Velociriot Special Announcement: IndieGoGo Launch!
Hello readers! As some of you may know, we are fast approaching our one year anniversary here at Velociriot. We launched on July 30, 2012, and it’s been an incredible year for us. We’ve gone from a...
View ArticleJanet who?
If you haven’t been following the on-going controversy surrounding Janet Yellen, I honestly don’t blame you. She currently holds the nigh-incomprehensible title of Vice Chairwoman of the Board of...
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Coming Clean: The Rob Ford ‘Crack’ Scandal
TW: drug use, racism, homophobia Earlier this year, the Toronto Star recovered a video in which Mayor Rob Ford appeared to be smoking crack. The initial video shows Ford “incoherent, trading jibes with...
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Tunisia: the mixed bag
Protests in Tunisia two years ago, from here. On Sunday, Jan. 26, Tunisia finally adopted a constitution, after its government was disbanded at the beginning of the Arab Spring three years ago. Nearly...
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Fascism exists, and it’s even on Reddit
[Trigger Warnings: cissexism, fascism] If you’ve had any experience with anti-oppression movements, you’ve probably seen people reference the horror of “Tumblr social justice”. That’s the way blogs...
View ArticleTwitter Tuesday: #bringbackourgirls
Four weeks since the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls in their dormitory by an Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the hashtag #bringbackourgirls has gone viral. Hashtag activism is not new. Recall...
View Article“Yes We Scan”: 3-D Printed Guns, Party Drones, and M.I.A.’s 1984
Released last week, M.I.A.’s self-directed music video “Double Bubble Trouble” is a psychedelic trip of lo-fi twitched images depicting a world not-so-distant from the present. In true M.I.A. form, the...
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Scott Esk: Spare the rod, spoil the child
[Trigger Warnings: sexism, heterosexism, abuse] The Tea Party-affiliated candidate for Oklahoma state house representative, Scott Esk, made headlines over the course of this week as it came out that he...
View ArticleWTF Wednesday: Todd Akin is back?!
[Trigger Warnings: rape, incest, sexism, cissexism, abortion] Todd Akin. You’re probably nervously giggling or exasperatingly crying, because of the long, long history he has of opening his mouth and...
View ArticleTwitter Tuesday: Israelis react to Zayn Malik
[Trigger Warnings: Zionism, violence, genocide, religious persecution] The on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine is nothing if not complicated. It stretches back more than half a century (or...
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