So, the SuperBowl came and went. They guy who did not rape two women was chosen as the MVP. I got a text message from a friend at about 5pm yesterday asking me “Packers or Steelers?” and I replied with “a bullet to my head…my team’s arch rivals or a two-time rapist. ugh.” Given that [...]
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The SuperBowl Is Over And The Non-Rapist Is Going To Disneyland
Posted by sexgenderbody on February 9, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-superbowl-is-over-and-the-non-rapist-is-going-to-disneyland/
Cartographies Of Struggle
As the eldest daughter of a Hindu family, I am expected to occupy a number of spaces that intertwine, merge and blur with the larger idea or identity that I like to believe is me, somewhere inside, that will still remain once the layers of cultural expectations, communally re-enforced values are taken away, not to [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 22, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/cartographies-of-struggle/
Sub-Merged Margins And Us
Last week while returning a couple of books at the library, I saw the woman in the line next to mine was holding a copy of ‘Writing Caste, Writing Gender‘, a book I’ve read cover-to-cover a few times. She saw me looking at the book and started a conversation about the editor and how this was [...]
Posted by Jaded on January 3, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/sub-merged-margins-and-us/
When Freedoms Are Threatened, #1
There comes a time in American politics where the Politicians take certain movements too far. Such as the banning of Gays in the military. Or the attempts to ban Firearms, and Violent Video Games (in California, no less.) What they try to make a point in, is that by taking away violence in video games, [...]
Posted by wallamazoo on November 24, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/when-freedoms-are-threatened-1/
David Cameron, What A Racist
David Cameron, our benevolent and democratically-leader, here in the U.K, recently made a speech about the widespread problem of terrorism which the world currently faces, and the causes there of. You might be surprised to discover that this speech is almost entirely devoid of racism! Cameron instead focuses on actual and true facts, that just [...]
Posted by Jaded on February 15, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/david-cameron-what-a-racist/