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FluffAndInclusionPolice | Milena Popova
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Life, indeed, doesn’t come with trigger warnings, but…. Cn/tw: discussion of trigger warnings; mention of issues which may warrant trigger warnings, such as sexual violence; descriptions of being triggered]. Someone who is, loosely speaking, a colleague (an academic in the humanities) wrote yesterday in the Guardian that life doesn’t come with trigger warnings, and therefore books shouldn’t either. This does not facilitate my learning. And yes, of course it’s difficult to predict what people will b...
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Digital Rights | Milena Popova
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Category Archives: Digital Rights. Rape, sexual assault] ioerror, TOR, and encouraging victims to report rape to law enforcement. TW: This post discusses rape and sexual assault in some detail. In addition, several of the links lead to graphic descriptions of rape and sexual assault by survivors.]. First of all, all my thoughts are with the people who were finally able to speak out loud enough. To be heard in the face of power. There’s one thing that really struck me in TOR’s second statement. People who...
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Uncategorized | Milena Popova
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Dear “I’m not racist” Brexiter,. Honey, I don’t look. Angry, I am. Angry I am mostly angry at the people who duped you and other Brexiters to vote the way you did, like turkeys for Christmas. But I am also angry at you and other Brexiters for continuing to stick to your guns long after every single thing the Brexit campaign said has been exposed as a lie (and they’ve admitted. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 29, 2016. There are no magic fixes for academic publishing. But here’s the thi...
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elmyra | Milena Popova
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Dear “I’m not racist” Brexiter,. Honey, I don’t look. Angry, I am. Angry I am mostly angry at the people who duped you and other Brexiters to vote the way you did, like turkeys for Christmas. But I am also angry at you and other Brexiters for continuing to stick to your guns long after every single thing the Brexit campaign said has been exposed as a lie (and they’ve admitted. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. July 29, 2016. Rape, rape apologism] Congratulations, you’ve been upgraded! Now, given th...
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[Elsewhere] Ladies’ Things | Milena Popova
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Elsewhere] Ladies’ Things. With Marvel having made six movies with lead actors called Chris, the calls for a woman-led movie have been getting louder. And while we’re going to have to wait until 2018 to see Captain Marvel, and a Black Widow movie is still not on the cards, our appetites have been more than whetted with the latest superhero show to hit our screens; Agent Carter. Read more at The Geek Agenda. This entry was posted in Elsewhere. January 29, 2015. Elsewhere] Arrows and Aros.
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British politics | Milena Popova
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Category Archives: British politics. In which the blogger is hurt and raw and makes some possibly ill-advised political predictions.). The Gerrymandering Bill. As if First Past The Post isn’t sufficiently fucked up, this will exacerbate some of the worst issues of the current electoral system and make future Tory majorities more likely. This is the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform for at least a generation. This entry was posted in British politics. May 9, 2015. And Mr Gove Goes to War! Where ...
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[Elsewhere] LGBT+ History Month: Identity and the Problem of (Evolving) Language | Milena Popova
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Elsewhere] LGBT History Month: Identity and the Problem of (Evolving) Language. During the 2014 Winter Olympics (the ones that Russia hosted right after implementing Section 28 s bigger, meaner evil twin), I played something called the Tchaikovsky Drinking Game. It went a bit like this:. Non-Russians use music by gay Russian composer: take a drink. Russians use music by gay Russian composer who is also a national treasure: take two drinks. Read more over at Rainbow Teaching. February 5, 2015.
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Bi Visibility Day | Milena Popova
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It is Bi Visibility Day today, and I am delighted to see that even Stonewall. Are celebrating and acknowledging that we make up the largest part of the LGBT community. A few people have reacted to that piece of information with surprise – which is no wonder, given the systematic erasure of our identity that we experience on a daily basis. 8211; and monosexism. Hetero- and monosexism combine to give a powerful incentive to both straight and gay people to systematically dismiss, diminish and erase the exis...
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QUILTBAG | Milena Popova
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Elsewhere] Scrap the Kinsey Scale! CN: CSA mention in first paragraph]. I tend to return essay-length responses on why I am not gay and bin the link.). Read more at Bi Community News . This entry was posted in QUILTBAG. May 25, 2016. Elsewhere] LGBT History Month: Identity and the Problem of (Evolving) Language. Non-Russians use music by gay Russian composer: take a drink. Russians use music by gay Russian composer who is also a national treasure: take two drinks. Read more over at Rainbow Teaching.
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Je ne suis pas Charlie | Milena Popova
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Je ne suis pas Charlie. Content note: white, Christian-heritage person discussing racism and Islamophobia. It’s not the job of Muslims or people of colour to educate me, but if you do want to call me out on something I’ve got wrong, I would welcome that.]. I’ve lost respect for a lot of people and organisations over the last week. Apparently we are all now Charlie, and also incapable of recognising irony or nuance, or understanding power. Heck, even if we somehow manage to stop new surveillance powers, t...
