Thursday, October 19, 2017
Domestic Violence Awareness - Week of Action
I'm coming late to the week - somehow it fell off my radar, and I was thinking it was next week.
Today is #PurpleThursday: you can click on the graphic below to sign in and show your support (and, if you haven't already left the house, put on something purple!)
For more information about the remaining days in the Week of Action, and Awareness Month, go to the NNEDV website!
Today is #PurpleThursday: you can click on the graphic below to sign in and show your support (and, if you haven't already left the house, put on something purple!)
For more information about the remaining days in the Week of Action, and Awareness Month, go to the NNEDV website!
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Important Resources on the failure of Education in Texas - from the Texas Freedom Network
Education
With a public school
enrollment of more than 5 million, Texas has an increasingly diverse public
education system. Unfortunately, that public education system is also the
target of politicians seeking to privatize our neighborhood public schools and
push a culture-war agenda in the classroom.
To that end, the Texas
Freedom Network – while continuing to fight private school voucher legislation
at the Capitol – has conducted groundbreaking research into what is being taught
in classrooms on subjects like sex education and religion.
RESOURCES
Monday, October 16, 2017
If you're reading this ...
If you're reading this blog, and have some ideas about contributing, drop me a note.
It's an easy thing to share with others, whether as contributors, resource gatherers, editors, liaisons, etc.
Though I have put some moderately personal reflections on here, it's not about me. The blog is about things that will help the local community. It's about helping the people who need to get heard to be heard.
It just comes down to the four goals of the blog:
It's an easy thing to share with others, whether as contributors, resource gatherers, editors, liaisons, etc.
Though I have put some moderately personal reflections on here, it's not about me. The blog is about things that will help the local community. It's about helping the people who need to get heard to be heard.
It just comes down to the four goals of the blog:
- Get smart;
- Stand up;
- Speak out;
- Shelter each other.
If you want to contribute/participate, like I said, just let me know. I'm happy to share.
Helpers always need more helpers.
Men Who Wish to Be Allies to Women: 12 Things You Need to Know
[Handy, timely tips - link to the full article below]
Hello, I’m glad you care about women’s rights and want to be an ally!
This makes you a decent human being. Not to mention on the right side of history.
You may have witnessed an upsurge of toxic masculinity lately – say, for example, the entire second presidential debate – drawing attention to what has always been here under the surface but, perhaps, hasn’t always been as visible to you.
You might’ve even experienced some degree of guilt or shame for being a man when some men are acting in such vile, repugnant ways and making decisions for women without actually listening to women.
We’re all trying our best to be good people in the world and this shit is complicated.But there are a few things you might want to know. I wrote this for you.
Hello, I’m glad you care about women’s rights and want to be an ally!
This makes you a decent human being. Not to mention on the right side of history.
You may have witnessed an upsurge of toxic masculinity lately – say, for example, the entire second presidential debate – drawing attention to what has always been here under the surface but, perhaps, hasn’t always been as visible to you.
You might’ve even experienced some degree of guilt or shame for being a man when some men are acting in such vile, repugnant ways and making decisions for women without actually listening to women.
We’re all trying our best to be good people in the world and this shit is complicated.But there are a few things you might want to know. I wrote this for you.
How to Make Your Social Justice Events Accessible to the Disability Community
[from an article on the Rooted in Rights website - link for the full article at the end]
Since this year’s inauguration, we’ve seen a sea of protest sweep across the U.S., from spontaneous events to carefully organized marches that have been in the works for weeks. As a seasoned protest veteran, it’s exciting to see so many people engaged in taking their causes to the streets.
Since this year’s inauguration, we’ve seen a sea of protest sweep across the U.S., from spontaneous events to carefully organized marches that have been in the works for weeks. As a seasoned protest veteran, it’s exciting to see so many people engaged in taking their causes to the streets.
It’s coming at a price, though. Many of these events are
leaving disability off their “diversity statements” and they’re also failing to
account for disabled people who might want to participate. We have a lot at
stake in the coming years and we’re eager to join our fellow citizens. We’re
also tired of repeatedly asking events to foreground accessibility, rather than
treating it as an afterthought, or expecting us to come in and clean up their
inaccessible mess.
Sunday, October 15, 2017
How did we end up in trumpville? The late Richard Rorty has some insights
There's been a lot of talk since the beginning of trumpocalypse about how the left lost the election. Granted, if the Electoral College had served - for the first appropriate time in its history - its intended function, trump would not be President today, the left's strategy still has been a string of errors and prejudices.
Rorty, who died in 2007, pointed them out in his 1998 book, Achieving Our Country.
It's not a roadmap forward, but it is a very useful retrospective on how we got here, and a smart baseline on what mistakes the left and the center have to avoid in the future, if the country is going to survive. Just don't take some of his "sainted left" posturing too seriously. We definitely have our own shortcomings, and the right isn't all devils.
Three of the most prescient quotes from the book are below: telling us exactly what we'd see 18 years later, in 2016.
Rorty, who died in 2007, pointed them out in his 1998 book, Achieving Our Country.
It's not a roadmap forward, but it is a very useful retrospective on how we got here, and a smart baseline on what mistakes the left and the center have to avoid in the future, if the country is going to survive. Just don't take some of his "sainted left" posturing too seriously. We definitely have our own shortcomings, and the right isn't all devils.
Three of the most prescient quotes from the book are below: telling us exactly what we'd see 18 years later, in 2016.
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