SurvivorWorld

June 2013

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Why Tumblr Is Perfect For The Trans Community → buzzfeed.com

Reina Gossett getting some well deserved love.

thespiritwas:

“If you don’t see yourself anywhere else online, come here.”

I got some tumblr love from Thomas Page McBee of Buzzfeed today alongside some brilliant other tumblr blogs like @brooklynboihood and @thetestshot! check out the piece here! 

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March 2013

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The Spirit Was...: On Untorelli's "new" book → thespiritwas.tumblr.com

STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES:
survival, revolt, and queer antagonist struggle

Untorelli Press presents a compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and…

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January 2013

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September 2012

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“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when it is right in front of them. It’s a shame we carry. The shame of wanting something good. The shame of feeling something good. The shame of not believing we deserve to stand in the same room in the same way as all those we admire. Big red As on our chests.

I never thought to myself growing up, be a lawyer. An astronaut. The President. A scientist. A doctor. An architect.

I didn’t even think, be a writer.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It’s difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

If I could go back, I’d coach myself. I’d be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I’d be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.” —

—Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (via velvetandbone)

easily one of my most favorite things i have read from a transformative book (for me). 

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August 2012

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“Anyone can attend yoga, kabbalah classes, church, lectures by the Dalai Lama, yada, yada, yada - but can you be present for your life, and live with the way you treat other people?” — Tori Amos, More - February 2005 (via torispokenword)

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July 2012

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“Gentrification is a replacement process. So it is where diversity is replaced by homogeneity, and this, I believe, undermines urbanity and changes the way we think because we have much less access to a wide variety of points of view. We are diminished by it. So literally, the range of our mind’s reach is much more limited because of gentrification.” —Sarah Schulman, author of The Gentrification of the Mind.  From the interview “An American Witness
Part 1: Gentrification, Trauma, & Sex” from 12th Street

This entire interview (linked) is such a powerful and informative read. And the book is highly suggested.

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Jul 19, 2012

you are drawing many lines and i am reading closely, between. 

Jul 18, 2012

“The Greek word for danger was peria, which translates into ‘an experience’.  What if we had the faith to see what we perceive as dangerous as simply an experience?  Instead of fearing the experience, we can try to have some faith in the experience.  We can have faith that what is happening or what we are experiencing is not harmful, but is apart of our natural and ever continuing evolving and development. “

http://www.mysticmamma.com/new-moon-in-cancer-july-18th-19th-2012/

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June 2012

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“Feminism should, by default, include trans women. I’d go so far as to say that, as trans women are many, many times more likely to be raped, killed or discriminated against on the basis of their gender than cis women are, we cis feminists should not just be including them but making them central in our activism. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. We’ve long known that feminism as a movement is overwhelmingly white, able-bodied and middle class. It is also overwhelmingly cissexual.” —Why Cis Attendees of Reclaim the Night are Letting Trans Women Down (via slutgrrrlinternational)

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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: Aishah Shahidah Simmons, NO! The Rape Documentary, and Healing in Denver, Colorado → afrolez.tumblr.com

afrolez:

Three days of events focusing on both eradicating gender-based violence and healing from gender-based violence, featuring Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her cultural work in Denver Colorado from June 7, 2012 - June 9, 2012.

On Thursday, June 7, 2012, ‘XicanIndie Thursday’ presents:

A…

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