From an email I received today that is just too beautiful to not share.
katrin,
thank you so much for inviting me tonight. looking forward to it…and i’ve been thinking. all of us ‘do gooders’ in one room, we should not miss the opportunity to help and save the have nots
i’d like to propose a last minute addition to your party tonight, a fundraising drive for all attendees to bring something used that can then get dumped in Africaso as to adhere to best practices, i’ve identified a core need inflicting the people of the nation of Africa and I have a great strategy.
a used sex toy donation drive!!
you see, after the needy ‘others’ receive their newfound clitoris via Clitoraid, they are going to want to feel sexy. 1 million used t shirts just won’t meet the need.
and perhaps toss in a partnership with @solarafrica to promote longterm solar alternatives to battery operated pleasure devices. maybe toss a micro-finance program them in their to boot, for good measure
i know, i know, it’s amazing no one else thought of this. but truth is, i came on this earth with a mission to save other people and now i finally know how.
and you can help! we’ll need some marketing since this is sooo last minute, but didn’t jason sadler say he is a marketer, and that the ‘aid community’ is not embracing of his maddeningly brilliant skills?
bingo!
:)
see you tonight…bringing my red nipple tassels from my studio 54 days. i hear if you wear them out in the field and put deet on them, they are more effective than malaria nets
Here is the recording of the #swedow / #1millionshirts / #smartaid call, April 30 2010. People also transcribed/took extensive notes of the call here.
For much background reading on what has been said in the debate about a million shirts shipped to Africa, there is a summary of links here.
I am sure there will be more posts in the next 24 hours! Thank to all of you who partook in the call!
Interesting discussion about the brilliant “Design for the First World” on an MIT Media Lab list. One comment: “I suppose it’s tangential to the point she’s trying to make (which I agree is very cool), but neoliberal fat phobia is all wrapped up in the design of this project, and it’s not ok. There ought to be many better (and less sexist) ways to encapsulate the idea besides the one in which the thin, beautiful, underfed developing world saves our fat, lazy asses.”
The person quoted then posts some links:
http://kateharding.net/faq/but-dont-you-realize-fat-is-unhealthy/
http://jezebel.com/5356697/fat-vs-fiction
http://www.nyupress.org/books/The_Fat_Studies_Reader-products_id-11104.html
What do you think? Great point of Dx1W, wrong image?
Nice! Part of the NEW Foundation Center’s Glass Pockets initiative. Make those philanthropies more transparent.
Excellent article/analysis on the use and failures of using Facebook for organizing and mobilizing in Egypt.
Brilliant quote:
“There are two kinds of political activists. The first kind, the kind who changes the world, points to something that seriously needs to be seen, and cries out, “Look at this.”
The second kind, the kind who changes nothing, barks in a voice every bit as insistent, “Look at me.”
Who are you?
ctrl-alt-delete on the Wall in the West Bank.
Not sure where this picture is coming from, but powerful.
