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While I hate the misogyny that’s directed at female candidates, I also can’t help but find it irritating — and even a bit hypocritical — that conservative women like Bachmann and Palin are quick to denounce the sexism that’s thrown at them, but even quicker to support sexist policies and legislation that hurt other women across the country.
While governor, Palin cut funding to a home for teen mothers, and made women in Alaska pay for their own rape kits. Both Palin and Bachmann are anti-choice; Bachmann has even suggested that she opposes abortion to save a woman’s life. When asked in the GOP presidential debate earlier this month what she thought of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s position that abortion should be permitted in cases of rape, incest or when a woman’s life is in danger, Bachmann answered, “I am 100 percent pro-life.”
It’s fair to bemoan the misogyny in the media and in our culture, but if you don’t plan to change that through your political actions — or, at the very least, refrain from supporting it — complaining seems a bit pointless.Opinion columnist Jessica Valenti, in “Bachmann’s right and wrong,” The Daily. (via thedailyfeed) -
Prints! Prints! Prints!
Great prints from some of my favorite letterpress studios will be available online as well as in this show!
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So, you’ve heard of seed bombing and yarn bombing. Check out the latest form of literary activism: Poetry Bombing.
Agustina Woodgate, who is on mission to spread poetry to the masses with a renegade needle and thread, sews short poems into the hems of clothing at thrift stores in Miami. (It sort of reminds us of the Norwegian film Elling, in which the main character leaves unsigned verse in boxes of sauerkraut at local grocery stores.)
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To add to the Unconsumption gallery of new uses for old road signs is this chair from friend of Unconsumption Will Holman, who says:
I put together this sleek chair out of a recycled road sign and some salvaged pecan wood, materials that were all sourced within a mile of my Alabama home. The signs came from the local county engineer’s yard, where they sat in a stack after twenty-plus years of faithful service on Alabama’s rural roads. Pecan wood is a species of hickory, native to the American south. It is dense, tight-grained, and strong, perfect for furniture construction.
The resulting chairs are low-slung, laid-back loungers; some were left un-cushioned for use on the back deck, and others were upholstered with either smooth or ribbed cushions for use inside.
(Via Will and Startwoodworking.com, which provides a how-to/tutorial. Thx, Will!)
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Music for your Monday: NPR Music is streaming Gillian Welch’s ‘The Harrow and the Harvest’ in it’s entirety. Enjoy!
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Does gender matter? In a country with the ideal of treating everyone fairly and equitably, do we really need to know if someone is a boy or a girl? These questions are driving decisions and actions around the country.
Food for thought in the latest Linton Weeks piece: The End Of Gender? : NPR (via nprfreshair)
(via nprfreshair)
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Texas to get the first packaging-free grocery store in the U.S.
In.gredients, which is slated to open this fall in Austin, will sell loose and bulk items, including “local, organic meats, dairy, baking goods, cooking oils, spices, grains, seasonal produce — the whole spectrum.” Customers will need to bring reusable containers from home (or use the store’s compostable containers), and weigh them before filling with the products they want.
In.gredients’ package-free, zero-waste retail concept, similar to that of Unpackaged in London, is a great business model. The benefits of precycling — avoiding wasteful packaging — and buying only the amounts you need of locally sourced products, creating less landfill and saving money in the process, are many.
If you have friends in Austin, encourage them to support in.gredients. And let’s hope in.gredients will expand to other markets. [Hi, Houston next, please.]
No matter where you live, check it out: You can follow the company’s progress here (blog and Web site), here (Facebook), and here (Twitter).
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Circus Images in all their awesomeness
This is a database of gorgeous circus posters, illustrations and type are both excellent. I am not convinced by their copyright policies, just as a heads up.
