February 2012
32 posts
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play dead — bjork
For all would-be academics. Please reblog widely. →
charlietangofoxtrot:
astationaryjew:
thewhywhygirl:
phdork:
This may well be the best use of the internet ever: crowd-sourcing adjunct working conditions as way to introduce transparency to and positive pressure on institutions that exploit the holy hell out of their highly skilled and dedicated workers.
Get on it.
$6,800 per 3 crédit course would be heaven since I 1,700 meant forgoing...
“Here we have like the only woman of color with origins in the Eastern third...”
– Commenter on “The Non Music Fan’s Guide to M.I.A.” (via arboretics)
for jon and jazz
“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
and you must chart a path beyond acknowledgement: divestment.
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queerly queer
from an earlier start-anywhere:
it feels like the empty west, haunted, alive, and lonely. it’s queer-without-identity, it’s never been A = A: it’s just infinite contexts, endless repetitions, and anything i can do to facilitate the flow of difference… my queerness is a wraith, a shadow, a haunting that forbids the murderous intervention. the face, saying No. saying stop. striking your...
Pariah Personals
latinosexuality:
Salon.com partnered with New America Media to run a series of coming out stories by LGBT youth of Color and LGBT immigrant youth titled “Pariah Personals,” the series is inspired by Pariah the Movie.
Read the Pariah Personals .
joiekenn:
Came home from work and slept from 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dreamed of crashing weddings with med school friends while mounted on a bicycles in vaguely Midwest suburbs. The weddings had celebrity attendants, and we bought expired confectionary antacids with a broken credit card. Later I wandered through anachronistic villages that were fecund and prospering in utterly gigantic secret...
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized - The New Yorker
(via stopdroptroll)
nice
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WatchI held the door this morning for a woman coming out of the bathroom in the library. The woman turned, looking at me, and gave me directions to the boys’ bathroom.
“I came to theory because I was hurting— the pain within me was so intense that I...”
– bell hooks (via queerhappy)
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“In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin...”
– Phillip Glass, interviewed by his cousin, Ira Glass (via austinkleon)
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Erika: I want a fudgecicle.
Kendall: Oh, yeah?
Erika: STOP.
transartorialism:
There was an unseasonable thaw at the beginning of February. The snowdrifts in the yards melted and revealed piles of mud; what I thought was just snow turned out to be thrown-out mattresses or discarded desk chairs, now soggy and rotting. Grey water sluiced down the streets, puddling at the curb cuts. Part of the top of my cheap pair of patent boots from the thrift store...
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“Don’t follow me, as an activist!—I do weird little Power Points on...”
– Jack Halberstam, Q&A at UT Austin tonight
Restaurant Owner in Knoxville kicks Homophobe out... →
lauramilham:
tennesseeeeeee :))
get after it
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blow, you old blue northern
Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of... →
there’s a lot to be blogged about in this interview:
the relationship of academics to theory and “high theory” v. low theory
learning through failure
butch parenting
going by transgender butch
critiquing the term “masculine of center” (yep)
the relationship of categories and community, and what that means for naming (one’s) identity
gotta start carving...
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January 2012
110 posts
Femme Mentorship Program
femmesandfamily:
This is a call for femmes on tumblr who are willing to serve as a mentor/guide/friend to younger/newly out/or isolated femmes.
I am looking for folks who are willing to be available for questions and conversation.
I would like this group of mentors to represent the vast array of femme identities and intersections. Trans* femmes, femmes of color, fat femmes, femmes with...
joiekenn:
I feel like I have a body built for pouncing, and massive paws, and I am pacing.
“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family...”
– President Obama speaking in Michigan today about his plans to make college more affordable (via barackobama)
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“During the curriculum audit period, no observable evidence was present to...”
– the independent audit of TUSD’s Mexican American Studies program, ignored by the state superintendent who ordered it
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
besttumblr:
“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