qeilp: ipivi

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

The British army committed tons of mutilations during the massacres they committed in colonial times. Removing breasts and mutilating uteruses has been recorded before. In India, in Kenya etcetera.

It's silly to think Jack the Ripper was just some random blue-collar worker from Poland instead of a soldier who probably just came back from the Xhosa Wars, for example.

Not one true crime enthusiast wants to suggest that maybe the serial killer used to be an annihilator of an Indigenous tribe.

wanted to share a paper I recently read on this (the widespread framing of minority representation in western academia as "justice") which names it as a form of counterinsurgency.

Just Words: How Western Academics Disguise Their Bourgeois Aspirations as “Justice” to Present Capitalist and Colonial Violence as Progressive by lawrence maminta

Although the Student Intifada has unmasked the University as a genocidal landlord that moonlights as a police state under the guise of a credential factory, the call to cite more non-white academics in the name of “justice” ignores the University’s normalized, structural violence against non-white workers. Universities have deployed Zionist vigilantes and state and federal law enforcement agencies against students who have been vocal in their objections to their schools’ investment in U.S. imperialism and complicity in genocide. The University’s recent deployments of extralegal and state violence against its workers echoes Kent State’s and Jackson State’s responses to students who protested the U.S. government’s mass murder of Vietnamese citizens in the 1960s and 1970s. Citational justice whitewashes this historic pattern of state and institutional violence by claiming that the University can be just and equitable if individuals cite more non-white scholars so that these non-white scholars’ class positions improve. It is this legitimizing of the University, a colonial institution rooted in the occupation of indigenous land, which makes citational justice (and other similar initiatives) inadequate, regressive and dangerous.

wanted to share a paper I recently read on this (the widespread framing of minority representation in western academia as "justice") which names it as a form of counterinsurgency.

Just Words: How Western Academics Disguise Their Bourgeois Aspirations as “Justice” to Present Capitalist and Colonial Violence as Progressive by lawrence maminta

Although the Student Intifada has unmasked the University as a genocidal landlord that moonlights as a police state under the guise of a credential factory, the call to cite more non-white academics in the name of “justice” ignores the University’s normalized, structural violence against non-white workers. Universities have deployed Zionist vigilantes and state and federal law enforcement agencies against students who have been vocal in their objections to their schools’ investment in U.S. imperialism and complicity in genocide. The University’s recent deployments of extralegal and state violence against its workers echoes Kent State’s and Jackson State’s responses to students who protested the U.S. government’s mass murder of Vietnamese citizens in the 1960s and 1970s. Citational justice whitewashes this historic pattern of state and institutional violence by claiming that the University can be just and equitable if individuals cite more non-white scholars so that these non-white scholars’ class positions improve. It is this legitimizing of the University, a colonial institution rooted in the occupation of indigenous land, which makes citational justice (and other similar initiatives) inadequate, regressive and dangerous.

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

Did you know that male seahorses give birth? Let's give birth to wonderful conversations.

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.