Sunday Reading

L.E. Long:

• Political Concepts: Lexicon Vol. 1
• Habits of French colonialism (Vijay Prashad on colonialism in Mali)
• Black Women in the Labor Movement: Interviews with Clara Day & Johnnie Jackson
• The Irony of MLK Day 2013: A Renewed Invitation into White Supremacy
• Carceral feminism and the war on sex workers
• Columnism, complicity and crisis
• 5 Things I Learned About Abortion by Checking My Assumptions at the Door
• I watched the marathon, 9+ hour Oakland City Council meeting last night
• David Harvey, anarchism, and tightly-coupled systems
• Videos from Tuesday's Oakland City Council meeting
• A plan for a safer Oakland: Critical Resistance
• Depression and Money, Some Real Talk
• 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle reports on sexual bullying online (audio)
• Facial weaponization: Fag Face Communique
• Nicole Cook retires from cycling, her statement on sexism & drugging in the sport
• "in the NFL the writing on the wall is always written directly on the body."
• Saturday Night's Children: Danitra Vance (1985-1986)
• Citizens Untied: Parody in the Age of Corporate Media
• COBA: Rules for children in the Roman anti-fascist resistance
• THEM AND US . I.- The (un)reasonables above.
• A black bloc emerges in Cairo

nathan jurgenson

• "Seeing this as only a story about digital technologies & their risks is to overlook how cultural communication is"
• "That was before Apple washed Siri’s mouth out with soap and curbed many of its talents"
• "23 women have joined a class-action lawsuit against the “revenge porn” website"
• "there is something disturbingly misogynistic about online bullying"
• "Drones are already literary, and they might only be dealt with on a literary basis"
• "fiction is a fantastically useful arena to do social theory, yet it’s one that most social scientists roundly ignore"
• "The digital environment is not a parallel or purely virtual world"
• "Millennials, the ascendant economic force in America, have been culturally programmed to borrow, rent and share"
• "Even if this is a faked baby with a faked Google street view, it's still real"
• "she perfectly embodies the perception of how tweens perceive 'social media fame' as 'fame'"
• "the picture is as much about taking an iPhone photo as it is about representing the damaged airliner"
• "JSTOR is a rent extraction mechanism that perpetuates fundamental inequalities"
• “what is Elsevier going to do with Mendeley that warrants uninstalling it from you computer?”
• "Harvard has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals"
• "do everything in our power to make sure no papers ever end up behind pay walls again"
• "The result is an inscrutable montage of wonder, which is a perfectly Grimes-worthy aesthetic"
• "If youve ever thought the Baudrillardian hyperreal was just postmodernist nonsense, Megan Fox is the perfect antidote"
• "scholars have bought into the rhetoric of globalization such that they’ve begun to ignore geography"
• hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com; tweetpairing.tumblr.com; wtfevolution.tumblr.com; actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com

T.F. Charlton:

• "So, what was Stonewall?" - NPR's erasure of trans women from the Stonewall narrative.
• Interrogating the Nordic model - Criminalizing people who pay for sex instead of sex workers doesn't decrease violence against sex workers
• Body Impolitic - How expectations of "modesty" impact trans and intersex people
• Why Theresa Spence Is Still on a Hunger Strike
• Gawking at Korean women is not thoughtful analysis of beauty standards
• Beverly Wildung Harrison's pioneering scholarship on Christian Feminist Ethics
• Privilege and the White Dude Super-Detective

Roe v. Wade at 40:

• Shannelle Matthews: Abortion, Race, and the Power of Story
• Shark-Fu: I do not blog for choice. I blog for Reproductive Justice
• Christopher Roberts: Are We Our Choices?
• Zerandrian Morris: Masculine-of-center voices on Roe v. Wade
• Dani McClain: What Keeps Black Women from Going Public with Our Stories?
• Flyover Feminism's Roe at 40 series

Frank Pasquale:

• Internet access as human right; more on positive rights.
• Money freed from tax can pay interest or software engineers.
• Investor-friendly regulation amplifies banking crises.
• One-stop shopping for criticism of Wal-Mart.
• Surveillance & sousveillance.
• The desperate search for lawful CCTV & Billy Idol-inspired countermeasures.
• Squatters & plotters & other real estate profit opportunities.
• Young accountants reprimanded for "actually auditing."
• 2 futures: micro-kiosk restaurants or Xanadu McWorld.
• GraphSearch bores; envy soars; misuses galore.
• Populist, Catholic governor axes hospice for Medicaid; inconvenient principles.

Kerim Friedman:

• The Samoan Roots of the Manti Te'o Hoax - Ilana Gershon
• “Kennedy’s tax plan was exactly what Republicans today recommend”
• Clues to Early Age of Exploration Found in Sweet Potato Genome
• The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
• The War on Sex Workers
• The 20 Most Racist Things Rush Limbaugh Has Ever Said
• John Campbell on Schizophrenia

Reclaim UC:

• Thoughts and deeds of Mark Yudof: A resignation reader
• The new campus bankers
• The scary economics of higher education
• Some historical notes on the decline of the universities
• Teachers financing guns
• "[A] mild-mannered British professor named Stephen Graham . . . was found guilty on Friday of using a screwdriver to carve messages such as 'very silly,' 'really wrong,' and 'arbitrary' into the paintwork of luxury vehicles."
• On MLA 2013
• Lip-syncing the poetry of empire
• Beyond Bratton
• Better ways to throw away a quarter of a million dollars
• Stop-and-frisk as sexual assault
• "Demonstrators had already been exchanging volleys of rocks and tear gas for hours when the Ultras arrived with a roar, shooting flame throwers and beaming green laser pointers at the government troops on the opposite side of the wall."
• The means of reproduction: An interview with Silvia Federici