February 2012
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Response: on "white" v. "POC"
bookishbutch:
start-anywhere replied to your post: What the fuck? If you’re white, you are not…
not trying to troll, but to prod: what, though, is white? e.g. would an italian american be welcome in such a discussion? irish? i am driving at: who adjudicates the criteria for “POC” here? (where?)
Replace “white” with “non-poc.” Maybe that makes it easier to understand.
To respond to your...
“Egad. Two psychologists from the University of Texas wrote a book entitled Why...”
– Doc and Intrepid’s Blog
love you, doc.
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collaboration (butch/femme) →
homosquad:
butch-desiring femmes are such a brilliant species of queer because they can both stake out a feminine gender territory for themselves and also stake a claim on the desirability of female masculinity, truly an ally’s work in subverting butch territory’s degradedness.
(click through for more/full context)
also, is this the “more later” ? from before (sept. 19,...
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start-anywhere now brings you: grrdis →
hi internet, i, start-anywhere have started a slightly formal-er academic blog called grrdis, featuring sophistry and butch feminism. i like some of you and would love if you followed and reblogged and argued with grrdis, too.
here’s a sample of my latest post, on Jack Halberstam’s campus visit and low theory:
grrdis:
A very striking moment in Halberstam’s job talk was her...
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sadness can tell us about our desire →
start-anywhere:
“And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside…”
Rainer Maria Rilke (via creativedreadhead)
adding something i meant to say about this
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joiekenn:
It is so blustery and the bluster made my chest feel so broad that I reflexively jetéd while traveling from my front door to my car.
Fact: If gay marriage becomes legal everywhere,...
i support this
“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via creativedreadhead)
dear saturday
i love you
“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
a finding place
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“In other words there must be some way to turn terror into Respect and dread into...”
– I don’t enjoy this war one bit
DFW in a letter to Don DeLillo, on learning to write
“Because men write these policies, they are careless of the physical dangers and...”
– Why Christians Hate Sex–Or Profess To « Doc and Intrepid’s Blog
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transartorialism:
This concern with aim or results, with differentiating and passing judgment on various thinkers is therefore an easier task than it might seem. For instead of getting involved with the real issue, this kind of activity is always away beyond it; instead of tarrying with it, and losing itself in it, this kind of knowing is forever grasping at something new; it remains...
Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids: Why Teaching... →
besttumblr:
ourcatastrophe:
“This overheated hostility toward public schools runs throughout the new literature on liberal homeschooling, and reveals what is so fundamentally illiberal about the trend: It is rooted in distrust of the public sphere, in class privilege, and in the dated presumption that children hail from two-parent families, in which at least one parent can afford (and wants)...
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler (via lonelytouristcharlottecharles)
for real
scholars who are FREAKED OUT about the internet
are in this category
plz stop talking about the future as if 1. it is signified by twitter in some universal way and 2. it isn’t already here
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if you're a trans guy and you think
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dearestandqueerest:
that cissexism is some monolithic entity that affects you personally when people are being transmisogynistic
that you don’t have male privilege
that you get to say tr***y in reference to yourself and will talk over trans women when they tell you why they think you shouldn’t
that someone doing drag is appropriative (because if it works like that then why the...
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trying to be gracious
when someone calls me “sir” or “man” and then reverses to “ma’am” is not working in some way for me
maybe i should start saying something like “i know it offends most people when you mistake them for the opposite sex, but that is not what just happened to me. you read my gender two different ways because of disparate gender markers. but maybe you...
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QueerBlackFeminist: First You Gotta Put Your Neck... →
queerblackfeminist:
I went to see Pariah on opening night in San Francisco last Wednesday. And I loved it, from the very beginning. In fact, it was the beginning that I really loved. From the first few minutes of the opening scene of a queer women’s dance club, fully equipped with scantily-clad go-go…
read the whole reflection. nice.
“Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.”
– (My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via eternallyinthetardis))
gonna steal this