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Should Be My Family’s Motto
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James
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A Critter Carol
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What a Day That Was
You feel like talkin’ to someone/who knows the difference between right and wrong
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No Illegal People
Once you label a people “illegal”, that is exactly what the Nazis did to Jews. You do not label a people “illegal.” They have committed an illegal act. They are immigrants who crossed illegally. They are immigrants who crossed without papers. They are immigrants who crossed without permission. They are
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Tryborgs
I went looking for a word to name the Donna Haraways of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a word inclusive of cyberfeminists and transhumanists, a word that captures the theft of cyborg identity, and mocks the thieves a bit. I call them tryborgs. They have tried to be
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Consider Ourselves Cured
They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture and consider ourselves cured.
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A Success
Disabled women, Deaf women and neurodivergent women are never mentioned in the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’, which is strange, because the manifesto is full of appellations that have been, historically, applied to us (such as ‘monster’ and ‘creature’).2 Haraway does gesture briefly toward the 1969 novel The Ship Who Sang by
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selling cyborg parts on ebay
Hello, any chance you have a moment to answer a few questions? 1. Why are you selling this leg/arm? 2. Have you decided to go with Ossur? Or something else? 3. It seems like a very fair price. How did you arrive at the price? 4. What has been
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Oh, I Like This Lady
Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse. A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library
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Mean Nothing Else By It
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence
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Once in a Lifetime
Time isn’t holding us. Time isn’t after us.
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