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The Myth of the Panicking Disaster Victim →
raabia:
In her gorgeous book A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise In Disaster, Rebecca Solnit shows how this is how almost everybody responds to disaster, across continents and across contexts. When power grids are destroyed and city grids demolished, social grids light up.
This is so cross-cultural — from Haiti to New Zealand — that it is probably part of an...
February 2011
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“Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
January 2011
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December 2010
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“Never in twenty-three years of reporting on and supporting victims of sexual...”
– Naomi Wolf on rape, justice and Julian Assange - Boing Boing
I’ll just leave this here.
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November 2010
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