Please Help Our Voices Be Heard!!

Source: Dyke Strippers; Lesbian Cartoonists A to Z , edited by Roz Warren

“In Iran, I hated being a woman ! Because a woman is guilty… of her breasts, her hair, body shapes. Guilty if being looked at, guilty if being touched, guilty if attacked. It’s odious, because everyone ends up integrating this nonsense.”

Le Monde.fr

Golshifteh Farahani : « En Iran, j’ai détesté être une femme »

« Je ne serais pas arrivée là si »… Chaque semaine, « Le Monde » interroge une personnalité sur un moment décisif de son existence. Partie d

old gods are waking

This is Sepideh Gholian. She is a worker’s activist who lead the workers of Iran’s sugar factory in their strike. The workers hadn’t been paid for seven months and were shot at when they protested for their rights.

Islamic republic of Iran sent 30 MEN to arrest this woman and she is in jail to this day as are many other workers who were arrested in that strike 5 years ago.

This is Sattar Beheshti. Iranian worker and blogger who was imprisoned for speaking about the condition of workers in Iran and died as a result of torture. The government said he had sustained unexplained head trauma-exactly like Mahsa.

These are only two examples. If you are a communist-leftist of any kind and you do not speak up against islamic republic of iran shame on you. You don’t give a shit about workers you just belong in an anti-American circlejerk online.

One of the Youtube comments on a Video of the Iranian Revolution. Most Likely from an Iranian Woman.

"We keep saying basic human rights,but I don't think the non iranian truely understand what we mean... it's the right to :

eat/drink whatever you want

Read/watch/write whatever you want

Have an opinion,and express it in any shape or form that you want

Check into a hotel or travel an unmarried woman to wherever you want

Practice whatever religion you want

Study whatever subject you want

Date/marry whomever you want

Own a freakin dog as a pet if you want

Wear whatever you want

These are BASIC human rights... that Iranians don't have and get arrested for on a daily basis, tourtued and killed for the last 43 years."

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

also re the whole “i skip large chunks of texts and skim read so i can read 300 digestible smutty half baked toxic romance books a year” epidemic, people need to be taught that writing isn’t just a means to an end to say something across a speech barrier okay writing is a medium that needs skill and discipline. i feel like now is the first time in recorded history where the written word has been this undervalued