The most linked text in Swedish history
http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Nonfiction&id=47
"I am writing to you with a simple request, Beatrice Ask. I want us to
trade our skins and our experiences. Come on. Let's just do it. You've
never been averse to slightly wacky ideas (I still remember your
controversial suggestion that anyone who buys sex ought to be sent a
notice in a lavender envelope.) For twenty-four hours we'll borrow each
other's bodies. First I'll be in your body to understand what it's like
to be a woman in the patriarchal world of politics. Then you can borrow
my skin to understand that when you go out into the street, down into
the subway, into the shopping center, and see the policeman standing
there, with the Law on his side, with the right to approach you and ask
you to prove your innocence, it brings back memories. Other abuses,
other uniforms, other looks. And no, we don't need to go as far back as
World War II Germany or South Africa in the eighties. Our recent Swedish
history is enough, a series of random experiences that our mutual body
suddenly recalls."
Via http://www.metafilter.com/127079/Du-kan-g-nu
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"How come there's always money when those with few resources are to be
persecuted, but never money when those with few resources are to be
defended?"
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