Sex, Love, and Global Justice

Musings of a reflective rebel.

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Affirmance a 365 project of affirmation by @jefffrandsen

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Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio

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It is more difficult for men to do the work of emotional development because this work requires individuals to be emotionally aware—to feel. Patriarchy rewards men for being out of touch with their feelings. Whether engaged in acts of violence against women and children or weaker men, or in the socially sanctioned violence of war, men are better able to fulfill the demands of patriarchy if they do not feel. Men of feeling often find themselves isolated from other men. This fear of isolation often acts as the mechanism to prevent males from becoming more emotionally aware.

bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004)

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Easy, easy Pull out your heart To make the being alone Easy, easy

Pull out your heart To make the being alone Easy, easy

Easy, easy You break the bridle to make Losing control Easy, easy

Crushed what you're holding So you can say letting go is Easy, easy

Easy, easy Pull out your heart To make the being alone Easy, easy

Pull out your heart To make the being alone Easy, easy

Easy, easy You break the bridle to make Losing control Easy, easy

Crushed what you're holding So you can say letting go is Easy, easy

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How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”

food for thought

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The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture

The opposite of masculine rape culture is masculine nurturance culture: men* increasing their capacity to nurture, and becoming whole. The Ghomeshi trial is back in the news, and it brings violent …

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Via Transplants Zine

Why Do Witches Ride Brooms? (NSFW)

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"A sex device that uses machine learning to improve its performance for a particular human—even if just as an intercessor with another human or humans—delocates intent. “If you understand sex as a form of interaction and communication, and of understanding the person you’re having sex with, if part of that is removed through an AI interface, what does that mean?” Lewis says. Part of consent is understanding context, and one possible future here will include economic incentives for hiding that context. Just as social networks hide the ways they keep people coming back for more, so too will sex devices conceal the sophisticated machine-learning artifice that makes them able to improve, to anticipate desires, to augment the skills of a teledildonicized partner. The makers of those devices will train them on databases of hundreds of thousands of people’s preferences, presumably. It’s hard to consent if you don’t know to whom or what you’re consenting. The corporation? The other people on the network? The programmer? The algorithm? Maybe it’s just enhanced masturbation. “We don’t have solid answers to those questions. We might never have them,” Lewis says. “We might wander into this revolution in sex without knowing what it means.”

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milk and honey

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LOOPY!

a tool for thinking in systems

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CRAVE Please excuse me sir could you spare some change? Every day I get up and it’s all the same I am inside out in a sideways place I got friends around but they’re all mistakes And the bottle tips to my open throat And the needle hits on the skin so cold I am underneath I cannot control Crave Fill me up until my plate is full Is it for my head, is it for my fuel? I will open up, I will swallow whole Sugar in the veins and the heart consoled 'Cause it’s something that everybody needs When we just give in how it tastes so sweet Is it by design, does it grow from greed? Crave

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THE FIRE This is one for the endless air Every breath that I need it’s there, so When I speak you can hear my prayers To be aware This is one for the standing trees Staying put so that life can breathe, but When we take more than what we need, it isn’t fair

We are here we are alive On this earth, on this earth Made to do more than survive It’s our turn, it’s our turn Make the world go round or were all going’ down in the fire That we light Life’s a gift, you get one try Do it right, do it right

This is one for the solid ground Stretchin’ out as I’m homeward bound, you’re There when I put my two feet down To move around This is one for the river flow Doesn’t stop when it’s tired, it goes on So the greens and the gold can grow To feed the town