uncountable noun.
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the amazing work of friends
The other, cooler, older blog I write for, La diagonale is being promotted by some other cool, older blosg. What started as a vague idea by 4 dude et one fille developped into a full blown armageddon of awesomness.
Hip hip hip hourrah !
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Second opinions. →
So this happened yesterday.
After i’ve sent a mail to Metromedia plus, they contacted me back with this article. It did shed some light on the situation; the inability for journalist to cover what appears to be an easy situation is fascinating me.
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i trust you know this, i trust you will know this
the main difference between explaining and expressing is modesty.
i won’t understand everything, but that is ok.
you won’t understand everything, but that is ok.
if bad teachers taught me something: people acquire knowledge at their own cadence.
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refusing to be objective
“All that has been written about women by men should be suspect, for the men are at once judge and party to the lawsuit”. Poullain de la Barre
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