January 2012
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negationparty:
LEO (July 23-August 22): Cleaning up and sorting out the financial end of things is an assignment unlikely to get resolved in only a day or two. Nor is it something most of us anticipate with eagerness, since any messes we might find ourselves in are usually a result of not having wanted to fully deal with the problem-at-hand when it first presented itself. Furthermore, we may not...
“To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists,...”
– Irena Klepfisz, Jewish lesbian poet and activist, from the essay “The Distances Between Us”, 1985. (via feministquotes)
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martaunderthesea:
Blink-182 - Peggy Sue
morale is low
+ I have a job
+ I do not have to pay rent
- this “not getting paid” situation still came at a really bad time
+ my parents can help me get through at least this week/weekend
- I feel very guilty for receiving said help, they have their own bills to pay, like my mom’s hospital bill and the mortgage. This should not have happened and it isn’t their responsibility.
+...
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is this Jawbreaker reunion legit?
because I am going to be very mad if I just shit myself for no reason
don’t lie to me, internet. I’m onto your shitty posters. I hate you so much it’s killing us both.
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awkward conversations with strangers about my...
awkward conversations with strangers about my gender
“It’s amazing I’ve lived this long without destroying a person.”
– Maurice Sendak to Stephen Colbert
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“Speaking from the perspective and the tradition of lesbians of color, most if...”
– Emi Koyama’s “Whose feminism is it, anyway?”
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I WOULD LIKE TO START A SUPPORT GROUP/DISCUSSION...
feral-femme:
there are lots of white queer people who i hold very near and dear to my heart. my best friend/platonic life partner, my girlfriend, and many of the queer people who i am closest to are white. my mom is also white and is kind of queer. i think they all identify and work on being anti-racist white people but there are still, obviously, plenty of instances where i feel alienated...
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I can't remember what I've forgotten: Overheard at... →
catamite:
flirtingwithparadox:
TW RAPE AND VIOLENCE
tahlalaliaaa:
tumblinfeminist:
“I just wanted to say to him: If its ok for you to rape me because I was dressed like a ‘slut/skank/ho/whore’; then is it ok for me to shoot/stab/maim/kill you because you are a male who looks threatening? Aren’t you asking for it?”
Seriously you guys walking round in big drunken groups, wearing ...
habitsofbeing:
Big Soda, “Swearin’”
And when I...
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“I know I’m not the one you thought you knew back in high school
Never going,...”
– President Barack Obama - State of the Union (via thenewhotness)
“I support legal abortion (bortion bortion bortion)” - Barack Obama
(via synecdoche)
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“At Last has become arguably the most popular song in the U.S. for weddings,...”
– From Kenyon Farrow’s insightful Political Obituary of Etta James, Colorlines, 1/24/12 (via racialicious)
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For da rec
I’m signing up for the Reading Feminist + Queer Texts class. It’s going to be awesome, and one of the suggested events is a zine fest I’m tabling at, so like why would I not take this class.
(To be clear, I’ve taken lots of 8am classes, this will be my 5th one, out of 8 semesters. Started it off pretty br00tal this time, I don’t know when I fell asleep though it was...
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do you ever look at your tumblr and just get a...
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What would you do if
You signed up for a political theory class because you thought someone rad was going to teach it, and specifically focus on things you are interested in, like feminism, critical race theory, and queers.
Now, let’s say they changed the professor and it’s now taught by this white dude. This white dude who replaced the critical race theory with one James Baldwin essay (that you’ve...
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last night i went to a party with all of my...
suzy-x:
opheliadoris:
yes me too
OH HAY me three! Happy birthday Phil Hartman the Cat!
“I can’t wait to reblog this.”
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Re: Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged,...
mewmewfoucault:
funkyfest:
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I think the the “I’m trans” joke could have been clearer, because if it’s about trendiness and not the self-obsession and avoidance that I want to think that it is about, that’s a lil fucked up. But I think mewmewfoucault is on point with what the joke is most likely referencing. And yo, let’s not pretend that trans men don’t have cultural capital in queer spaces....
Re: Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged,...
mewmewfoucault:
youarenotyou:
i also think it’s weird how people are taking something that started out as, basically, ‘oppressive shit privileged people say’ and turned it into something else entirely. like, ironic self congratulatory “see we can laugh at ourselves and how we are all carbon copies of one another” shit. this is an opportunity to explore how harmful dynamics have manifested...
“In my imagination college is this place where they take you to a room and give...”
– Snuffboxisdead (via feral-femme)
too close to home
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
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look at this fucking irrational person
OF COURSE my reaction to being made aware of the fact that I have high expectations for myself would be the following thought:
“BUT MY EXPECTATIONS AREN’T HIGH ENOUGH!”
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I reviewed this wack book called White Riot for... →
Assuming that such a “definitive” look is even possible—which is frankly doubtful—it is a huge problem that the book doesn’t even seem to know that, as early as the late-’70s, there were fertile punk scenes in any number of major global cities, most of which were not nearly as homogenous as the editors assume. From NYC to London to Warsaw to Tokyo to Sao Paolo to Istanbul (yes, the first...