injustice
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On money: Health care, police officers, and social services.
What could our world be like if we had therapists patrolling the streets?
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On sex work and demand.
We could end sex work by pushing back against demand … but we need to help women feel less demand for money, not criminalize men’s demand for sex.
anti-prostitution feminists, anti-prostitution movement, Ayurvedic massage, border patrol, border policing, brothel-keeping laws, colonial legacy, colonialism, criminal justice, criminalization, criminalized transactions, decriminalized prostitution, demand, dismissive library listing, economics of criminalized transactions, elastic versus inelastic demand, feminism, feminist theory, GBI, global capitalism, global wealth tax, guaranteed basic income, human migration, human rights, human trafficking, immigration, immigration control, immigration enforcement, immigration policy, injustice, judges, Juno Mac, legislating morality, library listing, massage, massage therapists, massage therapy, misogyny, Molly Smith, Nordic model, objectification, objectification of women, policing, policing women, prohibition, prosecutors, prostitution, racism, racist enforcement, racist policing, Revolting Prostitutes, selectively enforced laws, sex, sex work, sex workers, sex workers rights, sexuality, Sweden, trafficking, undocumented immigration, undocumented migrants, War on Drugs, wealth tax, work, workers rights
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On vengeance and Ahmed Saadawi’s ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad.’
We all share blame for the ills perpetrated in our names, but some among us are made to suffer outsize portions of the costs.
Ahmed Saadawi, Albany, Arabic fiction, cocaine, cooperation, Correction, Correction (pt. ii), Correction part 2, corrections, evolution of cooperation, evolution of eusociality, forgiveness, forgiving, Frankenstein, Frankenstein in Baghdad, incarceration, injustice, Iraq, jail, jail poetry, Jonathan Wright, justice, Lori Milks, mass incarceration, most provable murder case I have ever seen, murder, murder victims, neurology, neuroscience, philosophy, poetry, poetry in jail, prison, public defender, punishment, rehabilitation, reprisal, restorative justice, retribution, Saadawi, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, terrorism, the healing power of forgiveness, the neurology of justice, vengeance, victims of terrorism, violence, War on Drugs
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On genetic inheritance and sexual assault.
Violence flourishes whenever people want control without putting in the work. But humans can stand against injustice.
animal breeding, arranged marriage, CAFO, consent, duck genitalia, duck rape, duck sex, ducks, evolution, factory farming, feminism, feminist, forcible fertilization, freedom, freedom of choice, gender violence, genetic inheritence, injustice, instinct, instinctual behaviors, interspecies sexual assault, lek mating, male feminists, manakin, mate choice, mating strategies, Mean, Myriam Gurba, orangutan, parenting, patriarchy, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, puppy mill, rape, rape culture, rape in nature, sexual assault, sexual autonomy, sexual violence, slut shaming, smooth guardian frogs, the opportunity to consent is sexy, violative assault, violence, what does evolution want, zoo, zoos
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On Liu Xiaobo, monster hunter.
“If you be good and grow strong, you can help your father fight the monsters.”
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On driving.
If you know you’re safe from the police, why not zip along? Get where you’re going faster! But these small choices feed injustice.
america’s original sin, Bill of Rights, Black Lives Matter, Car Wars, City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, Civil forfeiture, constitutional law, cops, David Harris, Douglas Husak, driving, ESPN First Take, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fourth Amendment’s Death on the Highway, illegal stops, impeding traffic, Indiana Prisoners’ Writing Workshop, injustice, institutional racism, jim wallis, Justice Marshall, Justice Sotomayor, marijuana, Mark Schlereth, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project, minority rights, overcriminalization, Pages to Prisoners, paraphernalia, police, policing, quintet of hate machines, racial injustice, racism, Rikers, Second Amendment, segregation, solitary confinement, speed limits, Stephen A. Smith, Strieff dissent, Supreme Court, The Bail Trap, The New Jim Crow, transporting alcohol, Tyrone Tomlin, unreasonable search and seizure, Utah v. Strieff, war on cops, War on Drugs, white privilege, Whren v. United States
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On wasted ingenuity.
Everyone strives, but we force some to waste their efforts reinventing the wheel – or the water heater, or the piano, or…
Albany, Attica, automation, Blood in the Water, capitalism, childhood trauma, criminal justice, Deirdre N McCloskey, Demetrius Cunningham, economics, Growth Not Forced Equality Saves the Poor, Heather Anne Thompson, imprisonment, injustice, jail, Learning to Hear on a Cardboard Piano, Lori Milks, New Yorker, one sheet per day, poverty, prison, prison writing, punishment, punitive justice
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On Charles Foster’s ‘Being a Beast’ and battling the empathy gap.
If Charles Foster can learn, & care, what it’s like to be a badger, all citizens should be able to empathize with the experience of Homo sapiens from other ethnic backgrounds.
agricultural revolution, all lives matter, Being a Beast, Black Lives Matter, brains, Charles Foster, civil forfieture, common ancestors, Donald Trump, empathy, empathy gap, evolution, family first, faulty roadside drug tests, Hungary, incarceration crisis, injustice, Jeneen Interlandi, jeremy betham, John Oliver, living as a badger, natural selection, Neil Gaiman, neurological basis of empathy, Peter Singer, power racing, psychology, reading fiction develops empathy, river otters, Roma, swift, The View from the Cheap Seats, tofu, utilitarianism, vegan, vegetarian
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