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Anti-trans activists use ‘mirror propaganda’. Here’s how to spot it | openDemocracy

Those claiming to be ‘silenced’ are then featured in every national mainstream media platform, something that caught the ire of Sara Ahmed, an independent academic and former professor of race and cultural studies at Goldsmiths University of London: “Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power.”

Source: Anti-trans activists use ‘mirror propaganda’. Here’s how to spot it | openDemocracy

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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” De tudo fica um pouco.

Do meu medo. Do teu asco.

Dos gritos gagos. Da rosa ficou um pouco.”

Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Resíduo

ANDRADE. Carlos Drummond de. A Rosa do Povo. Círculo do Livro. São Paulo, 1945

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Santarém, Pá 5 de dezembro de 2022

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‘What the hell, Sam’: Justice Alito slammed for making ‘joke’ about Black children in KKK costumes – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in one of the most important cases of the term, a case that will determine if the nation’s highest court will or will not allow a person citing their personal religious beliefs to openly discriminate in the marketplace against same-sex couples.In li…
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Biodiversity: a long word that simply means “life”…

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This past weekend (December 3 and 4), citizen scientists on three (sorry, four) islands across the Caribbean participated in “Inter-Island BioBlitz 2022.” It wasn’t really a competition – but who says scientists (and wannabes like me) don’t love to compete? So, there was an element of that, across the islands.

Trinidad and Tobago invited Barbados and Jamaica to join them this year. The University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine campus in T&T partnered with iNaturalist and the Trinidad & Tobago Naturalists’ Club for the bioblitz.

A snapshot of some of the weekend’s observations, posted on Twitter.

At the end of the weekend, there were over 4,000 observations of over 1,000 species of birds, butterflies, plants, trees, and bugs of various sorts. Many are still being uploaded. We went out into our back yards (or wherever) and ensuring that our exact coordinates were on our phones, took photos of whatever…

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