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divya, 10 days ago to random

Also TIL Arizona gov Katie Hobbs used to help run a domestic violence shelter

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/100957, p. 80)

divya, 10 days ago to random

TIL police jail victims of sexual assault or other violent crime to force them to testify against abusers.

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/100957)

divya, 23 days ago to random

These stories give a more full depiction of the horror visited upon the Iraqis with the American invasion. One story is about a man who leaves a mental asylum not knowing who he is – other than what is in his file – because the Americans demolished the walls thinking it was a military facility. Another is about how horrific it was to be a woman under the Baathist regime to be a leftist person who does not believe in Baathist regime ideals. I learned how close Iraq is to Iran and started looking for news about both the countries. I learned 3 Iraqi women who were influencers have been killed in Iraq www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/27/iraqi-tiktok-star-om-fahad-shot-dead-in-baghdad-night-attack and how Iran began a crackdown on women who did not cover their heads at the same time they launched their missiles on Israel military targets. www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/iranian-women-violently-dragged-from-streets-by-police-amid-hijab-crackdown

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/86589)

divya, 23 days ago to random

"“ They found that out of nearly 113,000 emergency visits that year related to sexual violence, 16% resulted in out-of-pocket costs for the survivors.

In those cases, the average cost of care was $3,551 per person. Costs were higher for pregnant people: $4,553 per person, on average.”"

— Kylie Cheung: https://sfba.club/book/100957

This is actually from NBC news coverage of the same study quoted in this book.

divya, 1 month ago to random

"Sahitharan was a twenty-nine-year-old asylum seeker from Sri Lanka. He was waylaid by a group of young whites and bashed to death in London…Over 4000 people from all ethnic groups joined the march…there were only 150 tamils…the largest non-Tamil representation…was made up of black Africans. It was of interest that the trustees…of the Wimbledon Hindu temple denied the organizers of the march the right to hang posters on the temple premises. Their reason? "We do not want to antagonize the white community""

— E. Valentine Daniel: https://sfba.club/book/85782, pp. 188-189

Once again, it is clear how big the gap is within casteism vs racism.

divya, 1 month ago to random

"You ask me about Tamil nationalism. There is only Tamil internationalism. No Tamil nationals. Never was. Never will be. This is Tamil internationalism. Being stuck in a windowless room in Thailand, or a jail in Nairobi or Accra or Lagos or Cairo or America. Or being a domestic servant in Singapore or Malaysia for a rich Tamil relative. Being part of a credit card racket in London. Crossing Niagara Falls into Canada. I am told there is even a Tamil fisherman on Norwegian island near the North Pole. All internationals."

— E. Valentine Daniel: https://sfba.club/book/85782, pp. 176-177

divya, 1 month ago to random

"In the many days that I spent with Tamil militants who were fighting for separate state of Eelam, only once did they invoke Tamil historic past,-!: then only to yoke it to the romanticism of the bourgeois Tamil politicians of the then outlawed Tamil united liberation front"

— E. Valentine Daniel: https://sfba.club/book/85782, p. 27

Interesting premise where the author talks about how the Sinhalese had created this myth about defeating Tamil King who apparently was an oppressor but Tamil people were uninterested in such mythology.

I see parallels with the myths used by Zionist movement and what is currently happening in Palestine.

divya, 2 months ago to random

Why is it that I have to learn from a murder mystery that there were several "whites only" gay bars in San Francisco? Not a single history I have ready of gay bars in SF mention that fact explicitly.

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/86707)

divya, 2 months ago to random

""While all Tamils proudly lay claim to Tiruvalluvar as their poet…it is the Parayans, the untouchable caste of drummers, who lay special claim to this famous poet. They consider Tiruvalluvar as their very own ancestor. To this day, the priests of Parayans are called Valluvars""

— E. Valentine Daniel: https://sfba.club/book/85782, p. 30

This is fascinating. Also, the author is talking about the caste that is vilified in English as the "P*riahs" so here is another reminder to stop using that word to describe people who are treated as less than human.

divya, 4 months ago to random

Pretty great overview of how to minimize energy use in the guise of rainwater harvesting. Really looking forward to Volume 2 and 3! The author lives in Tucson, Arizona and made their street a green oasis through thoughtful rainwater harvesting. dunbarspringneighborhoodforesters.org

(comment on https://sfba.club/book/77492)