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Let's start with the idea that police need domestic resolution tools if they really want to decrease crime. That would have a handy knock-on effect of helping them deal with situations that otherwise result in death and shootings by police. The are concrete steps that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of repeated police violence. Many organizations can help you figure this out. The are officers of color pointing in the right direction who could be listened to. White people can use their presence and assumed respectability to influence government and demand accountability. White people can work to make people of color be treated like White people are by the police.
No, talking about other things and trying to make them fit the context won't help. nor does engaging in common detours from the path.
Admitting black lives matter is the bare minimum. After that, it takes effort for white people to see the structures that make white people powerful (Here are some resources for getting to that point) and the ways in which white people allow violence against people of color to happen. Then comes the need for white people to use that power they have to get other white people to understanding, to help squash stereotypes and misinformation, to get other White people to abandon the idea that they are the oppressed ones, to show how to avoid talking over someone's experiences, to stop them from defending cultural appropriation, and to find ways of getting power back to people of color.
In defense of professors being able to say what matters to them in the face of critics. And in defense of a movement that has a lot of people ready to believe the worst about them. And worry that the next generation will grow up to be privilege blinkered. Your faith tradition probably supports Black Lives Matter.
Canada is not exempt from intersectional concerns, including cities like Toronto.
All collections eventually must have materials phased out, even if there are members of the public that feel that discarding anything is a travesty. Buildings, however, can be renovated. Have a look at the new renovation of the oldest standing library.
The job of the incoming Librarian of Congress is a very tall order, indeed.
Violet Ramis on Ghostbusters, her dad, and the best and worst impulses of fandom. Which I'll put right next to the way that She-Ra defied expectations of the 80s and gave us a proper show with lots of women.
Everyone needs books that reflect them, but children and teens need them most of all, despite pressure that wants to say everything is fine. Because it isn't, and waiting until adulthood before giving access is waiting for far too long.
Twenty-five years of Angels In America, from those involved in its creation and productions. The hope that shame will not color the experiences of the next generation. Things that can be done now to help bring this about.
Getting solidly kicked in the feels by a piece about restricting yourself and claiming you don't want when the truth is that you've been told you don't want it and you believed them. Sometimes you don't realize you're hungry until someone puts a pie in front of you. Chasing what society says it's perfect is a recipe for disaster.
A great primer on terminology around disability, and am introduction to how curb cuts came to be a common occurrence.
Women stunt performers have to do what the men can do, in much less clothing and padding, and often in heels.
Remarkably Normal, the play collected from the 1 in 3 Project, which aims to remove the stigma associated with termination of pregnancies.
Spec Fic recommendations! Mystery works by women are definitely in these days, having supplanted stories of the two-fisted private eye. And it's opposite, the phenomenon of photographs of fat people that doesn't include their faces.
A guideline on how to write a disabled character that doesn't land squarely in Tropeville.
The increased prevalence of Mx. as a title has the people at Merriam-Webster interested to see if it needs to be entered into the dictionary. Pokemon Go doesn't ask for a gender, just a style.
Since many churches are now stops in Pokémon Go, they're using that status to try and recruit. Even the ones that used to be very unhappy about Pokémon and considered it a tool of The Adversary.
The rather common occurrence of people stealing large quantities of food for resale, without necessarily taking into consideration proper care and storage. Why not steal the imperfect food slated for destruction anyway and redistribute it?
When it comes to food, it is more important to get enough of it and enjoy it than to try and figure out universal truths of nutrition.
The snacks of the Baby-sitter's Club novels.
Ethical and socially responsible travel decisions.
Guidelines for news organizations on keeping staff that deal with traumatic imagery safe and healthy.
The Jewish pirates of Jamaica, which seems to smash together two things that wouldn't normally mix, but is yet another reason why history is stranger than fictions.
France has discontinued allowing plastic shopping bags to be given at stores.
Getting a book sold often relies on connections of the author as much as the story's power. Various errors of writing. NK Jemisin on writing and inspirations and again on describing characters of color. Justine Larbalestier on writing people of color when White. Cassandra Khaw in letting your writing voice come out in your prose. Laura Broadbent on relationships, mostly, but also writing. V. E. Schwab on how success in writing is fickle-r than fate. There's a lot of work and perpetual "WAUGH" that goes into being a professional writer. The periodic table of tropes. S L Huang on the part where manpain is usually not man pain. Katherine Locke on how tension is a function of distance between internal and external selves. The case for adapting Octavia Butler and other PoC science fiction authors to the screen. Gillian Anderson is totally Bond.
188 deals to call your book something else than a thing dealing with a wife or daughter.
The index page to a lot of great posts on building worlds in your writing. And advice on what advice on writing to ignore. Followed by advice on writing.
Tor Books has an ebook club now!
A little bit on the Republican candidate for President - the book with his name was ghostwritten, his campaign promotes White supremacists, courts their favor, posts their preferred memes, denigrates and demeans minorities, declines to speak in front of minorities, and doesn't attempt to rein in or disavow supporters that act in racist ways. perhaps because those the support him turn out to be the most -ist people in the party.
It's not helping that the candidate gaslit a woman and then kicked her out of his rally over her child.
Social awkwardness is not an excuse for objectification or ignoring the idea that cosplay is not consent. Doing anything you perceive as nice for a woman doesn't obligate her to do anything for you. Young men need to have these conversations as soon as possible and as often as needed.
Getting divorced exposes how easily and willingly companies will still assume that a man has all the assets and income, and therefore all the power, in finances.
The power of politeness as a way to get people to like you and open up about themselves.
Science and the scientific process require several bugfixes to be more effective and, well, scientific, including incentives to not chase money, to not only publish positive, statistically-significant results, and to get trained people doing more than just research.
Photographs of the Mermaid Parade, Pictures of the first Pride Parades, and The realization for many young black people what having a black President means.
Photographs of the doll factory. And of skeletons richly adorned. Photographs of the oceans and photographs of wonders of the world.
In technology, the person employed by the Japanese government to hunt illegal uploads.
Pokémon Go uses binding arbitration to make sure the company can't be sued in a class action way. Here's an easy way of opting out.
Malicious apps trying to play on the popularity of Pokémon Go, Go as the harbinger of augmented and virtual reality as the next big thing, the various martial art skills of Pokémon, making sure a caught Pokémon status caught if the app crashes on you, possible improvements in later app versions, people trying to help each other have a great experience with Go, and a beginner guide to Go.
Photography of fireworks in black and white, doughnuts in the colors and sparkles of the galaxy, a little bit of data from a satellite that was supposed to be observing a black hole, an algorithm that helps people make appeals of small cases, like traffic citations, an indie record store in LEGO, bringing a large-scale miniature world to life, plans for fleets of autonomous cars, experimentation on headphone design, Tokyo getting a serious upgrade in wireless capability in anticipation of the 2020 Olympic Games, a nostalgia service only having a limited selection of games, the progression of technology from the public sphere to the private (and back again), creative thinking to avoid thievery, carving patterns into taiko drums to help their pitch become the resonant sound we expect, an idea to get women of NASA made into minifigures, a security vulnerability in Lastpass, now fixed, the acquisition of Yahoo! by Verizon, the use of Rocket Raccoon and Groot on an official NASA mission, restricting an Android phone to a single app, taking better photographs with a smartphone camera, and typefaces for book covers, by style or genre.
Implants in rats allow them to detect the infrared, an octopus and their consciousness, octopus eyes as color perceptors, sperm whales form clans and diverse language groups, adjustments that must be made when there are cats in the house, examining the number of neurons in bird brains, a cat taking a nap at a local shrine, working out how to care for cats that have lived long past their expected times, trying to get a trapped bear out of a car, drawings combining animals and plants, paper flower creations, confectionary sea otters, plants that can cause serious burns, life-size animal sculptures made from recycled metal parts, cat and dragon siblings, black shelter cats ready for adoption, bunny noses, a proud mom and her puppies, a proud mom and her pup, cats seeking warmth, wisely bringing the dog to help pick out the cat that will join the household, the suggestion that police departments could have official cats, a bear that walks on their hind legs, giant insects (and ranking the pain stings cause), squirrels having fun, floofy tail, golden retriever, a cat on the rugby pitch, squirrel grooms cat, baby elephant chases birds, and lichens have yeast as well as fungi and algae (discovered by a person in Montana).
Last for tonight, things real people do. Including grammatical analysis of the different users of the f-word and having to deal with the bias that talking a little about women is always talking about women.
And Mrs. White will be replaced by Dr. Orchid in the next edition of Clue(do) and the Jim Henson Company working on a Tiffany Aching movie.
Plus taking a course in Japanese literature from Keio University.
No, talking about other things and trying to make them fit the context won't help. nor does engaging in common detours from the path.
Admitting black lives matter is the bare minimum. After that, it takes effort for white people to see the structures that make white people powerful (Here are some resources for getting to that point) and the ways in which white people allow violence against people of color to happen. Then comes the need for white people to use that power they have to get other white people to understanding, to help squash stereotypes and misinformation, to get other White people to abandon the idea that they are the oppressed ones, to show how to avoid talking over someone's experiences, to stop them from defending cultural appropriation, and to find ways of getting power back to people of color.
In defense of professors being able to say what matters to them in the face of critics. And in defense of a movement that has a lot of people ready to believe the worst about them. And worry that the next generation will grow up to be privilege blinkered. Your faith tradition probably supports Black Lives Matter.
Canada is not exempt from intersectional concerns, including cities like Toronto.
All collections eventually must have materials phased out, even if there are members of the public that feel that discarding anything is a travesty. Buildings, however, can be renovated. Have a look at the new renovation of the oldest standing library.
The job of the incoming Librarian of Congress is a very tall order, indeed.
Violet Ramis on Ghostbusters, her dad, and the best and worst impulses of fandom. Which I'll put right next to the way that She-Ra defied expectations of the 80s and gave us a proper show with lots of women.
Everyone needs books that reflect them, but children and teens need them most of all, despite pressure that wants to say everything is fine. Because it isn't, and waiting until adulthood before giving access is waiting for far too long.
Twenty-five years of Angels In America, from those involved in its creation and productions. The hope that shame will not color the experiences of the next generation. Things that can be done now to help bring this about.
Getting solidly kicked in the feels by a piece about restricting yourself and claiming you don't want when the truth is that you've been told you don't want it and you believed them. Sometimes you don't realize you're hungry until someone puts a pie in front of you. Chasing what society says it's perfect is a recipe for disaster.
A great primer on terminology around disability, and am introduction to how curb cuts came to be a common occurrence.
Women stunt performers have to do what the men can do, in much less clothing and padding, and often in heels.
Remarkably Normal, the play collected from the 1 in 3 Project, which aims to remove the stigma associated with termination of pregnancies.
Spec Fic recommendations! Mystery works by women are definitely in these days, having supplanted stories of the two-fisted private eye. And it's opposite, the phenomenon of photographs of fat people that doesn't include their faces.
A guideline on how to write a disabled character that doesn't land squarely in Tropeville.
The increased prevalence of Mx. as a title has the people at Merriam-Webster interested to see if it needs to be entered into the dictionary. Pokemon Go doesn't ask for a gender, just a style.
Since many churches are now stops in Pokémon Go, they're using that status to try and recruit. Even the ones that used to be very unhappy about Pokémon and considered it a tool of The Adversary.
The rather common occurrence of people stealing large quantities of food for resale, without necessarily taking into consideration proper care and storage. Why not steal the imperfect food slated for destruction anyway and redistribute it?
When it comes to food, it is more important to get enough of it and enjoy it than to try and figure out universal truths of nutrition.
The snacks of the Baby-sitter's Club novels.
Ethical and socially responsible travel decisions.
Guidelines for news organizations on keeping staff that deal with traumatic imagery safe and healthy.
The Jewish pirates of Jamaica, which seems to smash together two things that wouldn't normally mix, but is yet another reason why history is stranger than fictions.
France has discontinued allowing plastic shopping bags to be given at stores.
Getting a book sold often relies on connections of the author as much as the story's power. Various errors of writing. NK Jemisin on writing and inspirations and again on describing characters of color. Justine Larbalestier on writing people of color when White. Cassandra Khaw in letting your writing voice come out in your prose. Laura Broadbent on relationships, mostly, but also writing. V. E. Schwab on how success in writing is fickle-r than fate. There's a lot of work and perpetual "WAUGH" that goes into being a professional writer. The periodic table of tropes. S L Huang on the part where manpain is usually not man pain. Katherine Locke on how tension is a function of distance between internal and external selves. The case for adapting Octavia Butler and other PoC science fiction authors to the screen. Gillian Anderson is totally Bond.
188 deals to call your book something else than a thing dealing with a wife or daughter.
The index page to a lot of great posts on building worlds in your writing. And advice on what advice on writing to ignore. Followed by advice on writing.
Tor Books has an ebook club now!
A little bit on the Republican candidate for President - the book with his name was ghostwritten, his campaign promotes White supremacists, courts their favor, posts their preferred memes, denigrates and demeans minorities, declines to speak in front of minorities, and doesn't attempt to rein in or disavow supporters that act in racist ways. perhaps because those the support him turn out to be the most -ist people in the party.
It's not helping that the candidate gaslit a woman and then kicked her out of his rally over her child.
Social awkwardness is not an excuse for objectification or ignoring the idea that cosplay is not consent. Doing anything you perceive as nice for a woman doesn't obligate her to do anything for you. Young men need to have these conversations as soon as possible and as often as needed.
Getting divorced exposes how easily and willingly companies will still assume that a man has all the assets and income, and therefore all the power, in finances.
The power of politeness as a way to get people to like you and open up about themselves.
Science and the scientific process require several bugfixes to be more effective and, well, scientific, including incentives to not chase money, to not only publish positive, statistically-significant results, and to get trained people doing more than just research.
Photographs of the Mermaid Parade, Pictures of the first Pride Parades, and The realization for many young black people what having a black President means.
Photographs of the doll factory. And of skeletons richly adorned. Photographs of the oceans and photographs of wonders of the world.
In technology, the person employed by the Japanese government to hunt illegal uploads.
Pokémon Go uses binding arbitration to make sure the company can't be sued in a class action way. Here's an easy way of opting out.
Malicious apps trying to play on the popularity of Pokémon Go, Go as the harbinger of augmented and virtual reality as the next big thing, the various martial art skills of Pokémon, making sure a caught Pokémon status caught if the app crashes on you, possible improvements in later app versions, people trying to help each other have a great experience with Go, and a beginner guide to Go.
Photography of fireworks in black and white, doughnuts in the colors and sparkles of the galaxy, a little bit of data from a satellite that was supposed to be observing a black hole, an algorithm that helps people make appeals of small cases, like traffic citations, an indie record store in LEGO, bringing a large-scale miniature world to life, plans for fleets of autonomous cars, experimentation on headphone design, Tokyo getting a serious upgrade in wireless capability in anticipation of the 2020 Olympic Games, a nostalgia service only having a limited selection of games, the progression of technology from the public sphere to the private (and back again), creative thinking to avoid thievery, carving patterns into taiko drums to help their pitch become the resonant sound we expect, an idea to get women of NASA made into minifigures, a security vulnerability in Lastpass, now fixed, the acquisition of Yahoo! by Verizon, the use of Rocket Raccoon and Groot on an official NASA mission, restricting an Android phone to a single app, taking better photographs with a smartphone camera, and typefaces for book covers, by style or genre.
Implants in rats allow them to detect the infrared, an octopus and their consciousness, octopus eyes as color perceptors, sperm whales form clans and diverse language groups, adjustments that must be made when there are cats in the house, examining the number of neurons in bird brains, a cat taking a nap at a local shrine, working out how to care for cats that have lived long past their expected times, trying to get a trapped bear out of a car, drawings combining animals and plants, paper flower creations, confectionary sea otters, plants that can cause serious burns, life-size animal sculptures made from recycled metal parts, cat and dragon siblings, black shelter cats ready for adoption, bunny noses, a proud mom and her puppies, a proud mom and her pup, cats seeking warmth, wisely bringing the dog to help pick out the cat that will join the household, the suggestion that police departments could have official cats, a bear that walks on their hind legs, giant insects (and ranking the pain stings cause), squirrels having fun, floofy tail, golden retriever, a cat on the rugby pitch, squirrel grooms cat, baby elephant chases birds, and lichens have yeast as well as fungi and algae (discovered by a person in Montana).
Last for tonight, things real people do. Including grammatical analysis of the different users of the f-word and having to deal with the bias that talking a little about women is always talking about women.
And Mrs. White will be replaced by Dr. Orchid in the next edition of Clue(do) and the Jim Henson Company working on a Tiffany Aching movie.
Plus taking a course in Japanese literature from Keio University.
