It’s not the beliefs that are the focus, it’s the strategies used to coerce & control.

Using this framing I can’t help but think of the way children - & all of us - are acculturated into gendered scripts. These can be enforced so brutally & do so much harm. They scar us for life. As do ideas of racial & cultural hierarchy for that matter. Maybe hierarchy, power (esp entitlement to define) & control ARE the problem?

Thank you to the state of Victoria for conducting this enquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups. And to all the brave survivors of coercive practices, for speaking out.

#CoerciveControl #cults #acculturation #healing #victoria #ResponsibleGovernance

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/religion/2025/08/09/we-grow-afraid-victorias-public-inquiry-cults?utm_source=Clipboard&utm_medium=social&utm_term=read_shared_article&utm_campaign=social_share_icons&utm_content=sidebar_share

‘We grow up afraid’: Victoria’s public inquiry into cults

For a long time, Laura McConnell occupied a no-man’s-land. Sometimes she wonders if she’s still there. It’s the lonely space between her excommunication and her estrangement from “normal” society. Now in her mid 40s, she remains an outsider to both: a “dangerous” pariah to the sect she was banished from and an alien to the broader culture whose touchstones she never felt.

The Saturday Paper
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Before you continue to YouTube

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Ca y est nous avons quitté X et rejoignons cette belle alternative que représente Mastodon.
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In "L'open data, Droit d'accès et de réutilisation des informations publiques dans la société des données" d'Irène Bouhadana et de William Gilles LexisNexis

Un extrait de cet ouvrage paragraphe 1135 ( avec l'accord des auteurs)

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l'engagement des directions , des régions académiques et des opérateurs ,
au profit des élèves, de notre système éducatif.

Mobilisés à poursuivre dans ce sens .

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Like many Asian Americans, I have long spurned my full name. A wave of racism made me say: No more.

I am tired of hiding my true identity and I'm starting by changing my byline.

The Washington Post

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Pour tenir et exploiter des populations :
- inventer le groupe ;
- envoyer des ethnologues, des bureaucrates ;
- éduquer, civiliser.

"Le peuple Man est une invention du pouvoir impérial chinois. Les conflits qui opposent cet ensemble de populations originaires des rives du fleuve Bleu au pouvoir central durent plus d’un millénaire. Ils témoignent de la logique d’expansion qui accompagne la consolidation de la Chine impériale."

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/les-man-du-fleuve-bleu-face-a-la-chine-imperiale-1915733 #colonisation #agriculture #impôts #anthropologie #Chine #féodalité #histoire #éducation #conscription #Chine #impérialisme #pouvoir #acculturation

New article: "The Universal Periodic Review: A Catalyst for Domestic Mobilisation" by Michael Lane, published #openaccess in Nordic Journal of Human Rights:
https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2139076
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#softlaw
#humanrights
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The Universal Periodic Review: A Catalyst for Domestic Mobilisation

At its introduction in 2006, scholars were sceptical of the United Nations (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR), doubting whether its cooperative, ‘soft law’ approach would be able to affect positi...

Taylor & Francis
@lauren @TransitBiker @daskeit @calcifer @dermedientyp @Ciantic Moving to the Fediverse is actually a cultural change. There is only so much you can do with software only.
There should be a process for inviting people in, that makes you a 'guardian angel' for someone to negotiate all those initial hurdles of finding your instance, finding and following the people you want to or did on the old site, etc. Humanize the process.
#culture #acculturation #onboarding