Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[J Ed]

Belarussian working-class, check your privilege and accept your guilt for the African slave trade!

 

[sihhi]

Team Liberation.

Hah ha hah.

Wow.

The concept of 'liberation teams' is actually a part of some US universities' human resources departments:

Welcome to the homepage for Oregon State University's student-led human relations facilitator group, Team Liberation.

It is our mission to provide safe spaces for respectful communication related to issues surrounding social justice including race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, age, and ability.

As an organization, we do work that is two-fold. As part of Team Liberation, members are provided the opportunity for formal and peer-to peer training and mentoring for students, staff, faculty, and community members. We use the skills built through formal training and mentorship in order to work in and around the community of Oregon State University.

By request, Team Liberation is designs and facilitates workshops on issues related to social justice, community building and organizing, and communication.

http://oregonstate.edu/sli/teamliberation

 

[butchersapron]

Welcome to the homepage for Oregon State University's student-led human relations facilitator group, Team Liberation.

It is our mission to provide safe spaces for respectful communication related to issues surrounding social justice including race, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, age, and ability.

As an organization, we do work that is two-fold. As part of Team Liberation, members are provided the opportunity for formal and peer-to peer training and mentoring for students, staff, faculty, and community members. We use the skills built through formal training and mentorship in order to work in and around the community of Oregon State University.

By request, Team Liberation is designs and facilitates workshops on issues related to social justice, community building and organizing, and communication.

What do you pay your cleaners? Your cooks? Your security staff?

 

[frogwoman]

Dale Farm residents, accept that you are privileged over Barack Obama for your white skin!

 

[sihhi]

Belarussian working-class, check your privilege and accept your guilt for the African slave trade!

Not responsibility to protect oppressor feelings.

from

http://cariosity.tumblr.com/post/28649652065/the-white-tears-gif-makes-no-sense-shes-russian

In response to:

the white tears gif makes no sense, she's russian, she's not white like that, i mean her race may be white but they have nothing to do with the white people here..

 

[chilango]

The concept of 'liberation teams' is actually a part of some US universities' human resources departments:http://oregonstate.edu/sli/teamliberation

 

[sihhi]

Dale Farm residents, accept that you are privileged over Barack Obama for your white skin!

Sorry etc.

 

[frogwoman]

Moldovan working class, check your privilege! You might be earning less than 20 euros a month but at least you're white!

 

[butchersapron]

Sorry etc.

Is that cultural appropriation of egyptian/nubian neck stuff?

 

[el-ahrairah]

But this goes back to keeping everyone alert and setting up safeguards as far as possible.

yep.

 

[el-ahrairah]

What do you make of people in pink armbands doing/helping keeping these policies in line?

every society needs its cops, i guess

 

[phildwyer]

wtf is male-identified?

People who pretend to be men on the ınternet.

 

[butchersapron]

Sorry etc.

Fancy a conger stew now.

 

[chilango]

...and so this kinda crap happens.

 

[el-ahrairah]

People who pretend to be men on the ınternet.

are you self-identifying there?

 

[frogwoman]

...and so this kinda crap happens.

Check your privilege, Kosovan Albanians. Accept your responsibility for perpetuating an oppressive system and the enslavement of brown people all over the world!

 

[cesare]

Do you serıously thınk ıt could exıst outsıde a unıversıty?

Not really. But I don't know much about universities.

 

[chilango]

Is that cultural appropriation of egyptian/nubian neck stuff?

 

[sihhi]

What do you pay your cleaners? Your cooks? Your security staff?

This is the kind of stuff they promote:



It helps you gain

Applications for the Winter 2012 Training are now available!

Benefits of joining Team Liberation

Improve your communication and leadership skills

Gain valuable experience

Develop an increased capacity to work across differences to build communities

Build your resume/CV

Earn credits through an internship

Funds for social justice conferences, trainings, and retreats

Working with students and faculty dedicated to social justice

This is their library (note that for class liberation they have Nickel and Dimed, which while I'm sure is useful, is still a middle-class ride through the working-class for under a year).

 

[chilango]

That's a very small library.

 

[Limerick Red]

Accept your whiteness, Sinn Fein. Even tho you have been discriminated against you and your families have ultimately been accepted.

this is pretty much true though.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Team Liberation.

Hah ha hah.

Wow.

Liberation fuck yeah! Coming again to save the motherfucking gay yeah! Liberation fuck yeah! Intersectionality's the only way yeah!

 

[SpineyNorman]

Bollocks, you got there before me

 

[rekil]

"Anyone who doesn't know how to play Homophobic Arsehole (to a competent level) by Senseless Things, just haul your heteronormative husk outside and step in front of a big lorry please. And trigger alert!"

 

[frogwoman]

oy vey

 

[Idris2002]

Only if you are originally from Gaeltacht and speak Irish as a matter of course, anything else would be cultural appropriation, you're still white remember, from the same racism awareness training volume:

You're joking, of course, but a while back I saw a report on new immigrant groups in Ireland (by a couple of Irish academics) which in all seriousness described the Gaeltachts as "Ireland's bantustans".

Where. Do. You. Even. Start.

 

[sihhi]

Not really. But I don't know much about universities.

Here's the British version... slower to get going - that Oregon uni HR wing has been around since 2001.
Eventually university management will start endorsing the intersectional perspective.

The Feminism and Teaching Network's Feminism and Teaching Symposium in 2011.

Wine for the lunches:

Here's the main speaker Dr Ben Brabon:

My primary area of research is in British literature and culture from the period 1760-1840, the rhetoric of nationalism and critical theory. Book publications in this area include The Influence of Benedict Anderson (2007) and Gothic Cartography: A Literary Geography of Haunting (Palgrave 2010). I am also interested in contemporary representations of men/masculinity and postfeminism. Book publications in this area include Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave 2007) and Postfeminism: Cultural Texts and Theories (Edinburgh University Press 2009). Current book projects include Key Concepts in Popular Culture (Sage 2011) and The Spectral Phallus (2011).
I am a founding member of the North Gothic Network (NGN), a regional network of the International Gothic Association (IGA).

post- everything in action - in desperation struggling against a backlash to the liberalism with... more liberalism.

Drawing upon his experience of teaching two modules that involve situating men and masculinity within feminism, his workshop will reconsider men’s position and roles within the feminist movement and problematise postfeminism’s potential to generate a male feminist perspective.

Dr Brabon explained: “In a postfeminist era, men’s and masculinity’s relationship with feminism has been troubled – not least because at times an inverse logic is applied by critics, whereby men are represented as oppressed simply because they are men. This levelling of the field of power, combined with the continued invocation of sexist and essentialist ideas within the general media and popular press – albeit often with a sense of postmodern irony – further complicates men’s affiliation with a contemporary feminist discourse.”

Break-out session on intersectionality discussing working-class people

Here's Break-out session on masculinities

 

[JimW]

Trigger alert: you will be taken outside and shot in the neck after the revolution.

 

[sihhi]

I should add, of course, academic workers are part of class struggle.

But in intersectionality terms, how can you do the intersectionality by talking to other academics - wasn't it meant to be the working-class women crossover that leads that struggle, and you just faithfully report what they are saying.

 

[cesare]

So this is what universities are like?