A feminist pop culture adventure Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:00:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 /2011/08/12/topical-linkpost/ /2011/08/12/topical-linkpost/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:00:34 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=6858 Some viewpoints on this week’s events.

• Camilla Batmanghelidjh for the Independent: Caring Costs, But So Do Riots
• “‘Cause we’re not rallying together and fighting for a cause, we’re running down Foot Locker and teefin’ shoes:” Whether or not you agree with her, this woman’s speech on the streets of Hackney is impressive stuff. She’s now being politically figureheaded out the wazoo by at least two newspapers, which, well.
• Third Estate on The Riot and the Community: Some Impressions From Green Lanes.
• Penny Red: “Now is the time when we decide whether to descend into hate, or to put prejudice aside and work together.”
• Reading The Riot Act: quick post from our Rhian on her own turf.
• Hana Riaz: “I think we speak from a space of entire privilege when we attempt to frame certain forms of resistance and/or political action as legitimate versus illegitimate discontent.”
• Owen Jones: “My real fear is that we have just witnessed another crucial stage in the political ascendancy of the right.”
• And Zoe Williams, concluding for the Guardian: “Between these poles is a more pragmatic reading: this is what happens when people don’t have anything, when they have their noses constantly rubbed in stuff they can’t afford, and they have no reason ever to believe that they will be able to afford it.”
• And in the Guardian, which your unashamedly socialist editor thinks nails it, Seumas Milne: “These riots reflect a society run on greed and looting. While bankers have publicly looted the country’s wealth and got away with it, it’s not hard to see why those who are locked out of the gravy train might think they were entitled to help themselves to a mobile phone.”

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