June 2013
8 posts
Northern Spark: Power Surge - The Loft Literary Center →
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So here’s a little ditty I wrote about Northern Spark (and, specifically, about Paul Herwig’s installation Working from Home) for the Loft Literary Center. It involves insides and outsides and the kind of meat it attracts. You know, poet things.
May 2013
22 posts
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Balancing Jane: Guest Post: Sexism in the 23rd Century →
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My friend Michelle let me be a geek on her blog today. It’s Star Trek month in Kristinlandia.
“I wonder what responsibility Hollywood has to continuing Roddenberry’s vision of diversity? …The sexism of The Original Series was sexism of the 1960s and Star Trek Into Darkness, though a great action movie of 2013, does nothing to further Roddenberry’s vision of a more diverse, more connected universe.”
Right on, Fitzy, right on.
How Anonymous got involved in fighting for justice for rape victims →
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Mother Jones’s Josh Harkinson has an excellent piece on the history of KnightSec, an Anonymous offshoot that publicized the Steubenville and Halifax rape cases, galvanizing both the public and police responses to both. The piece includes an interview with Michelle McKee, who is credited with swaying a critical mass of Anons to participation in KnightSec. […]
