Big ol' link spam

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This has been building for like 8 months, which means I look back on the me who collected some of these with weary nostalgia. But here we are.

It's own special catgeory:
Star Friends a very inclusive dating site and friend finder, currently in alpha

Disability:

• Disability as Punishment in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  
• On Loss & Chronic Illness - Denial
  
• Unpaid, stressed, and confused: patients are the health care system's free labor

Fandom and Media:

• Captain America: Civil War
  
• A post about fiction as catharsis and fanfic
  
• WisCon 40 Panel Write-up Link Post
  
• Towards a working definition of “anti”
  
• Ladykiller in a Bind shows that we’re not ready to handle messy queer stories I feel like I don't know enough of the specifics to say if I 100% agree but it was definitely worth reading

General social justice:

• Airbnb’s racism problem is much bigger than a few racist hosts.
  
• How Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter helped police target black activists
  
• Inside The Strange, Paranoid World Of Julian Assange
  
• Opinion: why we should beware of the word ‘traditional’
  
• Further Activism for Aussies: outcomes and new scripts
  

Tips for fighting fascism:

• DOES STREET PROTEST MATTER? (the answer is "yes")
  
• History has already shown us what happens when we play that record
  Nazism succeeds—insofar as it succeeds—by exploiting the fatal flaw in liberal democracies
  
• a short twitter thread re: punching nazis
  
• mlk and civil rights protests in cartoons: then, as now
  
• Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. I'm a bit iffy on the patriotism bit but then again
  it was a big thing in the resistance of Denmark against the Nazis so idk
  
• It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance

Good luck you guys :(