February 2012
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January 2012
1 post
“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 A’s on...
October 2011
5 posts
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: DSK AND JUSTICE:... →
afrolez:
DSK (Dominique Strauss Kahn) AND JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF GETTING OFF IN A RAPE CULTURE
CONNECT NYC and Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and their Center for Gender and Sexuality Law are hosting an Open Forum on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 at…
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: "Am I Troy Davis?... →
afrolez:
Sister/Comrade Stephanie Gilmore, who spoke at SlutWalk Philadelphia, is, to the best of my knowledge, one of the ONLY anti-racist White Feminists who has PUBLICLY SUPPORTED the IDEA/PREMISE of SlutWalk while PUBLICLY CHALLENGING its CURRENT RACIST REALITY.
With her FULL PERMISSION, I have…
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“…I do not dig debating with young white feminists late into the night about...”
– READ IN ITS ENTIRETY HERE
http://bit.ly/qRf9kK
(via afrolez)
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AfroLez®femcentric Perspectives: Woman is the "N"... →
afrolez:
In 1969, Yoko Ono coinded the term and I quote “Woman is the N****R of the World.” Shortly thereafter, she and her husband, the late John Lennon, wrote and he recorded a song with that same title.
According to Wikipedia (which is ALWAYS questionable), at that time (don’t know where…
Audacia Ray: SlutWalk NYC Speech →
audaciaray:
Here’s what I said this afternoon:
Like many people who lay claim to the word feminist, I am a white cisgender woman. I am also a sexual assault survivor, and I am a former sex worker, and so I want to complicate a few things for you.
I stand here with a great degree of ambivalence, because…
September 2011
5 posts
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FY Lesbian Literature!: Call for submissions for... →
welovezines:
Cis white lesbians do not own dyke or queer women’s culture. This is about rejecting transphobic pseudo-radical feminist discourse. Let’s imagine what a truly radical inclusive queer dyke culture could look like. Submissions can take any form. Rants, raves, poems, personal…
“(TW: rape) If the occurrence of rape were audible, its decibel level equal to...”
– Patricia Weaver Francisco (via sexismandthecity)
An interesting analogy.
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I think this is really beautiful
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August 2011
4 posts
BAD MANTALITY: VISUALS →
amanaday:
I was using this thing we in the biz call a “shotgun” at work the other day while i was partnered with this guy who wears like wrap around tinted safety glasses with that weird safety cord dangling from the back. I don’t particularly love this guy I’m working with for a few reasons, one being that…
“Just this past Thursday, I heard a fellow college professor say that she tells...”
– Quoted from Sister/Comrade/Friend Stephanie Gilmore’s speech at SlutWalk Philadelphia.
You can read her fiercely beautiful words in their entirety: http://afrolez.tumblr.com/post/8575563959/stephanie-gilmores-powerful-speech-at-slutwalk
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“There’s an ongoing war against women and Trans people; we are definitely on the...”
– Aishah Shahidah Simmons on SlutWalk Philadelphia on WHYY-FM Radio Times interview with host Marty Moss-Coane
If you missed the program with co-guest Rebecca Traister, you can listen to it:http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/04/slut-walk-feminists-fight-back-against-rape/
(Thank You, Valerie...
“So really, is the penalty RAPE? We really should interrogate that. Even if you...”
– Aishah Shahidah Simmons on SlutWalk Philadelphia on WHYY-FM Radio Times interview with host Marty Moss-Coane
If you missed the program with co-guest Rebecca Traister, you can listen to it:http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/04/slut-walk-feminists-fight-back-against-rape/
(Thank You, Valerie...
July 2011
4 posts
“Dear Susan,
I, also, left her.
I left her on the floor in my own house.
Cooperative girls, they stay where we leave them.
She sits there still on debris colored carpet in her pretty dress.
Her face, turned toward the window, sees nothing.
We abandon ourselves. Name this survival.
And the planet litters with women abandoned women.”
-Frances Driscoll, “Dear Susan”
GSM? Gender and Sexuality Minority...
food for thought:
Rule #1. Anyone can be queer.
Yup. You heard me. Anyone. Straight, white, cis-gender, non-disabled, monogamous, vanilla, rich, stereotypically fit and attractive frat boys can be queer. Stop freaking. Read on to rule #2
Rule #2 Being queer is political, behavioral, as well as community based.
I will consider you queer if you a) support queer politics through words and...
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via feminismistheshit)
June 2011
10 posts
“I recognize that there aren’t any clear-cut lines in the struggle to eradicate...”
– —Aishah Shahidah Simmons. (via theredtree)
“They’re squares — what can I say? They’ve always been around. Square...”
– http://www.sfbg.com/2011/06/21/bright?page=0,0
maybe i would attend that dyke march benefit if a physically and verbally abusive, rage-a-holic dyke wasn’t performing at it. it’s one of those times where i could use The Revolution Starts at Home. and so could she.
tiny children, it's all your fault too. →
“Parents have been advised not to dress their schoolchildren in short skirts and tight trousers amid fears they could be targeted by paedophiles.”
un. fucking. real. but you know what is real? RAPE CULTURE.
May 2011
12 posts
“A few years ago, someone from the Feminist Majority Foundation called the Muslim...”
– Laila Al-Marayati & Semeen Issa, Muslim Women’s League USA An Identity Reduced to a Burka (via almaswithinalmas)
Born Again →
“Praying that I will return to the faith is almost a denial, a refusal to see who I am”- Marky Hancock, Born Again
It is no secret that my mother is born again. Which is near impossible for me to break through with any real impact. The last 9 minutes of this documentary are particularly painful but the most realistic depiction of what I have experienced with my mom and conversations I...
BAD MANTALITY: MANCAVE →
my friend zari has a new blog and it is the funniest thing i have read in about 41 months. please read AND follow.
amanaday:
Today at work, my coworker who keeps telling me “you need to learn how to laugh” was telling me about his ‘mancave’ that he built in his house. I stopped paying attention halfway through his story (the guy talks like he has 14 marbles in his mouth), but what I gathered...
Lesbian Mom Discount Prompts Threats →
projectqueer:
A Brooklyn shop owner who has been offering a 10% discount to lesbian moms at her maternity store says she has been receiving threatening calls since the sale was promoted on the website Brokelyn.com.
Karen Paperno, who is not gay, says callers have talked to her about everything from sexism to the sanctity of marriage.
Paperno says she is now afraid to be alone at her...
April 2011
20 posts
I Didn’t Watch the Royal Wedding, But It Still... →
Question #3
In his book About Writing, Samuel Delany suggests that many writers (himself included) “no longer see experimental writing as a way to deal with [crisis] aesthetically” (226). Does this sentiment ring true for you as well?
A healing crisis? A crisis in immigration policy? The crisis of the state? The crisis of social services and mental health care for immigrants? Those are the...
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