February 2011
69 posts
January 2011
116 posts
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“Lauren Ruffin, an attorney and consultant who coached youth teams in the DC...”
– Women’s College Basketball: Homophobia is polluting the recruiting trail - ESPN
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“I was born gay; I didn’t do one drill to get better at being gay. But the...”
– Sue Wicks, Women’s College Basketball: Homophobia is polluting the recruiting trail - ESPN
omfgggggg gay drills
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“Coaches aren’t worried about getting fired for being lesbian,” says...”
– Women’s College Basketball: Homophobia is polluting the recruiting trail - ESPN
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bow tight bros from way back when...
fuckyeahbutches:
raaad
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“Let your manners speak, your deeds prove and your delivery impress.”
– butch advice from my yogi tea
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Poet Publishes 10,000-Page Poem - GalleyCat →
to everyone on tumblr
transartorialism:
if you are not keeping up with what’s going on in egypt and other countries in the middle east, you are going to miss out on something that is going to change EVERYTHING.
i am just amazed at what’s going on.
it is giving me hope in activism again. which is saying a whole fucking lot.
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under butch, feminist,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #butch, #feminist, #queer
“Always read with a pen in hand. The pen should be used both to mark the text you...”
– Mandy Brown, “Ways of reading” (via austinkleon)
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How to use the word "transgender." ...
besttumblr:
wholesomeobsessive:
Fresh Feminism: Transgender Is An Adjective
feyboy:
Trust me on this. Transgender is an adjective. Transgender is not a noun.
You cannot make transgender a verb by adding ‘ing’. Transgendering is not a real word.
You cannot say that somebody ‘transgendered’. This is also not a real word.
Transgendered should not be used as an adjective. It’s incorrect and...
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Cole + Cate
dorightwoman:
If all sex, gender, and desire are the result of performed acts, there is no need to assume that a femme lesbian is any more “natural” a woman than a butch one simply because her publicly performed gender appears at first glance to fall more or less within the narrow patriarchal prescription for women.
A femme lesbian refuses to respond to the prescriptions of the culture on...
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Journal of Universal Rejection →
totally gonna submit to thisss
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“Take the first sentence of David Foster Wallace’s story, “The...”
– Adam Haslett on Stanley Fish’s How To Write a Sentence. - By Adam Haslett - Slate Magazine
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“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest...”
– Audre Lorde
To all the multiculturalists (in my life), read up.
(via bollywoodsuperstar)
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“Should this make any difference to rhetoricians? That is, should students of...”
– Sharon Crowley, “Neo-Romanticism and the History of Rhetoric” in Pre/Text: the first decade, 1993 — lol, and surprising choice of words for DC.
“When I look at the lives of the poets, I understand what’s wrong with me. They...”
– Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist (via newspaperblackout)
“You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret.”
– Philip Glass (via austinkleon)
“This is the way Barthian and Derridean post-structuralism’s helped me the most...”
– the tremendous David Foster Wallace, “An Interview with David Foster Wallace” with Larry McCaffery, p. 141
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“Part of the interest of shame is that it is an affect that delineates...”
– Eve Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity” p. 12
Transgender Student’s Request To Live In Dorm... →
transartorialism:
transpride:
A transgender student at a Texas junior college had her request to live on-campus denied — and has been restricted to only one bathroom on the campus.
Jennifer Gellar (right), a transgender second-year student at Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, is not having the college experience she hoped for. Gellar requested to live on-campus in the college’s...
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“Part of the interest of shame is that it is an affect that delineates...”
– Eve Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity” p. 12
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“Persons who self-identify as queer, by contrast, will be those whose...”
– Eve Sedgwick, “Queer Performativity” p. 4
“The word for you is butch. Remember this word. It will be used against you. The...”
– A butch roadmap by Ivan Coyote
“3. See How Long You Can Stay On The Internet: This is a high that feels similar...”
– Three New Drugs You Can Do (Without Doing Drugs) « Thought Catalog (via transartorialism)
amazing
“A smiley face does not make it okay: “I waterboarded my toddler LOL!”
– Cam on Modern Family
