The Wife of Wrath

oystermag: Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion, This Is How...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:40:42 -0400

oystermag:

Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion, This Is How Tumblr Users Are Reacting

How I’m reacting: Fuck you David Karp.

terrysdiary: The Rolling Stones shot by Me for Rolling Stone…...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:28:27 -0400

terrysdiary:

The Rolling Stones shot by Me for Rolling Stone… out now!

So the other night I was at a party, and I was talking with this PhD student about how critical...

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:05:41 -0400

So the other night I was at a party, and I was talking with this PhD student about how critical theory ruins your life. And then we played a game where you come up with ridiculous grad school proposals. And then I spend 20 minutes deconstructing a hypothetical bowl of fruit.

Critical Theory, it ruins your life.

fotojournalismus: Not So Long Ago, In Iraq (via Vanity...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:30:19 -0400

by Bruno Stevens

by Lynsey Addario

by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images

by Chris Hondros/Getty Images

by Ed KashiI/VII

by Ashley Gilbertson/VII

by Guy Calaf

by Eros Hoagland/Redux

by Yuri Kozyrev/Noor

by Farah Nosh

fotojournalismus:

Not So Long Ago, In Iraq

(via Vanity Fair)

“It hasn’t taken long for the Iraq war to feel like a relic of history. Although U.S. troops withdrew from the conflict a mere 17 months ago, the story of the war already seems set in a bygone era—circumstances that have quickly been buried under an avalanche of newer crises. Photojournalist Michael Kamber, who covered the war for The New York Times from 2003 to 2012, noticed America’s desire to tune out the war while the battles were still raging. Visiting home while on leave during the war’s early years, Kamber grew frustrated that Americans were ill informed about the conflict, leading, he felt, to a public that didn’t care enough about the bloodshed he was documenting. His frustration grew as the conflict wore on, as the U.S. military took an active role in encouraging public indifference by censoring what could be photographed.

Now Kamber has responded with Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, a riveting account of the conflict as told by three dozen of the war’s most prominent photographers. Kamber’s interviews with his colleagues cover the war as they saw it—their passion for the story, their fears and daily complications, and the trauma they live with still today. Some of their images are among the most iconic of the war, some are previously unpublished, and many are gruesome, shocking, and utterly dispiriting.

The book is out on May 15, 2013, via University of Texas Press.”

Photographs :

1. Six weeks before the start of the war, a man sits drinking tea at the Al Zahawi cafe on Rashid Street, Baghdad, February 12, 2003. (Bruno Stevens)

2. An Iraqi woman walks through a plume of smoke rising from a massive fire at a liquid gas factory as she searches for her husband. The fire was allegedly started by looters picking through the factory. Basra, May 26, 2003. (Lynsey Addario)

3. An Iraqi child jumps over remains of victims found in a mass grave south of Baghdad. The victims were killed by Saddam Hussein’s government during a Shiite uprising here following the 1991 Gulf War. Al Musayyib, May 27, 2003. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

4. Samar Hassan,5, screams moments after her parents were killed by U.S soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division. The troops fired on the Hassan-family car when it unwittingly approached during a dusk patrol in the tense northern town. Tal Afar, January 18, 2005. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

5. Soldiers of the First Armored Division swim at Uday Hussein’s abandoned palace. Baghdad, July 11, 2003. (Ed Kashi/VII)

6. 1,215 U.S.-military personnel pray during a massive re-enlistment ceremony in Al Faw Palace, one of Saddam Hussein’s former luxurious homes. Baghdad, July 4, 2008. (Ashley Gilbertson/VII)

7. A U.S. soldier watches an Iraqi man who collapsed while being arrested during a raid. Ramadi, January 24, 2006. (Guy Calaf)

8. A man is arrested by U.S. soldiers on suspicion of corruption and complicity in working with anti-coalition insurgents. Baiji, February 8, 2008. (Eros Hoagland/Redux)

9. A U.S. soldier marks the back of a man’s neck with numbers denoting his neighborhood and home, a system designed to help troops determine if people were moving around the village of Qubah despite a lockdown following a U.S. attack on insurgents. Qubah, March 24, 2007. (Yuri Kozyrev/Noor)

10. Rena was nine months pregnant and walking with her youngest sister in Sadr City one day in 2008, when a U.S. air strike tore off her leg, killing her unborn infant and her sister. Sadr City, February 2009. (Farah Nosh)

Research council's makeover leaves Canadian industry setting the agenda

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:09:26 -0400

Research council's makeover leaves Canadian industry setting the agenda:

The National Research Council, which gave the country canola and the atomic clock, will now be taking its scientific cues from Canadian industry as part of a makeover of the country’s flagship research labs.

The overhaul, quietly begun two years ago and formally unveiled Tuesday, means the 97-year-old NRC will focus on a clutch of large-scale, business-driven research projects at the expense of the basic science that was once at its core. The Conservative government says it wants to leverage the NRC’s world-class resources – everything from wind tunnels and ice tanks to high-powered microscopes – to help reverse the country’s chronically lagging innovation performance.

…

The move is in keeping with the Conservative government’s emphasis on a business model for public policy, such as tying foreign aid to economic development. It is also another significant foray into the science file, with critics saying the new approach is shortsighted and may shut the door on vast areas of promising fundamental research.

just a great day to be a canadian citizen, isn’t it?

organize.

To the Non-Voters

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:25:02 -0400

Hey BC,

48% of you are lazy and/or apathetic, and it’s bullshit.

Democratically-elected leaders have mandates and exist in the public realm because WE vote (or apparently don’t vote) for them. If you can’t take a few minutes to inform yourself and then go take part in a process that other countries have fought, and are still fighting, civil wars to take part in, then there is something wrong with you, not the system.

Pretending these elections don’t affect our lives, healthcare, education, and the environment we live in is ignorant.

Don’t agree with any party? Then spoil your ballot and go organize: there is no excuse.

(And fyi, you should be engaged and organizing the rest of time, too.)

There are ways to vote ahead of time or from out of province, if that’s your situation.

I’m appalled.

my rant at the flying v

Amity in the City: Only 52% of British Columbians Cast Their Ballots - All-Time Low

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:22:26 -0400

Amity in the City: Only 52% of British Columbians Cast Their Ballots - All-Time Low:

amityinthecity:

The voter turnout for the recent BC election was said to be among the lowest ever with only approximately 52% of eligible voters casting a ballot. I, personally, have never been so disappointed to call myself a British Columbian. I mean, really, what happened? Are we all so self-absorbed and…

The FJP: Is the "Rolling Disaster" Continuing at The Times-Picayune?

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:31:20 -0400

The FJP: Is the "Rolling Disaster" Continuing at The Times-Picayune?:

futurejournalismproject:

Almost a year ago, New Orleans’ Times-Picayune cut staff, announced that it would stop publishing a daily newspaper in favor of three days a week and tired to pivot to digital first at NOLA.com.

A year into the process The Columbia Journalism Review calls strategic decisions made over the last…

warrenreview: Believe it or not,the old woman said,and I tried to picture it:a girl,the polished...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:06:55 -0400

warrenreview:

Believe it or not,
the old woman said,
and I tried to picture it:
a girl,
the polished white ribs of a roast
tied to her boots with twine,
the twine coated with candle wax
so she could glide
uninterrupted
across the ice—
my mother,
skating on bones.

J. Lorraine Brown, “Tintype on the Pond, 1925”
via The Poetry Foundation

Happy Mother’s Day!

I got this.

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:33:04 -0400

I got this.

"Some things are inherent to the earth and thus belong democratically to all its inhabitants. Air and..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:30:44 -0400

“Some things are inherent to the earth and thus belong democratically to all its inhabitants. Air and water, for example, are part of the public domain and should be forbidden in the marketplace. Seeds—always part of the great commons of human history—can no more be owned than fire. Or the ocean. And yet, the biotechnology industry has steadily made its way through the courts and legislative halls like an evil maggot, claiming what does not belong to it, saying life can be owned. And it can’t, Monsanto. It can’t, Syngenta.”

- Janisse Ray, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

meganfennya: For the past five months I’ve held an internship...

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:57:31 -0400

meganfennya:

For the past five months I’ve held an internship at Hugo House, a centre for writers and lyricists in Seattle, where I learned so much that my brain expanded and I had to buy bigger hats.

Among many projects, I helped organize Eat Read Hugo, the House’s annual benefit. The event went down last month, and we raised over $100,000 towards Hugo House programs, which include writers in residence terms, workshops and classes in creative writing, literary series readings, youth writing clubs, and cool events like “Cheap Wine and Poetry.”

Vancouver needs a centre like Hugo House. Writers in Vancouver need a place to read, write, and talk about writing. Like any creative profession, writing is hard. A supportive community like the one that Hugo House fosters in Seattle, however, make it easier for us to identify ourselves as nerdy, introverted word magicians. Spread the word.

Hugo Houses for everywhere

Event page here, see you on May 22nd!

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:48:52 -0400

Event page here, see you on May 22nd!

The Warren Undergraduate Review: Ten Questions with Hansmole

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:45:34 -0400

The Warren Undergraduate Review: Ten Questions with Hansmole:

warrenreview:

The name comes from a nickname that my friend Rodney gave me in high school. People call me Han or Hans a lot, so he made it into a Hans Moleman joke—I guess. A couple years ago I needed a Tumblr handle, so I used that one, and it’s become a pseudonym. No one seems to be able to…

Fuck you Times Square; I’m losing my mind.

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:52:10 -0400

Fuck you Times Square; I’m losing my mind.

"There have been 694 proposed abortion restriction provisions in the first three months of 2013..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 09:48:22 -0400

“There have been 694 proposed abortion restriction provisions in the first three months of 2013 alone.”

- Guttmacher Institute, via ThinkProgress (via actualfactsaboutabortion)

afrodiaspores: Black, Chicana, and First Nations radical...

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:48:54 -0400

afrodiaspores:

Black, Chicana, and First Nations radical socialist and anarchist labor organizer Lucy E. [González or Gonzales] Parsons (1853-1942) ca. 1920.

“Feared by the authorities because of her charismatic fiery speeches and intellect, the first Afro-Latina woman of color to engage prominently in the history of the Leftist American labor movement was labeled as ‘more dangerous than a thousand rioters’ by the Chicago Police Department.”

William Loren Katz writes in a passage adapted from Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage,

A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across the country and overseas. Lucy Gonzales started life in Texas. She was of Mexican American, African American, and Native American descent and born into slavery. The path she chose after emancipation led to conflict with the Ku Klux Klan, hard work, painful personal losses, and many nights in jail. In Albert Parsons, a white man whose Waco Spectator fought the Klan and demanded social and political equality for African Americans, she found a handsome, committed soul mate. The white supremacy forces in Texas considered the couple dangerous and their marriage illegal, and soon drove them from the state…

She was one of only two women delegates (the other was Mother Jones) among the 200 men at the founding convention of the militant Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the only woman to speak…

Lucy Parsons’ determined effort to elevate and inspire the oppressed to take command remained alive among those who knew, heard, and loved her. But few today are aware of her insights, courage, and tenacity. Despite her fertile mind, writing and oratorical skills, and striking beauty, Lucy Parsons has not found a place in school texts, social studies curricula, or Hollywood movies.

Damnnnn.

"More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men..."

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:36:16 -0400

“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in ALL the battles of the 20th century.

More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any ONE decade, than people were slaughtered in ALL the genocides of the 20th century.”

- Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky

Read that AGAIN.

(via kateoplis)

Read that and THEN see if you want to complain about misandry or call it “a real problem”

(via fuckingrapeculture)

But actually fuck Nick Kristof.

rosswolfe: Eve of revolution. May Day, Petrograd 1917.

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:01:49 -0400

rosswolfe:

Eve of revolution. May Day, Petrograd 1917.

Climate change scientist calls Conservatives 'Neanderthal'

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:59:07 -0400

Climate change scientist calls Conservatives 'Neanderthal':

Climate change activist James Hansen says Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s criticism of him shows the Conservative government is desperate and worried the Keystone XL pipeline won’t be approved, and he describes its approach to climate change as ‘Neanderthal.’

The Wife of Wrath

oystermag: Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1 Billion, This Is How...

terrysdiary: The Rolling Stones shot by Me for Rolling Stone…...

So the other night I was at a party, and I was talking with this PhD student about how critical...

fotojournalismus: Not So Long Ago, In Iraq (via Vanity...

Research council's makeover leaves Canadian industry setting the agenda

To the Non-Voters

Amity in the City: Only 52% of British Columbians Cast Their Ballots - All-Time Low

The FJP: Is the "Rolling Disaster" Continuing at The Times-Picayune?

warrenreview: Believe it or not,the old woman said,and I tried to picture it:a girl,the polished...

I got this.

"Some things are inherent to the earth and thus belong democratically to all its inhabitants. Air and..."

meganfennya: For the past five months I’ve held an internship...

Event page here, see you on May 22nd!

The Warren Undergraduate Review: Ten Questions with Hansmole

Fuck you Times Square; I’m losing my mind.

"There have been 694 proposed abortion restriction provisions in the first three months of 2013..."

afrodiaspores: Black, Chicana, and First Nations radical...

"More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men..."

rosswolfe: Eve of revolution. May Day, Petrograd 1917.

Climate change scientist calls Conservatives 'Neanderthal'

Not embarrassing at all….

Research council's makeover leaves Canadian industry setting the agenda