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Source for further perusal.

#financial literacy #personal finance #ahaha #canada #june 17 2023

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From Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire, 43-45.

#postcolonial theory #aime cesaire #feminism #discourse on colonialism #sept 25 #2022

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February 11, 2022. 3:54 PM.

Cobb-Douglas production functions and returns to scale at the dining table. The lake is spread out beneath the living room, a jigsaw puzzle made of ice. The day has been soft and downy gray, which makes me think of Luna's back, though bluish gray mist and greenish gray water have little in common with the reassuring warmth of petting a cat.

Squawk is listening to One Direction, and Ant is making soup. Blimp is in Vancouver, but will be back tomorrow.

#letters #music #orla gartland #maude latour #favourites #Youtube

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no matter what happens remember that there is always an alternate universe out there somewhere where this is a story about some hip gay dads who adopt a baby and everything turns out okay

#a small grumpy family #<3 #nimona #comics #nd stevenson

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Wordle 244 5/6

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February 18th, 2022. 10:30 PM.

I needed a distraction from thinking about how Cohen's Seven Theses of Monstrosity can be applied to Chandramukhi (2005). I helped Ant with Wordle once, but this is the first one I've completed on my own. Squawk showed it to us.

He's sitting at the dining table with me. Headphones on, watching something. Laughing at it. YouTube, probably.

Ant and Blimp are in bed.

We're going on a trip tomorrow, and I haven't packed yet.

I wanted to stay up and hammer this assignment out. I've kept the jar of sunflower seeds is within reach, both for the enjoyment as well as the distraction of snacking, but I haven't touched it.

I need deadlines. I think I've been dragging this out. I have a tendency to do that, don't I? I wanted to write out a rough draft, at least. A hodge-podge of ideas stitched together that I can rewrite tomorrow. I'm dragging my feet, though I've already written the outline.

Last night, I went to bed straight after class ended at 6:22 PM. You can probably imagine how I was feeling: that combination of exhaustion and rampant anxiety.

The thing is, during the semester, it feels like you're never done. There's always One Thing After Another, and you could always be doing More. I have felt so defeated by that, in years past.

How do I do this? How do I figure out work so I'm not always working? So that everything I need to do gets done, and things that don't feel as important (but are) don't fall by the wayside? I wanted to apply to more jobs, I wanted to finish applying to that policy internship, I need to practise my French.

(J'en ai marre de moi-même à ce moment.)

(Ou peut-être je suis fatigué et j'ai besoin du repos. C'est aussi possible.)

#my first #wordle #letters #feminism #the writing heebie-jeebies #monstrosity #chandramukhi #university

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Trying to figure out what to do about computing the Gini index for a data set that has negative after-tax income values.

...which led me to this very amusing side-road.

C'est mon premier neige and I've encountered negative values in income data. So it would appear that Illinois is of a tropical climate, since Peter does not appear seems not to have heard of neige at all.

#gini index #economic inequality #feb 11 2022 #economics #inequality

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Icarus Atop the Empire State Building, 1930. Lewis Hine. (Source.)

This image is of insufficiently high quality, but this is one of those photos you can sit and look at for hours and then carry away inside of you when you leave.

#favourites #art #photography #new york #new york city #empire state building

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(I mean - it's a classic, I just had to!)

#all-time favourites #the raven cycle #art

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“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.” Monsters are our children. They can be pushed to the farthest margins of geography and discourse, hidden away at the edges of the world and in the forbidden recesses of our mind, but they always return. And when they come back, they bring not just a fuller knowledge of our place in history and the history of knowing our place, but they bear self-­ knowledge, human knowledge— ­and a discourse all the more sacred as it arises from the Outside. These monsters ask us how we perceive the world, and how we have misrepresented what we have attempted to place. They ask us to reevaluate our cultural assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, our perception of difference, our tolerance toward its expression. They ask us why we have created them.

- from The Monster Theory Reader, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

#monster #monster theory #jeffrey jerome cohen #the monster theory reader #feminism

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Finally, if I think of one thing the feminism I defend should be against, it is private property. If you think that private property was fundamental for the transformation of a human being into private property, as object – that the law of private property was essential to the making of white patriarchy; its laws of inheritance; to right of land; rights over wife and children, animals and plants, and again over racialised human beings; to the making of the Master’s House and its world – then you cannot envision a world that would keep private property as its foundation and would be more just. Private property of notions impoverishes the conversation, and we end up fighting over a word rather than its content, the dreams of futurity that we can deploy from that word. A decolonial feminism is to facilitate a leap in imagination, to be convinced that there are alternatives, and that they are worth fighting for.

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#feminism #decolonization #decolonize #private property #utopia as a political project #francoise verges

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A person in command of their spirit, at one with humanity, will labor over discord between allies until a solution is arrived at. She will take responsibility for the conflict, in order to resolve it. An empowered person always has the initiative in her own hands. She is in command of herself at all times. An empowered woman will never bow to pressure or abuse, nor will she promote discord between natural allies.

-Lee Maracle, "Racism, Sexism Patriarchy" in Our Lives.

#lee maracle #racism #sexism #patriarchy #our lives #canada #newspaper #conflict #empowerment

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We must show how the politics of pacification and neutralization work, how power can finally acknowledge demands for visibility once it has emptied their content of any subversive element, but also how and why certain demands will never be accepted because they will lead to the dismantling of the structures of domination and exploitation.

I think that decolonial feminism can avoid assimilation and commodification by remaining close to the struggles of the women who are made the most precarious, close to the struggles of all those who fight against imperialist wars, extractivism, police violence and racial injustices, and for social, environmental, reproductive and epistemic justice. There are struggles that cannot be pacified.

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#francoise verges #feminism #decolonialism #utopia as a political project #utopia #anti capitalism #social justice #anti imperialism #anti racism #assimilation

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I’m sorry. I love you.

#nimona #comics #feminist comics #nd stevenson #august 29 #2022

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Toronto Metropolitan University, Coat of Arms.

#canada #canadian universities #they have GOATS #in their #coat of arms #!!! #is this watford #simon snow series #july 28 #2022

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And now as I am working in predominantly Indigenous communities, there is also something that’s transformed for me. There is an intentional slowness in processes which I’ve really appreciated. When I’m working with Indigenous people at work, people are saying, “Slow down.” “Have you gone out for a walk today? Have you eaten lunch?” I’m like, “People care about these things? What is this environment where we are not just driving our bodies into the ground? People are getting me to ask myself if I am in balance?”

...We have to be in balance because that’s how our centre fire burns. If we are not in balance then our centre fire is not gonna be as strong as it can be.

- Giselle Dias in "Dismantling Prison Industrial Complex Through Black Indigeonous Solidarity", from Until We Are Free : Reflections on Black Lives Matter Canada.

#giselle dias #prison industrial complex #until we are free #abolition #incarceration #prison abolition #balance #self care #slowing down #how to live #feminism

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I close with words of wisdom from two scholars who wrote about the dangers of hubris in social change. Karl Popper wrote in 1957: The piecemeal engineer knows, like Socrates, how little he knows. He knows that we can learn only from our mistakes. Accordingly, he will make his way, step by step, carefully comparing the results expected with the results achieved, and always on the look-out for the unavoidable unwanted consequences of any reform; and he will avoid undertaking reforms of a complexity and scope which makes it impossible for him to disentangle causes and effects, and to know what he is really doing .... Holistic or Utopian social engineering, as opposed to piecemeal social engineering ... aims at remodeling the "whole of society" in accordance with a definite plan or blueprint (Popper 2002, p.61). Yale anthropologist and political scientist James C. Scott has a brilliant review of top- down plans in his 1998 classic Seeing Like a State. He sums up the implications of review for policy making: "In an experimental approach to social change, presume that we cannot know the consequences of our interventions in advance. Given this postulate of ignorance, prefer wherever possible to take a small step, stand back, observe, and then plan the next small move" (p. 345). Small moves can cumulate into bigger benefits. Perhaps the rich country public will be more willing to increase aid when they see aid projects working well according to independent evaluation and feedback from the poor, as opposed to realizing once again that Big Pushes do not deliver on their utopian goal.

#economics #development economics #development #william easterly #review of #jeffrey sachs #end of poverty #journal of economic literature #big push vs incremental reform

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i love you all very much

#comics #nimona #nd stevenson #nate stevenson #ballister blackheart #all time favourites #august 29 #2022