Tag: Social Issues
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White Privilege and Systemic Racism
I’ve been looking for a resource for my white friends to explain how systemic racism and micro-aggressions are different from the big-R ‘Racism’ in their heads. I have struggled to explain that as a group, white people are racist. There is a difference between systemic racism and individual acts – the big-R racists with their…
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Orlando: We’re Here, We’re Queer and We Will Not Live in Fear
I haven’t posted here about Orlando because a) I’ve been too gutted about the whole thing, a major attack on my community and b) it’s mostly been reposting what has been posted before. You’ll probably find that Jim Jefferies piece that is still going viral, surprised the Charlie Brooker piece hasn’t popped up yet (but…
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Banksy on the refugee crisis
Hard hitting, but given those images of drowned refugee children (guessing one of the ships that sank near Zuwarah, Libya…a Google image search with those terms is harrowing, and that’s without the children) have been scrubbed off Facebook, I guess a victim of a triggered ‘flagging’, I wonder how long this Banksy image will stay.…
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Gay Tempest – Happy Pride & US Marriage
We are partying up a storm at Radio Clash Towers – not only is it London Pride today, but on the other side of the pond, the Supreme Court ruled a few hours ago that same-sex marriage is legal across the U.S.A.! So here is the best image I’ve seen from the explosion of colour…
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Project Homophobia
Great and thought-provoking film I saw on the Gaily Grind, about homophobia and the military.
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It’s never OK to say that’s so gay
Nice to see this video from the Teens React series to cover something more serious, about Jonah Hill being a dick calling someone a faggot (I can use that word, as a gay man, you can’t Jonah!). I’ve noticed this tendency over the last decade or two, the whole ‘that’s so gay’ thing, the f-word…