Links Post May 2019

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Links: Representation and Media

Critiquing Cultural Appropriation in Books That Are Kinda Meh

The Netflix-Twitter Complex An anatomy of a corporate smokescreen

Why you don’t want Tumblr sold to exploitative Pornhub


Links: Critiques of Social Justice Communities From Within

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements


Links: Queer issues
I Came Out Late in Life. And That’s Okay. Comic with no transcript

Links: Disability, Health, and Relationships

the link between people-pleasers and emotional abuse

Obesity On the Rise in Animals

Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified


Links: General Politics and Current Affairs
Appropriation of the language and symbols of the left is not just a recent strategy of the “alt-right”; it was already a (constitutive) feature of fascism in the early twentieth century

Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Ron Davis’ research is getting there! I’d seen a press release version of this and now it’s published! Early days of course—needs replication. Proposed ME/CFS biomarkers! I could wallpaper my smaller bathroom with them.

[sqbr]

Ha, true. But here's hoping.

[velithya]

Thanks for the link on CFS! My brother in law has it so I emailed it to my sister to keep her in the loop :)

[sqbr]

Happy to help!