[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- 58,000-year-old glue and paint factory found in Africa
- [io9]
[More importantly, how did they stop their kids from huffing the glue? Because as we all know, the War on Drugs is universal. Oh, wait. -L]
- A brief history of international space suits
- [io9]
Interested in seeing what stylish astronauts the world over have been wearing since the dawn of manned space flight? Glad you asked, because the blokes at Space.com have combined his handy chart. [Space]
- LINKAGE: Black Fashion Museum « threadbared
- [i heart thread bared, via Feminists With Disabilities]
Museums and other archival institutions typically display the extraordinary rather than the ordinary, the First Lady’s inauguration ball gown rather than her J.Crew shorts. But because of the implausible convergence of racial, gender, sexual, class, and language barriers that confront non-White and working women, their lives and their accomplishments were not deemed extraordinary in their time. The material evidence of these lives not considered important enough to save or to study. Museums and other archival institutions that privilege white middle and upper class women’s experiences collude in the ongoing marginalization and erasure of the material cultural histories of minoritized American women.
- Experiences of Transgendered Profs a Case Study in Sexism | Women's Rights | Change.org
- [Change.org, via Feminists With Disabilities]
In an excerpt published in the Australian newspaper The Age, The Hidden Brain author Shankar Vedantam discusses the different post-transition experiences of transgendered Stanford professors Ben Barres and Joan Roughgarden. Unsurprisingly, they paint a depressing picture of the prevalence of sexism even in the supposedly egalitarian world of university research.
- Where About Us But Without Us Leads
- [FWD/Feminists With Disabilities]
Dr Torrey is the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), a nonprofit group whose sole purpose is to lobby states for the passage of so-called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) laws like Kendra’s Law in New York and Laura’s Law in California. The New York law is named after Kendra Webdale, who was killed by Andrew Goldstein in 1999.
Dr Torrey and TAC will tell you Mr Goldstein had untreated schizophrenia.
…the assistance provided in assisted outpatient treatment is the armed force of the state ensuring that persons who fall under the purview of this law and those like it comply with any and all aspects of the court-ordered treatment plan. Assisted outpatient treatment is strictly from Minority Report — the person needs have no actual history of violence and need not be judged to be in immanent danger of harming ouself or others.
…damn near anyone can file a petition to have a person placed under assisted outpatient treatment, including any adult room mates, parents, spouses, adult children or adult siblings of the person. There are confidentiality problems with the way information is treated under the law, distributing clinical information about persons with AOT orders to mental health facilities across the state.
And it’s not necessary. Andrew Goldstein had been seeking treatment. The non-coercive parts of Kendra’s Law, the grants for community treatment and medications, those are helpful and helping. We need access to effective community treatment. Unfortunately in this age of budget shortfalls and funding cuts I don’t see access to community mental health treatment increasing.
…Dr Torrey knows how to save everyone from us. He just has to convince enough people that we shouldn’t have the same rights to due process as everyone else.
- Even The Queen. And Other Stories.
- [Echidne of the Snakes]
Moonbootica linked to this informative and fun video about female writers of science fiction and fantasy:
It doesn't cover all the famous women of those genres but it's a start…
- Belgium Welcomes First Baby Snow Leopard
- [ZooBorns]
- Photo of the Day
- [Shakesville]
Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden, and a bunch of Muppets.
- Making It True
- [Talking Points Memo]
There's a bunch of edifying new articles in the Israeli press this morning about the Flotilla incident earlier this week. But I think the most apt may be Gideon Levy's column in today's Ha'aretz, not because it sheds any new particular light on the raid itself but because of what it says about the big picture which is basically that Netanyahu's vision of Israel living in an 'everybody's against us' world is drawing the country closer and closer to a world in which that's the reality.
In truth it goes beyond Netanyahu.
…it's powerful because it's got a vast storehouse of history behind it.
- Did Citibank Fire A Woman For Being "Too Attractive"?
- [Shakesville]
…that's what they told her they were firing her for.
…let's recap, shall we? This woman goes to work in a bank. She is constantly criticized for her appearance, ordered to cover herself more than other women in the bank, and eventually fired from her job so that the men whom she worked for could avoid having to control themselves.
It's the ultimate expression of the dudebro culture, the rape culture, the kyriarchy, the idea that a woman can be so attractive that no man should be expected to, y'know, not force his unwanted attention on her. And it's only a short step from there to can't be expected not to force himself on her.
It is one of the bitter aspects of the kyriarchy and how it treats women's bodies, and women in general, that even those women who succeed most visibly at meeting the kyriarchy's expectations of them will end up being punished for being women.
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