“I was in the Young Lords, and one of the points in the original program was ‘Revolutionary Machismo’. Machismo is reactionary, so you can’t have revolutionary machismo. We women weren’t having it. So we made a very different kind of statement. ‘We want equality for women. Down with machismo and male chauvinism.’”
Denise Oliver-Velez, born on this day in 1947, is a former member of both the Young Lords and Black Panthers, as well as an American professor, activist, and community organizer. Oliver-Velez is an adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz.
Oliver-Velez was a member of both the Young Lords and the Black Panther Party (BPP), and fought to make the Young Lords a less chauvinistic and more feminist organization. In 1970 Oliver-Velez was appointed as Minister of Economic Development, becoming the highest ranking woman in the Young Lords.
In addition to her activism with the Young Lords, Oliver-Velez was also an AIDS movement activist, publishing ethnographic research as part of HIV/AIDS intervention projects. She has also worked in public broadcasting and community media for many years, becoming a program director and co-founder of WPFW-FM in Washington, D.C., Pacifica Radio's first minority-controlled station.
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Monkeypox is out of fucking control in parts of the United States.
Why have a CDC if the only thing it does is tell you to go to work when sick?
So that there someone to tell you to go to work when sick of course :porky-happy:
Yeah I'd really like a vaccination of some kind. I just assume it's gonna burn through the population.
Thankfully it seems like the death rate is very low and there aren't nearly as many potential long-term complications like with covid, but I'm still not excited about another virus just running rampant. After covid I'm not expecting anything to be done to control monkeypox, based on the severity of the illness.
i don't think we will see epidemiology taken seriously again unless it's a disease with a very high death rate, one that leaves you disfigured or that has little to no incubation time so people can clearly see cause and effect. by this i mean we're fucked.
I agree completely, if covid had a 0.0001% death rate but it made your dick shrink by 10%, we would have been boarded up in our houses by May 2020.
Using "no ethical consumption under captialism" or "you can't stop global warming with individual consumer choices" to defend rich people's private jet usage is beyond insane.
"Umm sweaty there's actually no ethical consumption under capitalism so it's ok if I have an orgy with all the other rich people while the poors compete to the death for my entertainment."
Anyone who tries to pull that bullshit is a disingenuous bootlicker who knows exactly what they're doing
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I accidentally misspoke when the waitress asked if I needed something and said “more chimps” instead of “more chips” and then she said “you’ll need to go to the zoo for that”I’m tempted to get the $50/month Patreon for :the-podcast: to get them to say “Amogus”
it would be funny, but there are probably better ways to spend your $50
For 49$ a month, I will train an AI to say “Amogus” using one of their voices, insert that into each episode, and set up a custom feed to seamlessly deliver the podcast to you.
idk enough to make a post about it, but it looks like pelosi is cancelling her trip to taiwan? apparently she's making a trip to singapore, japan, and south korea but is not commenting on taiwan at this time, possibly cuz the biden admin intervened? i guess threats work
if she's cancelling her trip to taiwan, that's pretty good. i guess the US won't be having a war with china over taiwan after all.
Surprised it got that far. As much as Trump made hawkish rhetoric on China mainstream, covid revealed how vulnerable supply chains are and how long it takes to normalize after a shock. Even if they were confident they could keep US casualties low and the war localized, it would be insane just to cut trade ties with China.
she found out she can get boba tea in DC and cancelled her trip
It's a new day and a new mega and I still love my trans comrades.
My dad is out of the hospital and well enough to have dumbass racist takes on the Zionist occupation of Palestine again. So that's kind of good.
