Jackass publicly simulates/advocates rape of Latina activist
Via Galling Galla, “Radio Shock Jock Commits On-Air Simulated Rape of Latina Immigrant-Justice Activist”, here’s a not-so-fantastic combination of racism & sexism:
I’m coming out of my temporary blog-break for this one, b/c there’s another rapist scumbag out there who needs taking down, after he simulated an act of rape against an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a human rights activist in Arizona, because she dared to participate in a protest against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has a *long* history of massive abuse against immigrants and prisoners.
Galling Galla has links to more posts and info about what to do at her place, including a link to:
Video at brownfemipower’s place:
I want people to see this for what it is–a white man feeling like he can control, humiliate, and imply sexual violence against a brown woman–all while be recorded for public broadcast. It’s about a white man controlling a woman who pissed him off, by mocking her race, by implying sexual control over her through the use of racist imagery and language.
So here’s an example of intersectionality. How would you separate out the threads of racist and sexist hate here that intertwine dynamically and fuse together? The answer: you can’t. It’s like a chicken and egg question except that the chicken and the egg are melded rather than discrete entities, constantly changing in size and shape and blending into one another as you look at them. So the next time someone wants to argue about which is “worse,” racism or sexism, ask them how this instance of simulating and publicly advocating the rape of a woman of color fits into their narrow binary, because the crime is motivated by misogyny and racism and the interactions of the two – it’s violence against a person of color but also a misogynist form of violence. It’s a misogynist form of violence but it also hinges on Isabel Garcia’s ethnicity. The racism and sexism enable each other and the identities and the forms of oppression cannot be separated from each other.
Photos: Adverts
Some photos of ads and signs that caught my attention.
I like this ad:
SEX MAY SELL.
BUT, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH MAKING GREAT VODKA.
Truer words, y0. Sadly, the picture’s too blurry to see who the manufacturer is – I snapped this through a bus window yesterday, when it was drizzling that odd mist-rain that SF gets, the stuff that’s not heavy enough to be rain but too discrete to be mist. Teeny little rain drops blown about by the wind, whirling up and down through the air.
Some Photos: Miscellaneous
Things that caught my attention. Pictures below the cut.
July: The skyline at Fort Mason last weekend, when it was cloudy and sprinkling.
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Some photos: food
Some photos from the past two months: food.
Rosewater creme brulee and pistachio shortbread at Citizen Cake. The creme brulee was perfect and the caramelized top was sweet and burnt-bitter and shattered into pieces with each bite.
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Picture of the Day: San Francisco Doesn’t Live Here
The Millennium Tower is a 60-story luxury high rise going up in SoMa, a formerly industrial area that is rapidly being populated with towers full of luxury condos in order to capitalize on the relentless demand for upscale, expensive housing. Because what this city needs more of is sterile glass towers that cast shadows over the streets, block out the sky, raise the cost of goods in their surrounding areas, present cold, blank facades to the street, fail to create a sense of neighborhood, and drive current inhabitants out*. It doesn’t need affordable lower- and middle- income housing, it needs housing that goes for $2.5M a unit (SF Chronicle) … oh, wait a minute (SF Chronicle).
It’s difficult to read, but the tag line under “MILLENIUM TOWER” in the poster is “San Francisco Lives Here.” San Francisco most emphatically does not, and if it did, I wouldn’t want to. The eclectic vibrancy and the diversity of this city are two of the many reasons I love it and an exorbitantly priced tower that’s beyond the reach of 99.99% of San Franciscans has no claim to appropriating the city’s colorful, chaotic identity for itself. As marketing gimmicks go, it’s a stupid one.
*With respect to that aspect of urban development, I’m thinking more of the Fillmore redevelopment project and the current proposal to redeveop Hunters View / Baypoint. SF Chronicle articles on Propositions F and G here and here (ultimately, Prop G passed).
FISA Senate Vote
The Senate voted 69-28 today to approve “broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.” (NY Times). Post at Hillary1000. Please excuse me while I go call my senators to thank one and yell at the other.
Hello, World! And Some Photos
Hey there, y’all! I’m still here, still alive. It’s just been a topsy turvy couple of months and then I was completely away from internet access last week (to say nothing of connectivity troubles with the modem and the wireless router throughout May and June).
I’m working on some stuff at the moment for H1K and generally trying to get back in the swing of things reading blogs and the news. In the meantime, have some pictures below the cut. -posts and flees-
