January 2012
110 posts
“and it was intolerable, when it came to that scene in the little garden by the...”
– mrs. d
transartorialism: i am just a rodeo calf with... →
transartorialism:
i’ve been thinking about the young man who killed himself in my hometown recently, and what i would want the most to happen is for my family to do something about it, to come out about me being queer and/or trans, to look me in the eye and face the world with me rather than hiding me in plain sight. it’s ridiculous, i think, because i feel like it’s this big open secret;...
joiekenn:
I feel like a plank of cheap, bone-dry pinewood, inexorably splitting. I creak. The ancient and noseless limestone face of a now-nameless Egyptian priest, being slowly eaten by a droning, wheezing desert. Time that doth munch.
December 2011
95 posts
1 tag
genderqueer:
“What we are wearing is political and has really high stakes! The conditions of production of the actual materials we wear are life and death, and the consequences we all face for how we use clothing, grooming and style to craft our appearances are life and death. I’m thinking about racist laws that have attempted to ban sagging pants in some jurisdictions or use certain colors of...
mrsexsmith:
““Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.””
—Jeanette Winterson, All About My Mother (via @sexgeekAZ)
writers frame their world
“At issue, then, is not nature or nurture but how nurture becomes nature: the...”
– Does Stripping Gender From Toys Really Make Sense? - NYTimes.com
“It was a romance. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal...”
– The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (via aequinoctium)
2 tags
queerhappy:
“The ‘reality’ of heterosexual identities is performatively constituted through an imitation that sets itself up as the origin and the ground of all imitations. In other words, heterosexuality is always in the process of imitating and approximating its own phantasmatic idealization of itself—and failing. Precisely because it is bound to fail, and yet endeavors to succeed, the project...
2 tags
“I loathe” LOVE “Judith Butler’s writing style.”
queerhappy:
Complex and complicated sentence structures and syntax. Quite inaccessible. Sometimes I sense that she’s purposefully trying to be hard to understand. If there’s more than 4 comas (excluding lists) in your sentence, you need to rewrite that shit.
i resemble that remark!
complex and complicated...
“Community is therefore “not the space of the egos—subjects and substances that...”
– Diane Davis (via coffeeandablunt)
Family ties: Here's to the queers who raised me...
findyourspine:
Gay people saved me.
…
They took me into their community when I needed friends and love the most—as is, no questions asked, no to-do list of improvements demanded.
Now that’s Christ-like love, friends.
Via rookie.
FACT: When any queer person takes a picture with a...
still gettin’ red-eye…
1 tag
Louis vs. Rick: The Story of a Man Who Taught His... →
attn: transartorialism
louisvsrick:
————: 1:45 PM LouisTheCat: rick LouisTheCat: rick LouisTheCat: rick LouisTheCat: rick ————: 2:22 PM LouisTheCat: rick RickDickens77: Sorry Lou I was away. It’s chaos over here, so what do you need?
…
FACT: 1% of gays use 99% of the glitter. #Occupy...
Alison Bechdel's Graphic Novel 'Fun Home' to... →
hellagay:
!!!!!
“When I was first starting out people always said, ‘Write what you know.’...”
– Maureen McHugh (via austinkleon)
yep
3 tags
Teaching gender in the first grade: one teacher's... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
Gender Training Starts Early
Gender is not a subject that I would have broached in primary grades a few years ago. In fact, I remember scoffing with colleagues when we heard about a young kindergarten teacher who taught gender-related curriculum. We thought her lessons were a waste of instructional time and laughed at her “girl and boy” lessons.
My own thoughts...
“Many of the issues that plague the mixed race identity have to do with feelings...”
– The article. (via jadedfucker)
Half of things, and never “really” anything…
(via notyourkinddear)
“hope lies in the fact that the appropriation of what is inscribed (the said)...”
– diane davis (via coffeeandablunt)
1 tag
“I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don’t think of...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via anarchyisorder)
jeanette winterson why do you say everything i feel
is it because you felt it too or because your writing gives me access to the feeling
Infinite Jest Visualization →
joestracci:
If you’re a David Foster Wallace/Infinite Jest fan, you absolutely must check this out. I’ll let the creator, Chris Pudney, explain: It’s essentially a scatter plot in which each scene is represented by a dot. The scenes are arranged along the x-axis in the order they occur in the book, and are chronologically positioned along the y-axis. So cool. The bigger the monitor, the more...
“Nine. There’ve been nine men there for a long time, right? So why not nine...”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when asked how many women on the Supreme Court would be enough (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg? More like Ruth BADASS Ginsburg.
(via stfusexists)
2 tags
transartorialism asked: are we writing the same paper
1 tag
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transartorialism:
the classic putdown: the butch number swaggering into a bar in a leather get-up opens his mouth and sounds like a pansy, takes you home, where the first thing you notice is the complete works of Jane Austen, gets you into bed, and—well, you know the rest (208)
actually, bersani, this sounds like the BEST NIGHT in my book
i was *just* reading this passage in “is the...
“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about...”
– Sarah Waters, on being disciplined (via girlwiththebooktattoo)
i want this life
night between day 14 and 15
transartorialism:
faketupdates:
try to write paper that construes transgender studies as an exciting and intellectually rigorous field
instead say things like “the gender binary is fake!!!1” and “hormone levels change over time!!!111!”
(aka realize that talking about trans studies to a bunch of cis folks in ten minutes is fucking impossible)
every day
suggestion for writers: for every...
fuck you eustachian tube i need you to work for at...
transartorialism:
also fuck you theorists who drop “gay and lesbian” uncomplicatedly in order to represent non-normative sexualities
this summarizes my time in graduate school so far