February 2012
15 posts
when i graduate and leave my current job, i am going to be so sad to leave - well, lots of things and people; but one thing i’ll miss is our fancy networked photocopier, which can automatically scan and email whole stacks of paper
this may be the pinnacle of current office-assistant-assisting technology
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Seventh Annual Women of Color Arts and Film...
Seventh Annual Women of Color Arts and Film (WOCAF) Festival announces Opening Night Centerpiece and Closing Night Films March 15 -18 in Atlanta
ATLANTA (February 21, 2012) — The seventh annual Women of Color Arts and Film (WOCAF) Festival is pleased to announce its opening night feature film, “The Education of Auma Obama” by Branwen Okpako , taking place at Walter C. Hill...
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hey i got accepted to SEWSA 2012 and they forgot...
just learned that i will in fact be presenting at the southeastern women’s studies association conference in fairfax because a prof saw my name in the program
yay, more or less; time to get the conference funding ball rolling real quick
anyone else heading down there?
racism & die cis scum
grrlyman:
charthebutcher:
Forgive me for sending this as a submission and not an ask, but it’s way too long and I didn’t want to whittle it down and lose the nuance. Let me start off by saying that I’m happy that the fervor over your “die cis scum” tattoo has died down, and I don’t want to pile on for the sake of piling on. However, certain things have been nagging me about it for a while, and...
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Watchbrian massumi is
a political thinker i am enjoying reading right now
a soothing, coherent public speaker of fresh air proportions
fucking adorable
January 2012
34 posts
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ourcatastrophe:
quixotess:
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I absolutely 100% support women asking “Why should I have to guard my drink? Why should I have to be scared of walking home at night? Why should I accept this?”
I have a couple of questions though, more about the original image, directed toward no one in particular. And anyone feel free to tell me I’ve totally lost the plot.
First, do you think there is a...
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3xosc:
The first day in a long time that gender issues have brought me to tears
<3 i love you, friend; and it’s hard and i’m sorry beyond words; and i’m so glad i get to see your beautiful face soon
there's our catastrophe: there is a big difference... →
reblogging this post again because: man, this is so much (though not all!) of what is wrong with ‘ally’ politics as a cultural phenomena
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there is a big difference between "making space...
ourcatastrophe:
[…] being more concerned with not fucking up than with doing good is about your personal purity, not about the effect you have on the world, and very few people have the resources to maintain this illusion of purity for themselves. I hear so many rationalisations for staying within your comfort zone under the guise of “solidarity” and I have to say that they all strike me...
I WOULD LIKE TO START A SUPPORT GROUP/DISCUSSION...
besttumblr:
tangledupinlace:
feral-femme:
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,...
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
Re: Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged,...
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. Holy god,...
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Re: Shit (Young, White, Class-privileged,...
youarenotyou:
fugue-stasis:
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I don’t know. I’m just not thrilled with the way some pretty blatant transphobia seems to have gotten smashed in between a bunch of valid points about transandrocentrism, racism, class privilege, and misogyny. I wish it weren’t being passed around so non-critically by many of the people I follow.
i agree w/ this completely. the repetitive “i’m trans”...
Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios... →
Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos is an annual online academic journal dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship on the literary and cultural traditions of the Hispanic world. The journal is a graduate-student production of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky and publishes original research in both English and Spanish on diverse aspects of...
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Nobody ever told me Moby-Dick is a gay adventure...
transartorialism:
The first two chapters are a neurotic meditation on the narrator sharing a bed with another man. Who spoons him later.
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“sugar cane and mountain tops” by...
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High Museum bringing Kahlo and Rivera exhibit in... →
:3 !
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ourcatastrophe:
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that said: there are some things we’ve learnt from our mothers and teach our daughters that are damaging. How to diet, how to undermine other women, how to serve others and deny ourselves. I’d like to point out that the reason sugar is associated with femininity is because sugar has been cheaper than meat for about two hundred years now in the Western world. Women...
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Watchdisjoint:
rhamphotheca:
mycroftismight: What is this?!
This is a thing I saw when I was walking the path to the River of Souls (that’s a literal translation of the name, dramatic right) in Pirenópolis, Brazil (the city/village I was staying in).
It just looks like it came directly from a Miyazaki movie.
These creatures that look like “caterpillars” are actually the larvae of Sawflies...
zincfingers:
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and yes, i remember that butch bakery thing—it was so great, because the cupcakes were CLEARLY put together elaborately, with decorated toppers and fancy ingredients and soaking chocolate cake in fucking Bailey’s or whatever, but somehow they still stuck the “UNF SO MANLY NONE OF THIS FRILLY SHIT” on top
it was the epitome of masculine pageantry
i...
ourcatastrophe:
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weird obsessing over cupcakes is totally a thing in the states though right? since the 90s, with that sex and the city episode. also that vegan cupcakes take over the world book. maybe it’s more obvious here because even the word “cupcake” is imported.
what if I did a thesis on the spread of cupcake culture across the anglosphere. what if
give me a PhD...
I refuse to put my trans history in my sidebar...
