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People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Margaret Atwood (via thenovelapproach)
I just get emotional at formal celebrations, I can’t help it! I honestly teared up a bit watching some random middle school students perform a dance for Chinese New Year this past weekend at City Center Mall.
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More gender neutral pronoun graphics. Uh… I have no idea how popular these or other pronouns are so feedback and requests would be great!
I need this for something.
Gf and I were thinking about having a cooking show where we get stoned and then think of something we want to eat and then cook it AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, because last night we made oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough in less than five minutes and then displayed an incredibly synchronized routine of baking batches while playing rounds of mario kart.
When one group controls a space or institution, when only its members’ voices, concerns, and perspectives are relevant to the determination and organization of that space—that is to say, when that group ‘owns’ the space—it is their space, regardless of who else may enter. So when allies to trans women demand our inclusion without simultaneously demanding that that space be accountable to us—including that trans & cis women be equally in charge of what constitutes women’s space and feminism—they are not demanding fundamental change, only a softer supremacy.
Cedar, Beyond Inclusion
In case there was any remaining doubt why I don’t feel I belong among feminists, even when they pay lip service to “inclusion”.
(This could also apply to cis LGB orgs, of course. In fact, I was thinking about that as I was reading this.)
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softer supremacy. perfect way to summarize.
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There are a few people I need to send this to.
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A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
Why I question if the direction university programs is moving, in terms of things like the Community Service Learning (CSL) program and the push to volunteer and ‘get out into the community’ is actually only furthering the divide between those that have access to formal education and those that do not.
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This really annoys me: dream more work less
Because working is not a choice for a lot of people.
And you’re not somehow more enlightened cuz you value dreaming over a 9-5. It just means you are privileged.ps. dreams cost money too.
More additions (Fish sticker, Kitten stencil) to one very popular and beautiful mail box.
Yup I hate these too. Also what’s wrong with occupation anyway? (and I’m not talking about the fucking ‘Occupy’ “movement”. I’m talking about like, work, and doing stuff, in and of itself as a component of feeling healthy and whatnot. Anyway, I appreciate the documentation @foundmonton does, but I’d also love a space for critical dialogue about the types of street art that seem to be privileged as cool or rad and all the other stuff we don’t see on the blog…
Maybe I’ll go document all the cock and balls sharpie pieces done in bathrooms in city center mall and submit some for a more holistic representation of street art.
I think the remake of this poster is incredibly interesting, as is the intense response to it. Majestic had this poster on their door the whole time we lived together and it always gave me chills. It made me feel powerful and vindicated and righteous. I really like the original poster. I think it articulates very clearly the radical nature of queerness that the hetero world doesn’t really see. I never saw it as being a response to gay people who don’t identify as queer, and I find it really interesting that it has been utilized to make an entirely different point in its re-imagination.
On Tumblr and in queer communities I’ve been part of outside of the internet, there certainly is a trend of rejection of lesbian identity. In my experience, lesbians are often categorized as: “homonormative”, non-radical, apolitical, second-wave, oppressive, boring, and “vanilla.” In self-identified radical queer spaces, there is often a large-scale erasure of the extremely radical lesbian feminist history that allows us to have the language to critique anything in the first place, as well as a silencing of radical, living, breathing lesbian culture.
This is nothing other than misogyny. We are doused in a culture that thrives on the hatred of women. “Radical Queerness” isn’t immune from that, and in fact these communities are often responsible for perpetuating misogyny in many different ways. One of these ways is actually by discursively defining lesbianism as archaic, backwards, and inherently apolitical. I like using the word lesbian to describe myself. It’s not the only word I use, and often it is not all encompassing of my desires. But there are some spaces and some moments I experience with myself where queer just doesn’t cut it. When I claim the word, “Lesbian” to talk of my sexuality and my politics, I invoke a rich history of brave women who taught me everything I know about survival, and fuck, is that powerful.
I don’t believe this poster to be “queer-hating”, nor do I think it is setting up a dichotomous relationship between queers and lesbians. I think it is asking us to question a culture of radical queerness that elevates certain identities over others (ie: if you are queer, you are inherently more radical than if you are lesbian.) It is asking us to think hard about this tendency to silence and erase radical lesbian history and it is a reclamation of a perfectly valid and resistant sexual politic.
-Ashley
this makes me want to cry because yes, all of the above
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reblogging (again) for commentary. exactly on.
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