January 2012
97 posts
kermitthefrrog:
So i’m submitting my paper to my teacher on the submission website and i clicked the wrong file to send her.
I sent her this gif on accident.
i HOPE one of my student submits a gif of this to me instead of their paper
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“Hooking up in radical communities, I have found, is still run through with off-balance power dynamics, machismo and hierarchy. Our non-conforming relationships are still centered around ego and access, ownership and control. …. What troubles me about our hookup culture is that it posits freedom and liberation, yet offers us so few options for ways that we can be together, and...
TUSD Ethnic Studies Audit →
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ultramaricon:
This is the official internal audit by the Tucson Unified School District that lists questionable materials recommended for removal from school libraries. It’s in downloadable PDF. I think it’s important that it be preserved in the Borg mind.
Dear Tumblr: I’ll put this in terms you can understand. This document reads like it was written by Dolores Umbridge, if you...
I WOULD LIKE TO START A SUPPORT GROUP/DISCUSSION...
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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,...
Desperado LGBT Film Festival - Phoenix, Arizona →
yo phoenix, check this out
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You...”
– C.S. Lewis
TUMBLR IN ONE QUOTE.
(via rainbowchibbutt)
(via emmalyn, quote-book)
reblogged for dorightwoman
“If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on...”
– David Ogilvy (via austinkleon)
yes please
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FACT: When a trans man senses danger, his natural...
“I have come to understand that Butch and Femme are an insistence on feminism...”
– Carmen Vazquez, Butch Voices 2010 (via fuckslikeagirl)
FACT: When lesbians orgasm, they cum rainbows.
i’ve been saying.
“‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via youngfolksociety)
a moment, a feeling, a smell, a vision, my family, my bed, a conversation, food, life..
(via lauramilham)
FACT: Trans* persons are actually alchemists. Not...
for personally-rad
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“[Students] are the reason we exist as a profession. Since we’re not immortal, we...”
– “On Gratitude in Academe,” Thomas H. Benton. The Chronicle of Higher Education. (via dorightwoman)
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“Let him who can deceive me; so long as I think that I am something, he will...”
– Descartes, Meditation III (via personally-rad)
lol
…SOON
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How many Smiths fans does it take to change a...
missnikkisparkles:
danhelldanger:
strangeasanjles:
Re: BEST LIGHTBULB JOKE EVER.
Lololol
:)
Kendall: I'm going to give you emotional laxative.
Erika: Is that counseling?
“But in the scene at the wine bar where Jules finally asserts to Nic that she...”
– The Ugly Truth About Why the Kids are All Right | Dyke Culture in Bloom
says who
“Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the...”
– David Halperin (via silas-says)
fyi if he said this sentence in real life in 2011, he wouldn’t mean it in a good way :( (via besttumblr)
i don’t know about real life 2011 DH. tracking back?
“If a dude needs to come out as a gay dude on Glee, he comes out. If a girl needs...”
– Girls Don’t Need Boys to Rescue Them, AfterEllen.com (via iheartsantanalopez)
lolololol
edit: the saddest lol. …the first time i cried at glee was when they lumped “i kissed a girl” in with “landslide” and “constant craving.” it. hurt.
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The Ugly Truth About Why the Kids are All Right |... →
by Jasbir Puar and Karen Tongson
i knew there was a reason i never could delete my tumblr draft of allllll the thoughts about this film. debate intelligently resurfacing…
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iphysianthe:
my mom’s argument against piracy is “well what if you wrote a book and one person bought it and then hundreds of people got to read it for free and you didn’t make any money!”
MOTHER YOU HAVE JUST DESCRIBED
LIBRARIES
also academic publishing
best
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a...”
– Joan Didion (via austinkleon)
fascinating
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket. (via wallofbooks)
republican candidates yearbook photos →
click through click through (via zefrank)
“Those last questions had also been raised by Judith Butler before they had come...”
– Queer and Then? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tucson says banished books may return to... →
but not really, they won’t
“Teachers not under the MAS banner and in other schools throughout the district...”
– TUSD Banning Books? Well Yes, and No, and Yes | The Range: The Tucson Weekly’s Daily Dispatch
racist.
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“You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.”
– Philip Glass
reminder from the start-anywhere of 1/18/11
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Moved: the PhD in rhetoric should not take more... →
great comments on this post, too, advising graduate students on how to think of their reading/comps before the diss
Gendered Conference Campaign « Feminist... →
transacademia:
really though, why is writing so impossible?
i feel like this is kind of what diane davis’s inessential solidarity is about
