Kajo [he/him] 🌈

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I think it’s a more global movement.

    When I was recruited at my university in the early 2000s, every teacher had an ftp-accessible space with an http address like myuni.edu/~myname. The more techie ones did html, the fancier ones even added css. Muggles would export html from a Word document.

    Then one day, the IT department decided to replace this with a “learning management system”. A wysiwyg platform with dozens of modules for videoconferencing courses, homework submission, online exams, and so forth.

    Except that the user (the teacher) no longer has control over his or her personal space.







  • In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her “do you condemn Hamas?”, the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn’t have to prove or justify her humanity.

    I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?









  • TW : suicide

    Don’t be fooled, this has nothing to do with the fight against transphobia in France.

    The Minister of Education has been facing a shit storm ever since a newspaper revealed that his administration had prevented a harassed (cis) kid from speaking, and the kid ended up committing suicide.

    Faced with the scandal, the Minister asked his administration to take up all complaints of harassment and take action.

    It’s to their advantage that the debate is refocused on the symbolic violence of this intervention. The reason for the harassment is the least of their concerns.