November 2010
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“You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky,...”
– —-Sandra Cisneros (via suzywire)
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[ "war is what happens when language fails.”]
—-margaret atwood.
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[someone's poem made me cry, reach for air, mourn....
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[on your bornday, november 22, 1944]
today is a balance of memory, sunlight & heavy. cecilia ulanday barrett / my ma would have been 64 today,on her bornday. hope you are filled w/ power, loving ancestors, & no need to lift another finger unless youwant to. ♥
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[Remembering OUR Dead (2008)] trans day of... →
on-point, adept, and many thanks to you bro.
thacatalyst-ali:
I wrote this 2 years ago for The National Black Justice Coalition where it was originally published.
November 20, 2008 marks the 10th anniversary of Rita Hester’s murder, a Boston transgender woman whose brutal murder is still unsolved as many crimes against gay, lesbian, transgender and…
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[a presumable cis dude was queerphobic, approached...
ARE YOU SERIOUS?!@#?!?!!! wtf.
he continued to say other problematic things and step in my face. it was too close and i feel like i avoided a fight just then. i feel like i am happy i am safe and that i have my whole physical person.
i was just caught off-guard. it was in public, in daylight, in west village.. WEST VILLAGE people. it was disgusting. i told him to step off & go on with his...
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[the guest house] poem / currently
by rumi This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the...
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Watchnaijaboi holds it down w/ this. thanks for sharing homey. ON-POINT!
naijaboi:
Rafaela by Julie-Ann ‘Julz’ Ignacio http://vimeo.com/11902232
This video is from the QTAP project: GenderFierce and Queerly FOBulous. It is an on-going project dedicated to promoting the visibility, voice and empowerment of Queer and Trans Asians and Pacific Islanders (QTAPIs) locally and internationally....
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["i just don't have the time to assimilate into...
—-miss major (on marriage & mainstream gay concerns. her talk at ALP, QEJ, FIERCE, & SRLP / 11, november 2010]
Miss Major is a black, formerly incarcerated, male-to-female transgender elder. She has been an activist and advocate in her community for over forty years, mentoring and empowering many of today’s transgender leaders to stand tall, step into their own power, and...
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["Veterans day. That's also my father, who often...
—-Bao Phi’s current facebook status.
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["i’m a pack rat of sorts myself. of emotions. not...
—-olive snook, pushing daisies.
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Watchtoday 6pm-8pm: NYU’s Reel Queer Film Series presents Reina de mi Misma, Queen of Myself: Las Krudas d’ Cuba a documentary by Celiany Rivera-Velázquez … Join us for the screening a documentary film exploring the feminist work of Las Krudas, an all-women hip hop trio from Cuba. The film narrates the impact that the queer group has had in the underground hip hop spheres of Cuba and the...
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“I am alone with rickety materials,
the rain falls on me, and it is like me,
it...”
– Pablo Neruda, Weak With The Dawn (via fuckyeahneruda)
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[when partners have a different food stance: chili...
me: i'm gonna make chili.
partner: oh yeah! yayyyyyyyy! i LOVE your chili!
me: it's gonna be vegetarian chili, though.
partner: oh, what the hell?! that's bullsh*t.
me: HAhahAhaHaHAHAHhAhaa!!
partner:
me: (still laughing, falls over).
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[today blessed undas / araw ng mga patay / todos...
[altar, montréal, quebec version / october 2010]
[ang aking mga paboritong tiyahin, mga paboritong tao kailanman, yolanda p. ulanday salvo & me, san fabian philippines / july 2006]
today is all about crying and rejoicing and photo albums telling stories and jokes and even if i am all by myself, in the loneliest of lonely, i have my ancestors and they have me. when all your blood...
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["Issues like marriage, DADT, and hate crimes...
—Rage, or The Lack Thereof | no more potlucks nomorepotlucks.org
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[in conversations re: racism, when a white person...
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[-insert white scholarly tim wise witty quote here...
today is a usual monday. someone of privilege feels the (sub)conscious need to prove or worse even, explain the world to me, as though i am not smart or not human enough to think for myself. as though my work and those communities around me, do not have firsthand and and longstanding experience of racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, poverty, etc.
don’t try to school me on my culture(s)...
