January 2011
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Stop the Deportation of Brenda Namigadde →
“In Uganda, I have nobody there. If I am sent back, I’ll be tortured, maybe killed. It’s very dangerous for me.”
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan woman living in the UK, faces deportation within the next 24 hours. Because of her sexual orientation, returning to Uganda would put her life at risk; only a day ago, prominant gay activist David Kato was murdered in his own home.
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin (via rebeccam)
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Fineness & Accuracy: I Don't Care If You're... →
The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s...
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“The fact that mental illness is so often used to explain violent acts despite...”
– Crazy Talk: We’re Too Quick To Use “Mental Illness” As An Excuse For Violence, Vaughn Bell (at slate.com)
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Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. …
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first...
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“You know what we call gay marriage in Canada? Marriage.”
– some guy I met the other night at a bar (via girl-detective)