A link round-up
Jun. 9th, 2020 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyReality has been happening too fast in the last 24 hours for me to keep up (I had to get faster internet ha ha ha) and it feels like we're on the verge of either a fascist dystopia or an anarchist revolution, and here I am stuck in my house. In lieu of a proper post, here are some links so that you can have more tabs on your browser.
Police defunding motion in Toronto. I signed a bunch of petitions and wrote some letters and got a lot of letters back from various politicians on this. We'll see if it has legs. The police budget in Toronto is ridiculously bloated and any dollar not spent on them is a dollar better put to help communities.
8 fantasy novels by trans and nonbinary authors. I felt some of the authors here wrote better books than the ones they've listed, but I just noticed that this is from 2019 (JKR has been TERFing it up for awhile) so it's possible that those weren't out yet.
An exposé of Lauren O'Neil and the "BlogTO claims that Montreal antifa are descending on the city to riot" fiasco.
Confessions of a bastard cop. This is a long but really important read. A former cop reflects on his job and how it's structurally beyond reform even if there may be some well-meaning people in the system.
Masculinity as radical selfishness. Rebecca Solnit looks at gender, racism, and care. It's really good.
Why violent protests work. A hard look at why calls for peaceful protest only tends to be wishful thinking rather than how political change actually works. From, of all places, GQ.
Not to be out-radicalled by GQ, TeenVogue also has an article on BLM and co-optation. Their take is more optimistic than mine from the other day but let's hope they're right and I'm wrong.
Joy Ellison wrote a really good piece with advice for fellow white people wanting to stand in solidarity with Black folks.
So did you know that Seattle anarchists seized a police station, made an autonomous zone, and it's been going strong for a whole day? This is why Seattle is my favourite American city, y'all. Long live the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone!
Finally, a weird article about how horseshoe crabs bleed blue and are used in vaccine research.
Police defunding motion in Toronto. I signed a bunch of petitions and wrote some letters and got a lot of letters back from various politicians on this. We'll see if it has legs. The police budget in Toronto is ridiculously bloated and any dollar not spent on them is a dollar better put to help communities.
8 fantasy novels by trans and nonbinary authors. I felt some of the authors here wrote better books than the ones they've listed, but I just noticed that this is from 2019 (JKR has been TERFing it up for awhile) so it's possible that those weren't out yet.
An exposé of Lauren O'Neil and the "BlogTO claims that Montreal antifa are descending on the city to riot" fiasco.
Confessions of a bastard cop. This is a long but really important read. A former cop reflects on his job and how it's structurally beyond reform even if there may be some well-meaning people in the system.
Masculinity as radical selfishness. Rebecca Solnit looks at gender, racism, and care. It's really good.
Why violent protests work. A hard look at why calls for peaceful protest only tends to be wishful thinking rather than how political change actually works. From, of all places, GQ.
Not to be out-radicalled by GQ, TeenVogue also has an article on BLM and co-optation. Their take is more optimistic than mine from the other day but let's hope they're right and I'm wrong.
Joy Ellison wrote a really good piece with advice for fellow white people wanting to stand in solidarity with Black folks.
So did you know that Seattle anarchists seized a police station, made an autonomous zone, and it's been going strong for a whole day? This is why Seattle is my favourite American city, y'all. Long live the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone!
Finally, a weird article about how horseshoe crabs bleed blue and are used in vaccine research.
