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Via Sociological Images. A Series of Questions: pictures showing questions that dehumanize and objectify trans people.

Many documentary photographic projects that deal with trans issues exploit the genders of their subjects, pointing to an "otherness" or inappropriately exoticizing their bodies. "A Series of Questions" seeks instead to make visible the transphobia and gender-baiting that can become part of everyday interactions and lives, forming a fuller picture of the various lived experiences. In so doing, this work contrasts with the dehumanizing approaches that predominate the images made of transgender and transsexual people, which often focus solely on their trans status or use them to further a specific point about social construction and gender.

Oh fucking shit

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This is Not an Analysis of Rape Culture. This is a Rant.

Trigger Warning for very graphic and disturbing descriptions of rape, as well as descriptions of death from alcohol poisoning.

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Why the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribes don't like the coming Wind Farms off Nantucket Sound

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This was a response to an article elsewhere


Cape Wind rejection recommended

By Gale Courey Toensing

Story Published: Apr 12, 2010

Story Updated: Apr 9, 2010

WASHINGTON – A federal agency on historic preservation has recommended that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reject a proposed massive wind energy project in Nantucket Sound – an area that is sacred to the Wampanoag nations and qualifies for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

On April 2, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation issued a seven-page report of its findings and recommendation to deny permits to Cape Wind Associates to construct a wind energy plant consisting of 130 wind turbine generators that would tower 440 feet above water level in a 24-square-mile area on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, which lies between Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The proposal includes plans for a 66.5-mile buried submarine transmission cable system, a centrally located electric service platform and two 115-kilovolt lines totaling 25 miles connecting to the mainland power grid.

“The historical properties affected by the project are significant and closely interrelated,” ACHP wrote. “The project will adversely affect 34 historic properties, including 16 historic districts and 12 individually significant historic properties on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island, and six properties of religious and cultural significance to tribes, including Nantucket Sound itself. These districts and standing structures reflect the broad array of properties that represent the rich and unique architectural, social and cultural history of Cape Cod and the island.”

The project would also destroy, damage and alter part of the seabed of Nantucket Sound, potentially destroying archeological resources.

“The ACHP recommends that the secretary not approve the project,” the report says.

The report stressed that the development of renewable energy projects “is not inherently incompatible with protection of historic resources so long as full consideration is given to historic properties early in the identification of potential locations.” It suggests that the Cape Wind project could be relocated to an alternative site “in the vicinity of the current project area.”MORE

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