Wednesday, July 15, 2015
A Compendium of Links relating to Systems of Oppression
1.) "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"; Or, What is Privilege in terms of Intersectionality
2.) "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Workplace Issues"; Or, Some Economic Issues facing the LGBT Communities post-Obergefell (2015)
3.) "One job, two lives: LGBT in the American workplace"
4.) "Marrying Health and Human Rights: How LGBT Health and Population Health Will Improve Because of Marriage Equality"
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Hegesias of Cyrene: The "Death-Persuader"
Through his arguments Hegesias persuaded many of his listeners to starve themselves to death.
~Plutarch, On Affection for Offspring
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--either dying by their own hand or those being fortunate enough to have died by the hand of a loved one.
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--either dying by their own hand or the more fortunate who died from the hand of a loved one.
There once came a cynic to Alexandria, who preached so compellingly of the evils of life and the virtue of death that following his fiery sermon the city fell witness to a conflagration that caught hold of the lives of many of its citizens--each dying either by his own hand or from the gracious hand of a loved one.
NB: In the final iteration, I took fortune out but left fatality in because it really doesn't matter in the end.
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