Tag: Black Lives Matter
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Why Do Black People Riot?
OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…
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Poppy – All The Things She Said
What IS it with new music and now? There’s a deluge of good music, I assume either planned for later in the year or cos of COVID-19 the fruitions of lockdown. Poppy’s t.A.T.u cover was meant for Pride – she is gender questioning – but also as she says in the dooblydoo it has other…
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RTJ4 Drops Early
Good news in dark times, Run The Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) have released their fourth Run The Jewels album early as a download. It’s free, but I strongly suggest you click ‘Add to Cart’ and then donate to the Mass Defence Program given all the mass arrests and horrifying police brutality in the US…
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Ghostbusters remake
One of the things that pissed me off about the response to the backlash on the Ghostbusters remake is being automatically labelled sexist because I thought it looked like a bad or meh movie at best. Now it’s come out, and it seems that many people support my instincts, but because the studio span it…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…