Borders and real life

Here is the noborder website. It is not really like how I described it in class. noborder.org is a site of news and networking information dealing with freedom of movement and immigration issues.

FAVORITE

This is one of my favorite orgs, Teen Voices, and Billy, your daughter will like it very much--Also Good

Places to be and people to meet . . .

UN launches campaign to eliminate violence against women

New York (PTI): UN Goodwill Ambassador and actor Nicole Kidman has launched an Internet campaign aimed at eliminating violence against women, and urged people to join the fight in trying to stop the "appalling human rights violation".

"One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognised pandemics of our time," Kidman, the goodwill ambassador to United Nations Development Fund for Womemn (UNIFEM) said in a statement.

Despite the pervasiveness of the issue, it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this, she said.

Processing the Presentation

I don't think I gave you all enough time to process Jackie's presentation today. Thoughts? And even critiques (she wants those for future work)?

P.S. I am not trying to bury the Samina post by the way, just thought about a lot today!!


Best.

Imagining Community

Please read :-) http://www.culcom.uio.no/aktivitet/anderson-kapittel-eng.html

QUEER: This blog has been mentioned in class-

this post is right on for what we have been talking about: http://brownfemipower.com/?p=1542

Oromo in the House!

So we have all had many conversations. Thank you all for indulging me in sharing my recent research. Here are a couple of links to give us some visuals for thinking about Oromo culture and life. (Wonder who will show up on the blog for this! P.S. All are welcome!)

Music is big!!

I'm divided on this, but about women's rights.

A wedding and a Very famous singer

Some history--some I have given you

There is much more to look at--take a peak yourself!


Some other links if you are interested:


Oromo Studies Association

Oromia Online


SSOOO interested in your thoughts on this site!!

Samina Malik

Here are some links on Samina Malik, the 23 year old British Muslim who goes by the screen name "Lyrical Terrorist." She was recently the first woman to be convicted under England's new terrorism laws.

I've included some links that I think include the most information with the least amount of bigoted, islamophobic speech. What's really troubling to me is that most of what I've found thus far is not only in support of her conviction, but overwhelmingly comprised of hateful and myopic statements made by bloggers and commenters. I acknowledge that as of yet I'm not looking in the RIGHT places... but does anyone else find that alot of blogs dealing with malik to come up on google are all racist and in full support of such frightening jurisprudence? There's also a whole hell of a lot of ignorance: For example, one commenter says "Deport her." This begs the question, "to where?" Seeing as Malik was born and brought up in West London. Other sentiments I've found have echoed this... this one, however, I've found particularly troubling. Honestly I'm a little scared... and while I'd like to trust and believe in resistance, it's seems harder to find and access than bigotted, racist support. Don't get me wrong, there are some people out there with opened eyes.... just not nearly enough.

Sorry for the bit of a rant, here are some links:
Telegraph article
Pretty Good Blog Post if for no other reason than the auther evokes Harry Potter.
Link that contains some of Malik's Poetry
An Attack on liberty Opinion Article, be sure to note the comments.

You can go in, you can go out, but you cannot go back in: Part Dui

I have recently learned to fully appreciate the intent of the idea of no re-entry (as listed as the title of this and Shalini's prior post) as an individual presently at the recieveing end of a less than friendly stomach bug. Keeping in jive with issues of movement, I picked up Wayne Franklin's Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America. All the talk of reality lately has also gotten me excited, so I've ordered Zizek's Plague of Fantasies (and some Borges fiction). I've been looking some scattered Zizek writings... In Welcome to the Desert of the Real Zizek talks about Reality, 9/11, Stalinism, and Snuff films and Art, and a critique of huntington's "clash of civilizations" (I'd recommend Said's lecture of the same topic, you can find it in parts on youtube) among other things. I find the discussion of cutting interesting in relationship to CarianaCarianne's themes of body and reality.

At one point, Zizek talks about freedom in relationship to the "free world." I recently found myself, in bed and ill, doing some light reading on string theory-- and one of the most interesting parts I encountered is "degrees of freedom"... by which freedom is established primarily by the boundaries that define it. This has changed the way I've been thinking about "freedom..." and it might do more of us good to get a little more familiar with quantum physics.

I also picked up Jean Beaudrillard's The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact, which I'm presently reading and will let you know how it goes.

You can go in, you can go out, but you can't go back In.

To Everbody:

I've been thinking about liminoids, liminality, cyborgs and "statelessness", Naufal and the General, and other generally unintelligible relationships in my life and ours.

I also came upon Cariana Carianne, two artists in one body through the Singular/Plural issue of Bitch magazine (Read for free at your local Bird library..I will try to copy the article for next time, probably not tomorrow.)

Also, here is another link via new city chicago about the artists. I like the part about "the freedom of an unregulated body"


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