Link Roundup September/October 2016

Life happens.

Poor Cancer Care For Native Americans Might Be A Treaty Violation

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer among Native Americans, behind lung cancer, and it afflicts this population in an outsized way: Northern Plains Native Americans, for example, face an incidence of the illness 53 percent higher than non-Hispanic whites, and among Alaska Natives the incidence is 115 percent higher. Some of these risks are the result of genetics and lifestyle (obesity, alcohol and tobacco use), but poor care and lack of screening are also to blame. And much of that is due to appallingly meager funding for tribal health systems.

The white flight of Derek Black

Former Ku Klux Klan leader and current U.S. Senate candidate David Duke campaigns in Louisiana. Duke acted as a godfather and a mentor to Derek Black during his rise in white nationalism.

When Your Existence Is Up For Debate

Remarkably, Shulevitz ignores completely ADF’s longstanding mission to attack advances for LGBT individuals and the organization’s current and systematic attack on the rights of transgender individuals across the country. Instead, she describes ADF as a “Christian legal advocacy organization with mostly evangelical clients” and quotes their counsel in support of the view that protecting transgender individuals will violate girls’ “sincere religious or moral beliefs that they must practice modesty.” Also absent from her piece despite her insistence that ADF’s orchestrated lawsuits not be cast as “intolerance” are the arguments that ADF has advanced in court in support of it’s position.

A camp tries to reinvent the Hebrew language, so transgender kids can fit in

“They’re talking about it. But no one’s coming up with a solution yet,” Zebovitz said. “We can’t wait around.”

On Hebrew and Living in Gendered Language

Jane Harris, who was kind enough to engage in this discussion with me, said this: “It’s funny how Hebrew is so empowering to genderqueers and other trans* people who are Out, and allows them to use their own grammatic gender, but so unconvinient to Closeted folks, who get a reminder every time [they] refer to themselves.”

The language the government tried to suppress

One of Singapore’s most popular TV sitcoms of the 1990s and 2000s was popular in large part because its main character, Phua Chu Kang, was a Singaporean everyman who spoke in Singlish.

A Presidential Friendship Has Many South Koreans Crying Foul

Mr. Choi was the founder of an obscure sect called the Church of Eternal Life. He befriended Ms. Park, 40 years his junior, soon after her mother was assassinated in 1974. According to a report by the Korean intelligence agency from the 1970s that was published by a South Korean newsmagazine in 2007, Mr. Choi initially approached Ms. Park by telling her that her mother had appeared in his dreams, asking him to help her.