Tag Archives: Civil Rights
Photograph of a train of noob avatars crossing a bridge over the Leda sim and with the typography "Noob Avatar Pride Parade" on top of the image.

Noob Avatar Pride Parade – Machinima

2013/02/04 Written by Production

I think this was the most fun parade so far. I loved being a noob again, walking around without an AO was kind of liberating!

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Previz #68 – Avatar Pride Parade

2012/08/09 Written by Previz

CIRCUIT LA CORSE, MEEWALH SIM, SECOND LIFE MAINLAND, 9 August – Over the course of VB/CO’s history our performance works have covered a wide range of aesthetic and ideological territory, but it’s probably fair to say that they have moved generally from more scripted to more individualistic. In VB04 – Prism, for example, we all [...]

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Human Rights on the Internet

2012/07/13 Written by Free Culture

Reblogged from Susan Crawford, The Blog The Human Rights Council of the UN has adopted a resolution supporting the equivalency of human rights online and offline – “in particular, freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless of frontiers and through any media of one’s choice.” The Council is calling on all states to promote and [...]

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Alan Turing & Title IX

2012/06/23 Written by People

BLETCHLEY PARK / WASHINGTON DC, 23 June – Today is British mathematician Alan Turing’s 100th birthday! Today is American law Title IX’s 40th anniversary! Today is an extraordinary day in Civil Rights history! Perhaps no single human being sits at the nexus of 2012′s culture and technology moment more completely than Alan Turing. As one [...]

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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: Vaneeesa

2012/06/07 Written by Biography

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSSETS, 7 June – Writer, blogger, wife, mother, feminist, and founder of The Mamafesto blog, Avital Norman Nathman has been posting profiles, This Is What a Feminist Looks Like, on Mamafesto for about a year now, and she recently invited Yours Truly to write one, which you’ll find both below and on the official [...]

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Vaneeesa Blaylock descending the steps of the federal courthouse in San Jose, CA after her losing her appeal against Google Inc. today

The Public Square

2012/05/03 Written by Social Networks

ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 2 May – Today Google Inc. made permanent their ban of Vaneeesa Blaylock from their unpopular social network site Google+, declaring Blaylock an illegitimate human being, her identity false, and determining that she had no civil rights and no human rights. In a written statement Justice Gundotra denied [...]

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Equal Protection

2011/05/28 Written by Biography , Social Networks

  MENLO PARK, CA, 28 May – It’s heartbreaking to realize that Facebook can be so inclusive to one oppressed minority as the above LGBTQ “It Gets Better” video clearly demonstrates, even as, one week ago, Facebook committed avatar genocide. “Avatar Genocide”?? I get it. Words like “Genocide” and “Slavery” are enormously powerful words that [...]

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Moderation

2011/01/10 Written by Blogs

CYBERSPACE, 10 January – In the glorious free speech year of 2010 Rose was moderated out of SL7B and VBCO was moderated out of Burn2. Probably a lot of other artists were moderated out of a lot of other things. Here at iRez, I have never moderated a comment out. We’ve had very little in [...]

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Drag!

2010/08/06 Written by Identity

SAN FRANCISCO, 5 August – Today United States District Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down anti-same-sex-marriage “Proposition 8″: Moral disapproval alone is an improper basis on which to deny rights to gay men and lesbians. The evidence shows conclusively that Proposition 8 enacts, without reason, a private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to [...]

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Violet Blue

2010/02/22 Written by Free Culture

SAN FRANCISCO, 22 February – Journalist, sex-blogger, and author of Open Source Sex Violet Blue has had her work “restricted” by Flickr. Flickr has decided, without cause, not exactly to “take down,” but to “restrict” the content, the online identity, the resume, the persona, the web2.0 presence, that she has built thru years of posting [...]

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