Day: August 5, 2018

tinsnip:

froborr:

tinsnip:

Don’t assume malice. Assume ignorance. Life is easier, the world is kinder, and you can educate. Actual malice is pretty rare, I find. 

Always remember Hanlon’s Razor–”Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice as an explanation.”

That’s said, never forget Fred Clark’s Law, either: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.

Time to cross-stitch!

postpunkindustrial:

NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell

I get suggested stuff from steamedtangerine.

Here is what Tangerine has to say:

Read “Ice Storm” by Rick Moody-1970’s suburban blight with drugs, miserable swingers, and goofy kids. Watch NY77: the Coolest Year in Hell a documentary about punk, the birth of hip-hop, swingers, Studio 54, elections, black-out riots, Son of Sam, etc.-real stylish.

Hey look they entire documentary is on Youtube

queeranarchism:

ziggbot:

uglydante:

this white feminist idea that “no man will ever understand what its like to walk down the street in constant fear” okay but gay men, black and brown men, trans men ……

asian men, fat men, neurodivergent men, physically disabled/disfigured men, muslim men, sikh men, poor/homeless men…

Mentally ill men and invisibly disabled men too.

It’s almost as if the constant possibility of violence is a key feature of how marginalized people are
controlled in public spaces.

And recognizing that would help us understand how our struggles are interconnected, and how we can rise together and take those streets as our own because guess what? we’re the vast vast majority.

actupny:

On Friday, July 27, 2018, ACT UP NY went to the Whitney Museum’s evening hours and stood silently next to specific artworks in both the Incomplete History of Protest and David Wojnarowicz exhibits, holding framed recent news articles about the HIV/AIDS epidemic that were formatted to look like museum plaques.

Our goal was to connect these otherwise excellent exhibits to the current, ongoing struggle against HIV/AIDS which was left out, and which is continually glossed over not only by arts institutions, but also by governments and through public ignorance.

Many patrons were upset when they realized they were only getting half the story. Dozens of shocked museum-goers spoke to and photographed each of us and our plaques. One woman plaintively asked, “How can we teach kids about HIV when teachers and adults still don’t know anything about HIV?” People gasped about HIV rates in American communities of color, and about the President firing the entire Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Teenagers and young women, pulled in by the recent dates and the presence of living humans, stood and read and asked questions about this complex subject.

In other words, in just one hour, we facilitated hundreds of short, personal conversations and revelations about dozens of ongoing HIV issues.

Read our full statement for more on this action.

Articles included:

Also excerpted were statements affirming U=U:

“People living with HIV who take HIV medicine as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of transmitting
HIV to their HIV-negative sexual partners.”

— U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, September 2017

“Undetectable = Untransmittable, U=U” campaign aims — and is having success in — changing forever the way organizations and people with HIV talk and think about viral undetectability and infectiousness. Little is more likely to help demolish the stigma against HIV than spreading the U=U news to their partners, family, and community. It offers them and all of us hope.”

— Gus Cairns, NAM aidsmap, February 2017


AIDS is not history. And you can help spread the word.

Share these articles, and if you can, join us Saturday, August 4 at 4:30 p.m. for a repeat action during the Whitney’s sign language tour.

(If you need an ACT UP shirt, order one and mention that you’re coming — or shoot us a message if it’s a financial hardship — and we’ll have it for you at the action.)

This is a really rewarding action, and your help will make it even better.

Source: actupny