Tag: marginalization
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No Competition of Hierarchies Should Prevail: Identity Politics, Strategic Essentialism, Rhizomes, Punk, and Oppression Olympics
Identity politics can be employed to simultaneously uplift marginalised members of society and deconstruct the mechanisms of their marginalisation. Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics – YouTube Identity politics can be one tool we use to override our discomfort with others and instead draw together into coalition. We should use it as…
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None of Us Ashes, All of Us Flames: Let’s Organize Our Lives Around Love and Care
Ezra Furman’s “All of Us Flames” is an anthem for we the neurodivergent, queer, disabled, and weird. This is music by and for the edges, for the canaries. This is a call to community for the subaltern and the dispossessed. Our survival is bound up together in the gutter adversity. We may only be subordinates…
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Stop, Hammer Time: It’s not Science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. When you measure include the measurer.
It’s not Science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. When you measure include the measurer. MC Hammer I would insist on the embodied nature of all vision and so reclaim the sensory system that has been used to signify a leap out of the marked body and into a conquering gaze from nowhere. This…