AUTONETS - mesh networked garments, when activated, will alert everyone in range of the the local mesh network who is wearing another autonet garment that someone needs help and will indicate that person’s direction and distance.
Uncompromising Photos Expose Juvenile Detention in America
On any given night in the U.S., there are approximately 60,500 youth confined in juvenile correctional facilities or other residential programs. Photographer Richard Ross has spent the past five years criss-crossing the country photographing the architecture, cells, classrooms and inhabitants of these detention sites.The resulting photo-survey, Juvenile-In-Justice, documents 350 facilities in over 30 states. It’s more than a peek into unseen worlds — it is a call to action and care.
“I grew up in a world where you solve problems, you don’t destroy a population,” says Ross. “To me it is an affront when I see the way some of these kids are dealt with.”
The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color. With an average cost of $80,000 per year to lock up a child, the U.S. spends more than $5 billion annually on youth detention. On top of the cost, in its recent report No Place for Kids, the AECF presents evidence to show that youth incarceration does not reduce recidivism rates, does not benefit public safety and exposes those imprisoned to further abuse and violence. Ross thinks his images of juvenile lock-ups can, and should, be “ammunition” for the ongoing policy and funding debates between reformers, staff, management and law-makers.
Next, there will be a “sandwich making kit.”
see, i have no issue with there being a toy cleaning kit for kids. that’s fine. but the fact that it’s marketed specifically towards girls and even has a “girls only” thingy on it is just plain wrong.
as queernonymoose said here {http://queernonymoose.tumblr.com/post/21519491713/that-toy-cleaning-trolly-thats-toting-around}, this toy is incredibly racialized.
there is a HUGE overwhelming difference in the way white girls are conditioned into domesticity than girls of color
white girls are conditioned to be domestic for the sake of the nuclear family
whereas girls of color have historically been conditioned to be domestic for the sake of the WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS FAMILY, THE ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH SERVE WHITE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE {such as hotels, office buildings, ect} then their own families last
lets be honest with ourselves here, not only is this toy sexist but its fucking racist.
I was introduced to Ceyenne in February 2011 by the women at the Sex Workers Project - her lawyers and colleagues in the fight for the rights of people in the sex trades. Ceyenne, they told me, is an amazing, funny woman who was piecing her life back together after a stint in prison on a prostitution conviction. And she had this idea - she wanted to write the first cookbook by a sex working transgender woman, a cookbook that would bring people together and make it ok to talk about these tough issues.
I had to meet her.
After more than a year of collaboration on her book, which she’s calling Cooking in Heels, we launched a Kickstarter campaign Monday to raise the funds for Red Umbrella Project to publish it.
The response so far has been amazing - we are 85% of the way to the $6000 minimum we need to make the book a reality. Ceyenne and I have been blown away by the support and have started scheming about the ways we can make the book even more amazing than what we had planned. To be honest, we thought the combined forces of racism and transmisogyny (let’s face it, Kickstarter campaigns aren’t the most diverse of pursuits) would mean that we would be hustling hard to raise that six grand by our deadline, May 9.
Watch the video of her making paella on Kickstarter because me talking about her just isn’t anywhere near as awesome as watching Ceyenne in action. If you can spare a few dollars, please support the project and help us make this book bigger and better. $1 gets you access to backer-only updates, $10 gets you a personalized postcard from Ceyenne, $30 gets you a hard copy of the book when its available in August. If its within your means to donate more, there are rewards above and beyond what I’ve listed here. The more we raise, the more amazing this book is going to be.
I love listening to people talk about cooking food. And Ceyenne is right—food brings people together.
They’ve raised over 90% of their goal in just three days! That’s incredible and so good to see.
the video at the link is so good and is making very emotional!
In an article about privacy, the NYT had this to say:
“…Shayne’s Gmail account started featuring advertisements related to transvestism and transgenderism. Asked what it feels like for a heterosexual male to receive such ads, Mr. Shayne said, “Sort of like emerging from the bathroom in a hotel wearing a towel and realizing that the maid has come into the room.”
WTF?!
This sense of natural social hierarchy then impacts what kind of a revolutionary imagination we can even come up with. First of all, let’s just look at the slogan of the U.S. Social Forum: ‘Another World Is Possible, But Another U.S. Is Necessary’. But the question to put on the table is: if another world is possible, is the U.S. itself necessary?
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-Andrea Smith at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum (via femmefag) Boom. (via crunkfeministcollective) |
