May 2011
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desire is power. it isn’t a matter of politicizing desire, whether or not it is possible or useful to politicize desire. like all of our characteristics, it is socially constructed. the biological impact is merely calibration, not determination. there is also the fact that in most societies, the available social constructions of gender barely give voice to the near infinite variation of...
dirty laundry.: “I want poetry that shrieks in the... →
debaucherie:
“I want poetry that shrieks in the night, breaks glass, sets fires and takes what it wants; poetry so beautiful in its terrifying convulsiveness that mirrors would shatter when held up to it; poetry that refuses the pettiness of everyday life and instead tears with swords through the curtains…
Ciscentrism SUCKS!: GSM or LGBT? →
nimself:
iamabutchsolo:
deadlegsonwheels:
GSM stands for Gender & Sexuality Minority
I prefer it to LGBT because GSM is more inclusive
Basically any gender or sexuality that isn’t considered heteronormative could go under GSM. As well as lgbt the following genders/sexualities could go under…
It really should not. (thank you for saying this, if nobody had I would’ve been so upset)
...
African LGBTI Manifesto/Declaration →
quadrupleminority:
As Africans, we all have infinite potential. We stand for an African revolution which encompasses the demand for a re-imagination of our lives outside neo-colonial categories of identity and power. For centuries, we have faced control through structures, systems and individuals who disappear our existence as people with agency, courage, creativity, and economic and...
“When it comes to gays and lesbians, there are no shortages of debates and...”
– Sparky for Womanist Musings, “When Studies & Debates Are Insulting” (via tart-tart) (via sluthaditcoming) (via ohmayagod) (via sendmelies) (via anglophonic, thetart)
sexgenderbody: hey white people →
remnantof:
we’re privileged. we’re ignorant. our ignorance is preserved and rewarded by the system so that we will perpetuate it.
knowing this, and examining privilege, does not remove it. does not change the fact that the experience of POC is something we will never fully grasp, will never…
sexgenderbody: How To Successfully Derail Any... →
jaded16india:
So it’s been a while since I wrote one of these How To Guides. It’s only natural I write one now, I am after all that offisul WOC Stamp Of Approval, no? So here are a few handy tips!
1. Make the conversation about race to a conversation about gender oppression. This way, you…
what i just read: "Natural Poetics, Forced... →
whatijustread:
“The written requires nonmovement: the body does not move with the flow of what is said. The body must remain still; therefore the hand wielding the pen (or using the typewriter) does not reflect the movement of the body, but is linked to (an appendage of) the page. The oral, on the other hand, is…
sexgenderbody: so-treu: You’re not racist, you... →
so-treu:
You’re not racist, you love brown people!
A usually unacknowledged racism I have experienced not only from strangers, but regularly from friends and lovers is that of being exoticised for my race and skin tone. I quote, paraphrase and relay with barely any poetic license some…
What to say, and not say, to an autistic adult →
DON’T SAY: “I never would have known. You must be very high functioning.” SAY: “I obviously don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Are you sure?” SAY: “I obviously really don’t know anything about autism.”
DON’T SAY: “Isn’t that, you know, a kid thing?” SAY: “Damn, the media works hard to erase you. That sucks.”
DON’T SAY: “Don’t you get that from vaccines?” SAY: “I almost just...
Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy:... →
thefeministhub:
Reader teawithmilkandsugar sent in this article via an ask. The article is so vile that they even wrote “Asian Fetish or ‘Yellow Fever’ Is Causing A Stir At NYU’ without a hint of irony at all. There is only one thing left to do: Get the Douchefuck Bing Out Peeps!
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sexgenderbody: degausse: Racism: A Primer~* Racism... →
degausse:
Racism: A Primer~*
Racism is sociologically defined (and therefore not going to be used in the DICTIONARY) as policies and practices put into place to enforce hierarchies. These hierarchies are also known as ways to keep white people in power.
In short, racism = prejudice +…
“For anarchists who do know something about anthropology, the arguments are all...”
– David Graeber (via slamdanceonyourgrave)
“Community in this context is a mythical, frequently invoked and much misused...”
– Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability (2011)
“Usually when a black woman is attacked we find some way of making it her fault....”
– Antoine Dodson’s Sister: On Invisibility as Violence « The Crunk Feminist Collective
I hate when something is so great that I have to choose between feeling guilty about chopping it or feeling guilty about c&p’ing the entire thing. Hit the link, it’s that good.
(via tart-tart)
(via...
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dirty laundry.: “This poem manifested the erotics... →
debaucherie:
“This poem manifested the erotics of writing as an erotics of living; it put words like effeminate in play — the line, “Are you effeminate, like an eyelid, or are you feminine, / like a painting by Picasso?” condensed five layers of cultural education. In your face! Such fairy stories about one’s…
“Her beauty cannot be measured with the standards of a colonized mind.”
– Michelle NdegeOcello (via yourdaintyshadow)
POW.
(via so-treu)
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BlackNyx: The Stars Above, And The Stars Below... →
blacknyx:
If the earth is a sphere, then the abyss below the earth is also its heavens; and the difference between them is no more than time, the time of the earth’s turning. If the earth is a vast horizontal surface reflecting, invisibly, even for each woman her own proper soul, then again, the abyss below…
i am tired of using all my mental energy figuring...
itssciencefriction:
oh wow this post was made for me to reblog
it’s the story of my nonexistent social life and my dominant mood over the past six months encapsulated in one sentence
“That is the thing with oppression, it is violent and violence hurts. But unlike...”
– Queer, Gifted & Black (via creatrixtiara)
“I use the word queer to mean more than a lesbian. Since I first used it in 1980...”
– Dorothy Allison (via queerfatfemme)
uncannydeleuzeorgies asked: wow who are you -kalan
“As a woman writing, my language space, my cultural space is active with a...”
– from “Otherhow,” by Rachel Blau DuPleiss. (1990)
“Over the course of the past year, you’ve most likely come across strange stories...”
– Pretty scary.
Dead, Missing, Jailed – BP Whistle Blowers | Health Freedom Alliance (via uvmann)
Links to each individual case under question (from http://bpwhistleblowers.blogspot.com/): Professor Greg Stone http://www.lsu.edu/ur/ocur/lsunews/MediaCenter/News/2011/02/item25180.html Officer...
Being Sexy.
so-treu:
frenchnomenclature:
lamocosa:
hboogie:
swellgood:
Expectations:
Reality:
OH MY GOD, MADE MY EVENING.
that second gif is killing me softly
Dy-ing!
Ha!
lolololololololol
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I can hear the sound of empires toppling: An... →
duyukdv:
kiriamaya:
dunespicecat:
If I do say something wrong, or I’m coming across badly, by all means please let me know. I will not magically be able to figure this out on my own, and in fact I will just get very confused by whatever it is that I may have said wrong. I do not…
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Just Being Nimself: I'm not getting into whether... →
stifledthoughts:
hey, let aimee solve this one:
trans men have male privilege, but may not notice it until post transition due to not passing as a cis male. You can have privilege without passing as a privileged person.
trans women didnt have privilege from passing as a cis male. they may…
heteroglossia (the power of rejecting unity) →
fagglet:
So I’m reading A Cyborg Manifesto right now and I really like what Haraway says about how fucked up it is for (some versions of) radical feminism to try and pursue this unified voice or collective identity, as it erases the cultural contexts of those bodies and subsumes/erases the experiences of intersectionally marginalized populations. She proposes pursuing not “a common language,...