Author: Dark Daughta

if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me. if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you,

if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me. if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you,

Difficult and challenging place filled with many, many oppressive people whose sexualities and desires are so reinforcing of dominant values and dynamics that I’ve found it difficult to breathe around them. There are racists, misogynists, classists, homophobes, ableist people, islamophobes, fat phobes, ageists, so, so many different kinds of FAIL

Why does the media still refer to “Bradley” Manning? The Curious Silence Around a Transgender Hero By Emily Manuel One of the most persistent threads throughout the two years of imprisonment of accused Wikileaks leaker Private Bradley Manning has been the rumour that he is in fact, she–a transgender woman.

if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me. if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you,

Occupy Portland Outsmarts Police, Creating Blueprint for Other Occupations by Lester Macgurdy The Portland Occupation stumbled upon a tactical innovation regarding occupying public spaces. This evolution in tactics was spontaneous, and went unreported in the media. On December 3rd, we took a park and were driven out of it by

Hactivists become heroes of the voiceless Censored NewsThe hacktivists at AntiSec are becoming the heroes for the voiceless, the only place to turn for those who are beaten by police, or victimized by the ruthless.With their typical humor, and genius, AntiSec released ‘Suckerpunching Sunday’ today.Those in power, who long believed

Report concludes British riots provoked by police brutality and povertyBy Julie Hyland The first comprehensive investigation into the riots that swept London and other parts of England in August has confirmed that police brutality, poverty and social inequality were the primary motivating factors in their eruption. The “Reading the Riots”

if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me. if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you,

Russell Means on Al Jazeera Thanks Taking if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me. if what you’re reading here grips

what else could have kept a little black child with a vivid imagination from despairing but a world full of dragons and their brilliant, brave riders? Anne McCaffrey dies at 85; award-winning fantasy fiction writer Anne McCaffrey wrote two dozen ‘Dragonriders of Pern’ novels. She was the first woman to

Police evict Occupy Toronto protesters By Carl Bronski; 25 November 2011 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/toro-n25.shtml Toronto police moved in at dawn on Wednesday to evict supporters of the international Occupy movement from their encampment at St. James Cathedral Park. Over a hundred tents were dismantled and removed. There were eleven arrests. That

Countdown to Canada’s polygamy/polyamory ruling At 1 p.m. EST tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 23), the Supreme Court of British Columbia will announce its ruling on the constitutionality of Canada’s broad anti-polygamy and anti-polyamory law. We’ll post news here ASAP, along with the official response from the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association (CPAA)

AW@L Statement of Support for G20 Resisters and of Continued Resistance Against Colonial Capitalism It has been a year and a half since the most massive police operation in canadian history targeted our communities and abducted our friends into the grips of the (in)justice system. In this billion-dollar ‘security’ operation,

after what the police did (and got away with) before, during and after the g20/g8 occupation of toronto, this offers at least a little satisfaction…even if it’s only one beest being targeted. “you are cowards and bullies. tools of the corrupt. puppets for your masters.” if what you’re reading here

Are the Freedom Rides a detour for the struggle?Linah Alsaafin Is Palestine’s an anti-colonial or civil rights struggle?(Ryan Rodrick Beiler) Last week, six courageous Palestinians attempted to defy racism, segregation and apartheid by boarding Jewish settler-only buses in the hopes of reaching Jerusalem, a city off limits to Palestinians in

The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of ‘mental illness’ rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are commonly diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions.

Unsettling America t/here i found this… Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland Waziyatawin is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the eradication of colonial institutions. Waziyatawin comes from

So, I’ve been having communication with some feminists in a distinctly non-political online sexual space called fetlife, where there are still radically political people present, even if in such small numbers that the site does not feel their presence or show any signs of transforming in the face of the

I loved this. Although, without an analysis of power and domination, the ending seems a little liberal in that it could just as easily be used by someone who is being asked to be less oppressive by a group of people who have less privilege. A dose of context and