Sorry, this got published before I finished it – I meant to save it as a draft before I went out, and I obviously hit the wrong button. So some links weren’t in place and also some pieces that I planned to include were omitted. So please cast your eyes over the links again.
Bloggergate-inspired:
Pam at Pandagon: This I Believe (this is one of the best pieces on the pros and cons of institutionalised religion I’ve read in years)
Amanda Marcotte tells her story for Salon and runs some analysis by the Huffington Post.
Melissa McEwan tells her story for the Guardian.
Violet Socks
Netroots solidarity for Shakespeare’s Sister: We are Spartacus. Melissa responds.
Other issues:
Prison Rape.
Ezra Klein got the ball rolling with these three pieces [link 1] [link 2] [link 3]
The ball was taken and run with by many other mostly male bloggers, in a rare incidence of putting political partisanship aside to point out that society’s tolerance of prison rape as an expected part of punishment for the convicted is utterly immoral and cruel. Barry at Alas a Blog has a round-up of these posts, and chooses a powerful quote to head it:
The opposite of compassion is not hatred, it’s indifference.
Anonymous prisoner quoted by Human Rights Watch
Racial Trends:
also at Alas a Blog, Rachel S. looks at how trends in framing the discussion of race in the US might develop in the coming year.
Valentine’s Day:
My political Valentine? by Mark at Larvatus Prodeo (mine’s Thomas Paine)
My culture-wars Valentine by Kim at Larvatus Prodeo (already linked to in a previous post here, but I can’t recommend the discussion thread highly enough).
BitchPhd talks up Scarleteen, an online resource for comprehensive sex education. Just in case you are or know a teen living somewhere without access to proper sex ed, or too embarrassed to ask questions face to face.
Sexism and sexuality: – to keep up the obstreperation component.
Helen, the Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony, on Dalla-Riva and Police culture.
Ann at Feministing notes this Disturbing Product of the Day and Jessica notes the move in Tennessee to require death certificates for aborted foetuses.
Jess McCabe at The F-word: the landlord is renegotiating restrictive leases in Harley Street so that no doctor will be allowed to perform abortions there. Just like the Catholic Church does here in Australia.
Other linkage:
Club Troppo’s continuing roundup of the Australian blogosphere, Missing Links. Each week has a different editor, and there are usually two but maybe three editions weekly.
Wordplay:
Sarsaparilla’s Ben H. has Test Your Word-Power against a Dead Squirrel
The Editors over at The Poor Man Institute are utterly disrespectful of Camille Paglia’s return to writing for Salon, and are uttering dictionary diktats to boot. They read Paglia’s piece and mocked it so that you don’t have to: seriously, why not just refuse to click on any link to Paglia at Salon? If people don’t read her then Salon will stop publishing her.
Copyright:
metaphorical, of Politics, Technology and Language, examines YouTube’s ongoing problem with users posting copyrighted material and alleged corporate misuse of copyright infringement claims to have fair use postings of copyrighted material removed.
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I saw a really wonderful paper called ‘No escape: Violence and Technologies of Containment’ by a guy called Dinesh Wadiwel at the CSAA conference last year (here’s a link to the abstract: http://www.unaustralia.com/programme.php?s=%&f=160) where Dinesh spoke about the morality of ‘contained’ spaces like prisons. He spoke about rape in particular. Dinesh is a scarily good speaker. No, he’s an amazing speaker – a young bloke who writes really great stuff. If you come across his work, read it! Especially that paper on container stuff.
He made the point about how violence within prisons is accepted as a ‘normal’ part of the prison experience. It was moving.
He sounds very interesting, dogpossum.
It appears that the discussion of the problem of prison rape may be finally moving out as a mainstream issue. Once it was ignored, then mocked. Now instead of joking defensively about it, men who are unlikely to ever go to prison themselves (white or mostly white educated professionals) are starting to get passionately angry about it. This is encouraging.
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