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[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[newsmutproject]

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

[beatrice-otter]

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

[island-76]

Here's your reminder that AFAB doesn't mean that person has breasts and a vagina. That AMAB doesn't mean that person has a flat chest and a dick.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DICKS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE FLAT CHESTS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE BEARDS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DEEP VOICES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE TITS

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE PUSSIES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE CURVES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE HIGH-PITCHED VOICES

Don't let AMAB and AFAB become the progressive binary

[hiiragi7]

I want to add more:

AFAB people can have testes.

AFAB people can have XY chromosomes.

AFAB people can have a prostate.

AMAB people can have ovaries.

AMAB people can have a uterus.

AMAB people can get periods.

AMAB people can have XX chromosomes.

AFAB people can be socialized as male, and AMAB people can be socialized as female.

AFAB people can go through "male" puberties, and AMAB people can go through "female" puberties.

And regardless of AGAB, you can have a mix of sex characteristics which don't fit into "male" or "female" at all.

[genderkoolaid]

people need to realize that sexual harassment & assault can happen in women's only spaces. and cis straight women can and are frequent perpetrators (sexual harassment & assault do not require attraction). & the idea that women are just naturally safe to be around makes it harder for victims to speak up and be taken seriously because "but we're all girls! it's fine if I deny your autonomy if we're girls it's just a fun joke :)"

if you want to make women's spaces safer for victims of sexual assault, you need to focus on empowering ALL victims & not making sweeping generalizations based in bigotry.

[genderkoolaid]

hey call me crazy but I don't think any sexual assault is "insignificant."

i don't think the 27.1% of lesbian, 25.8% of bisexual, and 10.4% of straight female victims of contact sexual violence who have been victimized by women are insignificant.

i don't think the 48.4% of lesbian, 17.9% of bisexual, and 15.3% of straight female victims of stalking who have been victimized by women are insignificant.

i don't think the people in the notes of this post describing how their sexual victimization at the hands of (cis) women, and the victim-shaming reactions they've experienced, have made them feel unsafe in supposed "women's safe spaces" are insignificant.

maybe instead of going "but men!!!!!!!!!!" on this post for the millionth time, y'all can actually learn about why "female-on-female" sexual harassment is underreported & underresearched.

[genderkoolaid]

#Sorry half of lesbians have been stalked by a woman?????? Holy shit.

Just to clarify these statistics:

It is not that half of all lesbians have been stalked by a woman. It is that, of lesbians who have been stalked, half of them were victimized by women (exclusively or alongside men).

[genderkoolaid]

the point of this post is that sexual assault and rape and stalking all happens in spaces that are 100% cisgender heterosexual women. if your plan for protecting even just cishet women from sexual assault is just "have all cis-female spaces!" you are failing a large number of cishet women. and that's not even taking into account non-cis women, non-het women, and non-cis/non-het non-women who partake in these spaces for a variety of reasons.

1 in 10 straight women victims of sexual assault were abused by other women. 1 in 4 bi women victims. over 1 in 4 lesbian victims. is that clear enough for you? are those numbers big enough for you?

a space that lets in trans people of all kinds and even cis/het men, but has clear, universally applied rules of conduct and accountability, is far safer for victims than a space whose way of dealing with abuse starts and stops at "no men!" and has no intention of holding any woman responsible because they think sexual abuse by women is ~statistically insignificant~. that is the kind of space that actively enables abuse & alienates victims from potentially helpful communities. you annoying motherfuckers.

[asynca]

Hands up if you're sick of the IDF flying gay flags like they're doing this shit in our name

[stonerzelda]

[bearie]

[chucktaylorupset]

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A DIME

THATS WHY I MAKE MEADE

OUTTA THE COMPANY SLIME

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A DIME

THATS WHY I STEAL HONEY

TWO ATTA TIME

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A CENT

THATS WHY I TAKE HONEY PACKETS,

BOTTLE, AND FERMENT

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I DONT MAKE JACK

EXCEPT FOR THE MEAD

#MEDIEVAL LIFE HACKS

[flandrepudding]

Eurovision is allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

Boycott Eurovision.

Do not watch it. Do not support it.

[heritageposts]

if you're european, keep pressuring your national broadcaster to withdraw from eurovision

[anarchopuppy]

comrades don’t let comrades buy stickers on redbubble

The International Antifascist Defense Fund ( @antifainternational ) will send you a set of 30 stickers in 6 different flavors (plus a small selection of literature) if you contribute $6. There are 2 different sets, meaning you can get 5 each of 12 different sticker designs for only $12!

Any order from the CrimethInc store comes with a selection of their stickers, posters, and zines

The Zapatistas make and sell their own sticker designs in Spanish, as well as clothing, boots, jewelry, novelties, corn, and their world-famous coffee. They even sell their sick af ski masks but at this point I’m getting off-topic

Or you could just make your own DIY neighborhood decorations with nothing but paper, water, and flour

[queeranarchism]

Anarchist bars, festivals, libraries etc often give away stickers for free or for a donation. Anarchist print shops will often make any activist sticker you want (including your own cool new designs) for the cost of the ink and paper.

& if you see an activist group anywhere that has a cool sticker, check their website to see if you can order them (For example, get some amazing antifascist stickers from Jewdas: https://www.jewdas.org/shop/) and if there is nothing on the website, just e-mail them. They’re often happy to provide you with stickers.

Your supply of activist stickers never has to run out.

[anarchopuppy]

Absolutely have to have your own custom design? stickerguy.com is run by a punk indie record label and they have absolutely absurd prices on bulk weatherproof vinyl stickers - as low as 18 bucks for an order of 250 stickers. They proudly display the radical and anarchist stickers they print on their site and social media, too

Don’t waste tons of money on 1 sticker from redbubble or etsy when you could get 250 for that same price and mail stacks of them to your friends across the world

[galaxys-hoard]

Can we stop whitewashing Latino representation??? Like if you’re making one single Latino character for the LOVE OF GOD don’t make them a pale skinned blondie

[unfuckablebogtroll]

And also the way Barbie and Ken are role playing heterosexuality without any inherent sexuality of their own, without any understanding of what it means, or even any genitals at all! Just pretty-girl + handsome-guy = obviously a couple. And the way it fucks them both up! Because they’re both stereotypes, neither of them is a specialist version, no brain surgery or pilots license or Nobel prize for either of them. They’re just assigned the roles of Every Man and Every Woman. And Ken ends up doing Way Too Much because he’s hanging his entire self-worth on being important to Barbie. And Barbie just isn’t interested in him, she was assigned a boyfriend she didn’t ask for and doesn’t want and doesn’t know what to do with, just because that’s what society expects of men and women, that they will necessarily couple up and fall in love because… that’s what they do. Regardless of any personal quality of either party.

It’s about heteronormativity and amatonormativity and the unrealistic expectations society sets boys and girls up for from infancy. Barbie and Ken are every pair of toddlers sharing a sandbox while the adults around them call them each other’s little “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” even though neither party understands or is capable of understanding the implied meaning of that. Or wants to.

It’s a literal funhouse mirror of that weird pressure put on kids to perform heterosexuality from an early age. It examines how that leaves us unprepared for the complicated reality of actual relationships even if it turns out that you are heterosexual and do want sex and romance. Boys and girls aren’t really allowed to be just kids on the same team, so they grow up into men and women who generally want very different things from each other and are trained to look for it in everybody because anybody is better than nobody, and try to force it to work.

Barbie and Ken letting each other go in the end was perfect. Barbie the Every Woman realizing that she doesn’t have to be special, she just has to be, and Ken the Every Man realizing he has to seek validation elsewhere and lean on his fellow Kens for emotional support, WHICH THEY GIVE.

Truly a movie of all time.

[empressofsnow]

[greatdistance-blog]

[cantalwaysgetwhatyouwantbut]

Part 2: Wilson's silver streak

Part 1 here

[fleshdyke]

shoutout to every butch and bulldyke and girlfag and he/him lesbian and lesbians on t and lesbians that got top surgery and boydyke and amab lesbians that aren’t on e and lesbians with a bulge and lesbians that wear packers and lesbians named mitch or roger or steve. shoutout to the dykes. ily.

[luulapants]

Reminder that associating hair length with gender is not a culturally universal concept and that many indigenous folks in North America don’t cut their hair for cultural reasons that have nothing to do with gender.

Reminder that a native guy should be allowed to wear his hair in long braids without people calling it gender nonconformity or saying he’s breaking gender norms, because hair length has nothing to do with his gender norms.

Reminder that a queer native woman should be allowed to wear her hair long without being automatically read as femme presenting, that she can be butch with long hair, because long hair is not associated with femininity in her culture.

Reminder that many native folks cut their hair for solemn reasons, usually mourning, and remarking on it as a reflection of personal style or gender presentation can be deeply disrespectful. No, she didn’t just get a fierce butch haircut - she cut her hair because someone died. No, he didn’t cave to a gender conforming haircut - he cut his hair because someone died.

Reminder that this is not universally practiced by native folks and, like all cultural practices, some people are more strict in their adherence than others.

[loudlyrottingmaplelog-moved]

do you see the person you rb’d this from as a big blog?

yea

no

other (?)

Voting ended onJul 9, 2023

based off of @navysealt4t’s post :3

[fuzzyghost]

[rozegolden]