April 2012
137 posts
“I like to think of Harriet Tubman.
Harriet Tubman who carried a revolver,
who...”
– Susan Griffin ‘I like to think of Harriet Tubman’
if you can check out Christian Wolff’s setting of this to music, it’s a truly amazing synthesis of words and music.
March 2012
126 posts
i like when
improvised dinners turn out to be pretty bluddy tasty
vegansaurus!: Veganism and privilege: A... →
vegansaurus:
We had a post the other day about veggies being cheaper than people acknowledged, and it garnered some responses that called it insensitive to greater structures of food politics. We know the cost of food isn’t the sole determiner in the diet of many people, but the fact remains that many…
SGx: wait... what? privilege?! →
alpinerecreation:
privilege - a special right or advantage available only to a select group of people
anyone can be vegan and if everyone was the world gets fed
it’s incredibly cheap to eat vegan and an efficient use of resources to grow vegetables/grain - with high output of produce…
siouxbang:
I think when people say “privileged vegans” they refer to the number of outspoken vegans...
wait... what? privilege?!
privilege - a special right or advantage available only to a select group of people
anyone can be vegan and if everyone was the world gets fed
it’s incredibly cheap to eat vegan and an efficient use of resources to grow vegetables/grain - with high output of produce compared to land/water/energy use
eating meat uses up vast amount of resources to feed a minority of people
whilst the huge...
pandacake:
Being vegan is not a sacrifice; but a pleasure. Vegans are not deprived. It’s not that we “can’t have” this or that, we choose not to demand the violence inflicted on other animals, since we have no requirement for products or practices derived from animal exploitation.
i am selling my iMac if you wanna take a look →
“Imagine the day when women walk down streets and are not harrassed, stalked, or...”
– Carol J. Adams; The Sexual Politics of Meat (via veganrantss)
this makes me rub my feet together in anticipation mmmmmmmm
question
how did i survive 10 weeks of winter without hot squash?
Whiteness →
wildheartsdangerousminds:
People still don’t get it. we don’t hate White people. we hate Whiteness. Whiteness is what killed Trayvon Martin. Whiteness is what killed Emmett Till.
Whiteness is the idea that White is right and everything else is wrong.
Whiteness is why most of the time if POC are on TV they are acting out a stereotype. Whiteness is why Lana Del Rey can adopt a Hispanic name...
“Vegan Straight Edge: Because while no one is saying it’s an end, it’s the best...”
– Evasion, in his column in HeartAttack #45 (via doaskid)
Olivia Steimel (accordian) Diana Syrse (voice)...
Olivia Steimel (accordion) Diana Syrse (voice)...
Rachel Howie responds to all 13 scores on flute
over the course of ten weeks, combine the...
119 small nails 104 drawing pins 64 piano wires (of varying length and gauge) 30 reels of coloured thread 11.6 sqM brown parcel paper 11 rack frame pipes (w/ 2 feet) 10 metres white string 8 thin strips of wood 5.6 sqM lining paper 3 venetian blinds 3 chairs (one child size) 3 iron (golf club) 2 balls of yarn (green & black) 2 square blocks of wood 2 short lengths of wood 1.6 M copper wire 1...
lellund Reed & Sue Ying Koang respond to all...
Adam Teixeira & Huw Webb respond to the...
The very wonderful June Hills making her musical...
March 14th
a bleurghh kinda day followed by way too much nice things at night
will do an update of worth at some point soon
friday post clean up i reckon
“When a vegan is talking to a meat-eater about these issues, he or she is not...”
– Ari Solomon, Huffington Post (via xlakdjfdlakjsdf) to me the idea of ‘preachy vegans telling you what to eat/how to live’ boils down to this to non vegans: if we were in a building together and i realised/learned this building was on fire i would let you know… i would do everything...
March 12th
you’re a vegan but you eat fish right? no… no i don’t the clue is in the word ‘vegan’ so the blasé chef points at a casserole an notes well that’s vegan so yknow? sent off the hair parcel to the embassy in washington roll on communist assassins i’m ready for ya huh prepped studio the final amount and returned library books super good chats on Skype with...
