In Uefa's sad world a pair of marketed underpants is worse than racism
Uefa needs to explain how it can fine Nicklas Bendtner £80,000 for showing his underpants when Porto had to pay only £16,700 for their fans' racist abuse earlier this season
SERIOUSLY! This man may be an idiot, but ffs, take a look at how racism is fined compared with the fine he ( Read more... )

In a debate called “Am I Black Enough for You?” - which was held in the Netherlands - Dutch black artists discussed the perspective of being a black artist in a European country. Does black in The Netherlands mean the same as black in Anglo-American regions? Should you present yourself as being from an immigrant background, as multicultural or as ( Read more... )

News of today: Apparently dream catchers are 'gypsy' now. What's next, the vuelie* is suddenly *insert racist term for Native Americans*? Bah.

*the vueilie is the South Sami word for the melody, which each member of the Sami culture gets a couple of years after they are born. They can be used instead of the name and each person have their own ( Read more... )

The harassment of religion grows globally
Google Translate of Danish article by Kristelig Dagblad

It notes the independent American forskningsinsitut Pew Forum report "Rising Restrictions on religion" (Growing restrictions on religion). Ifølge Pew Forum er problemet vokset betydeligt mellem 2006 og 2009. According to the Pew Forum, the problem has ( Read more... )

Det yderste højre bruger teenagepiger i propagandakrig
Den yderste højrefløj i Danmark bruger i stigende grad unge piger til at fremme deres sag. Senest har Trykkefrihedsselskabet udbredt en video med en kun 17-årig pige, som hylder Muhammedtegneren Kurt Westergaard.

To the non-Danes: the article is about an example of the use of teenage girls in ( Read more... )

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Still an awesome - and true, sadly - song.

Not Your Exotic, Not your Erotic
by Suheir HammadDon’t wanna be you’re exotic like some dark, fragile colorful bird, imprisoned, caged in a land foreign to the stretch of her wings ( Read more... )

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( the poem written down )

Okay, wait, what, SPN fandom? I'm not impressed, I am really not impressed. Apparently a SPN author decided - while they were still digging out the bodies from the earth quake - that using the Haitian earth quake as scene for J2 buttsecks was an A+ idea. And now that she's being called out on it? Well, fics like this aren't for everyone and she ( Read more... )

So this fictional women, especially WOC, vs slash discussion that is going on atm... it should be right up my alley, right? Women! Gay rights! Racism! Weee! ...except we have had this discussion oh-so-many times. I've been following fandom in, what, almost ten years now (seriously. Almost ten years. Fuck) and this discussion comes up minimum every ( Read more... )