It's International Blog Against Racism Week! Check out ibarw for updates and links.

My plans to do a couple of longer postings this year have fallen through, so what I'd like to is to share with you some of the links I bookmarked when researching my essay for a forthcoming volume of Time, Unincorporated. I'll group them into broad subject areas. Here ( Read more... )

International Blog Against Racism Week 2009 runs from 27 July - 2 August. And I ain't ready. I had mad plans to write up a big essay on slavery in Australia (oh yes) but I just haven't managed to do it in time. Next year. I will post the links I collected while writing my Time Unincorporated essay, though.

You can see all the blog entries submitted for International Blog Against Racism Week on www.delicious.com, here:
http://delicious.com/ibarw/ibarw3

Couple of quick recs:

rainbowjehan's drily humorous review of The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equianohttp://rainbowjehan.livejournal.com/836267.html ( Read more... )

It's International Blog Against Racism Week! For more info, visit ibarw.

"So... what are you?

I snagged The Business of Fancydancing on the recommendation of qthewetsprocket. It's about four friends from the Spokane Reservation: one left, one tried to leave, one deliberately returned, and one took his own life. All of them face the hugely complicated question of the ( Read more... )

It's International Blog Against Racism Week! For more info, visit ibarw.

UFO was a British TV series first screened in 1970, but set in the 1980s. A secret organisation, with one base hidden under a film studio and another on the moon, protects Earth from aliens who hatch all sorts of improbable schemes in their quest to harvest human organs. Jon, who ( Read more... )

It's International Blog Against Racism Week! For more info, visit ibarw.I want to pimp to you a great resource chocka with info, both specifically about racism and colonialism, and generally about the cultures of the world: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National podcasts ( Read more... )

I do believe that International Blog Against Racism Week is coming up in August, so there's plenty of time for my mad plan: ask you all to read one book (or watch one movie) and then review it during the week ( Read more... )

Get Up! Action for Australia - send an email right now to oppose the government's hasty, ill-conceived new law on Aboriginal child abuse. Parliament votes this Tuesday! (More information about the proposed law hereAs it's the last day of International Blog Against Racism Week, I thought I'd collect up all the links I've bookmarked. Thanks to ( Read more... )

Yes, it's still International Blog Against Racism Week. :-) Check out ibarw for info and links ( Read more... )

I have another book rec for you! I just found an online extract from Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned, a small book - almost a zine - which I picked up in DC some years ago. It was my first introduction to attempting to keep one's foot clear of one's mouth - and one of my earliest introductions to looking at the world from a ( Read more... )