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The violence of lighting in Khayelitsha

#apartheid #infrastructure #lighting #racism #toread | Located 42km from Cape Town’s city centre sits Khayelitsha and its self-built communities, with tall floodlights hovering above its roughly one million

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🚨 What really happened at Basecamp - Platformer

#basecamp #communication #culture #racism | <blockquote>How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Spell Checkers Agenda

#culture #language #names #racism #technology

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Racism and Grindr: how ethnicity filters factor in | British GQ

#dating #exclusion #filter #gay_community #grindr #racism #social_justice | <blockquote>For many Black gay men and gay men of colour, the ethnicity filters allow them to find other men and befriend and build a community with them free from othering, fetishisation and white gaze. Many gay men of colour are only invested in romantic relationships with other gay men of colour for this very reason. The ethnicity filters allowed them to curate an experience centred on them for a change. Treating the elimination of the ethnicity filters as a kind of utopian largesse positions...

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
White Guyde To The Galaxy

#bias #books #privilege #racism #sexism

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
If violence isn't the way to end racism in America, then what is?

#america #inequality #racism #social_justice

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Cross-Cultural Design – A List Apart

#culture #design #internationalisation #layout #localisation #racism #typography

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him - The Verge

#abuse #police_brutality #prison #racism #violence | <blockquote>He filmed the killing of Eric Garner. The video traveled far, but it wouldn’t get justice for his dead friend. Instead, the NYPD would exact their revenge through targeted harassment and eventually imprisonment—Orta’s punishment for daring to show the world police brutality.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
What White, Western Audiences Don't Understand About Marie Kondo's 'Tidying Up' | HuffPost

#cleaning #culture #racism #religion #show

6 years ago | View Shared by victor
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs | Teen Vogue

#cultural_appropriation #culture #gif #internet #media #memes #racism | <blockquote>In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.”</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
'A white mask worked better': why algorithms are not colour blind | Technology | The Guardian

#ai #bias #ethics #machine_learning #racism

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
AP Definitive Source | Writing about the 'alt-right'

#alt_right #journalism #language #politics #racism #responsibility #writing

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
La nature est un champ de bataille: essai d'écologie politique

#ecology #essay #green #instututional_racism #lang:fr #politics #racism #recycling | <blockquote>À l’automne 1982, les habitants du comté de Warren, dans le nord-est de la Caroline du Nord, se sont mobilisés pendant six semaines contre l’installation d’une décharge de déchets toxiquesnote. Quatre ans plus tôt, en 1978, une entreprise de gestion des déchets industriels avait entreposé illégalement dans la région d’importantes quantités de biphényles polychlorés (BPC), une substance utilisée notamment dans les transformateurs électriques et la peinture. Une fois découvertes, l’Éta...

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
An Anarchism That is Not Anarchism: Notes toward a Critique of Anarchist Imperialism

#anarchism #filetype:pdf #politics #poststructuralism #power_dynamics #racism

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
What's Wrong with Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm — Everyday Feminism

#cultural_appropriation #culture #cultures #explanation #postcolonialism #race #racism | <blockquote>Dressing up as Pocahontas, eating burritos, practicing yoga – what exactly counts as cultural appropriation, and what's the big deal? You've gotta read this to find out.</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House | Audre Lorde

#feminism #filetype:pdf #imperialism #paper #politics #power #racism #social_justice

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Parable of the Polygons - a playable post on the shape of society

#diversity #games #racism #society #visualisation

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege | A Little More Sauce

#analogy #explanation #racism #social_justice #white_privilege

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

#explanation #feminism #gamer #games #gender #nerd #privilege #racism #sexism #sociology

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Evil Thumbs: Videogames, Outrage and Outrage

#LGBTQ #article #feminism #freedom_of_speech #libertarianism #oppression #outrages #racism #social_justice #video_games | “They are not the FCC, they are not your mom, they’re just people who have dealt with oppressive systems and cultures their whole lives and don't want to have to deal with the same shit in the media they love, games included.”

11 years ago | View Shared by victor

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