A groundbreaking book by Danielle L. McGuire. The author gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began; how it was in part started in protest against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement; and how those forces persisted unpunished throughout the Jim Crow era. Black women's protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the South that began during WWII and went through to the Black Power Movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not the birth, of that movement....
Month: March 2020
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.
Intersectionality is definitely a good word to have.
The Fifty Principles of Sogetsu is a list of fifty most essential and fundamental points in learning Sogetsu Ikebana. You do not have to learn all of them by heart, but refer to them now and again. For Beginners Beautiful flowers do not always make...
We definitely need more websites like this around.
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)WordPress has the concept of post types, which are custom content types. The post type, which is the default type in WordPress, is a post of type post. Custom post types are also used to store attachments, menus, revisions, etc…all sorts of things that aren’t traditional posts. Post Kinds as imp...
Let’s see what you think about this big pile of colorful squares.
A quirky new social media platform.
Much like Gemmer.io it looks like you can only like a limited number of others on the service, which is an interesting limitation.
Lucas Gonze (Twitter)If you have a blog, how do you track reply posts on other blogs? Do you use refback, linkback, trackback, or webmention? Do you get enough reply posts to make the setup worthwhile?
— Lucas Gonze (@lucas_gonze) March 5, 2020
Refbacks were almost all noise and very little signal for me. Pingbacks/Trackback look dreadful and aren’t well supported anymore, so I don’t receive many. Webmentions have been AWESOME and just required two simple plugins for WordPress. My very small personal site has gotten over 6,000 reactions/replies in the past year (with the help of backfeed, particularly from Brid.gy.)
The real win is that I can use my own website to converse with others and don’t need the big social silos the way I did several years ago.
Eran Hammer (hueniverse.com)GitHub provides an invaluable hosting service. Like all hosting platforms, any interaction between the content owner — the maintainer — and their community— the users — is owned exclusively by the owner. If you visit my repositories on GitHub, you are visiting my property, hosted generously by GitHub. It is not public space.
I wonder if the reframing by the IndieWeb community of hosting things on their own sites will prevent this sort of rudeness in the future, or will the social construct fall down with the influence of spammers and trolls?
Eran Hammer (hueniverse.com)I heard some people found my recent tweet about trying to make a living doing open source puzzling:
Directed by Eric Stoltz. After a devastating loss at Nationals, Will assigns the kids a new project to get them back on track.
I remember thinking 3,000 public posts on my own website felt impressive. Two years later to the day, and I’m happy to be passing 12,438 and owning even more of my online presence.
Directed by Brad Falchuk. Shelby Corcoran returns to McKinley High. Meanwhile, Will initiates a boot camp for some of the members of Glee Club.