The Anarcho-Feminist

youdontlooklikeafeminist:

All day, err’ day. Fuck.

The funny thing about this graph is that it says nowhere that the person speaking is a woman. And yet it is completly obvious to any reader that it is the case. That’s what one might call collectively internalized heteronormativity. Ethnomethodologists such as Harvey Sacks, Harold Garfinkel, or anthropologist Bruno Latour, have demonstrated how society is made through interactions and communication. If one obverses and analyses closely what people say and do, or more precisely what they do not say, but is implicitly understood, one will find the fondational structures of normativity which are intrinsic in the building of social stuctures. This graph, although it is meant to be feminist and in some regards possibly lgbt friendly, it technically reproducing a social structure that defines heterosexuality as the norm, homosexuality as a deviance. Furthermore it reproduces the notion that “feminist” is an attribute that is implicitly feminine, which is by my standards quite un-feministic actually. 

You’re welcome. =P

thedailywhat:

Powerful Photo of the Day: Chief Raoni, of the Kayapo tribe native to the Brazilian state of Pará, weeps upon learning that Brazil’s newly elected president Dilma Vana Rousseff has authorized the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam despite hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, letters, and e-mails begging the government to reconsider.

From Etcetera:

[A] death sentence [for] the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river [has been] enacted. Belo Monte will inundate at least 400,000 hectares of forest, an area bigger than the Panama Canal, thus expelling 40,000 indigenous and local populations and destroying habitat valuable for many species - all to produce electricity at a high social, economic and environmental cost, which could easily be generated with greater investments in energy efficiency.

To learn more and sign a last-ditch petition, go here.

[ver2go / thanks telemonz!]

UPDATE: I may or may not have crashed Amazon Watch. Sorry about that. So here’s an alternative link to the petition. (Site’s in Portuguese, so here’s a link to the Google translation.)

Damn, I just studied this case in Visual Anthropology, showing how indigenous reappropriation of western media technology had raised awareness for the Kayapo’s political issues. Apparently all in vain… = (