March 2012
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“Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon’s eyelid
...”
– Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich
2007
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“We made friends and enemies online, we prepared cribs for tests online, we...”
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Piotr Czerski
We, the Web Kids.
(translated by Marta Szreder)
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“It’s OK by me if a homeless person spends my money on drink or drugs. When I was...”
– Mark Johnson, “Why it’s OK to give to homeless drug addicts”, The Guardian (via ourcatastrophe)
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Language, Power, Privilege and Discourse: Why... →
Link to article via Oscar; posted here because as a reminder to myself to read in full later (aka when I’m not guiltily procrastinating from making an appearance at the dreaded “pub” for a friend’s birthday; also when I’m feeling less ground down and brainfuzzed-out by academic discourse).
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“It’s not right to hate anyone in the world. So how can you possibly let yourself...”
– My mum. She is wise and stuff. (via sunili)
very wise
because my life is perfect and I have no reason to be anything other than exceptional but I’m not and I’m pissed off at myself for it?
(via the-metres-gained)
Naww, nobody’s life is perfect and being “exceptional” can either...
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My gender, my choice.
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Roller derby name ideas:
Judith Halberslam
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“Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too...”
– Zooey Deschanel (via slothgrrl)
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“Tracing a causal link between Ravi’s homophobic actions and Tyler Clementi’s...”
– Mary L. Gray, A Message to the “First Responders” in Queer Kids’ Lives: Why We Need to Ditch the Politics of Blame, Stop Talking About “Cyberbullying,” and Move Toward Sharing Responsibility for the Loss of Tyler Clementi
raspberryfeministbarbie asked: click on 'reblog as...' then 'text' and tumblr won't cut off blocks of text!
NO MORE LITTLE WHITE GLOVES: ~*GRIPIN'*~ →
senoritaprincesa:
i would like to say something about how snobby we all are, pretty much.
there is a john waters quote… and i think he probably says it at all his stand-up gigs and that is ‘If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!’
i’m beginning to…
Me too, h8 that quote, it’s harsh and closed. Not sure how tumblr works anymore, cutting up...
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NO MORE LITTLE WHITE GLOVES: Virtual Mourning: A... →
videodrag:
When Mark died— or when it really sunk in and I truly believed that Mark had died— the first thought I had was that it threw my theory about queer virtuality right out the window.
Mark was a caustic and alluring presence on Tumblr. Tumblr is a blog platform…
..: vile-insect: I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW... →
vile-insect:
I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M GETTING BETTER, LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE. I’M…
more tomorrow
markaguhar:
These are the axes:
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Bodies are inherently valid
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Remember death
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Be ugly
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Know beauty
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It is complicated
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Empathy
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Choice
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Reconstruct, reify
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Respect, negotiate
“I think I’ve all but given up on trying to organize around something so annoying...”
– CALLOUTQUEEN (via sixtyforty)
I’ve posted this before, I’ll post it again. Mark informed my politics just as much as any poet or theorist or queer or queen. I was just telling someone they were one of the few things that kept me on tumblr. I’m heartbroken in a way that I can’t process yet.
(via...
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hey tumblr I'm still terrified of you.
bai!
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