November 2011
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“Some activists are interested in Community Accountability processes primarily as...”
– Connie Burke, Think. Re-think: Accountable Communities. From The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities (2011), ed. by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
*APPLAUSE*
*MORE APPLAUSE*
(via quixotess)
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TRANScending Exclusion [A Teach-In on Trans...
peace everyone:
been working with a lively collective known as RIVERS RESPONSE to deconstruct and discuss ways of resisting transphobia and even more specifically, transmisogyny in political, cultural and artistic spaces. join discussions involving SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT, KITCHEN TABLE GIVING CIRCLE and QUEERS FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE as well as many mindful community members like yourself!
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“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is...”
– Audre Lorde (via queerfatfemme)
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“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night...”
– NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
Totally agree with this. Meyer doesn’t actually depict the sex scene itself, and can you imagine if she had? “Edward’s hands on my throat almost choked out my breath,” “his grip on my wrists almost made me cry as I looked...
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Watch
TONIGHT:
y’all in NYC/NJ support my comrades and homies at Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan!
also, may i also say that fam’s kim & leah’s lovely dovey queer faces (35”-40”) in this video totally made me shed a tear just a bit? just. a. bit.
additionally, i was supposed to perform at this but my travel doesn’t get me in on time. HOWEVER,...
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“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”
– Louise Glück, from “Unpainted Door” (via leopoldgursky)
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Fat People of Color: Four Basic Principles That... →
fatpeopleofcolor:
I requested to post the following in this space to maintain anonymity and I’d like to thank the mods of this space for allowing me to do so. I also want to acknowledge that this is a first draft and that changes may be made. I would also like to thank those who helped me edit this piece and…
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readin & fightin: I have never experienced a... →
#exactly #thankyou
readnfight:
liquornspice:
Oh. Let’s try:
prisons/private prisons/prison labor
immigrant detention centers
juvenile detention centers
slavery/slave trade
the entire placement of the US-Mexico border
Patriot Act
segregated schools/the continued extralegal segregation of schools
sterilization…
Please don't say "universal" when you really mean...
kiriamaya:
Okay? Okay.
(on the megabus from chicago to minneapolis.)...
Thank you Chicago for your food, kindness, honesty, home. I’m now on the bus as the speakers play: The Platters, Temptations, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Otis Reading, Al Green, etc. People on the bus all chiming in, ‘now, this is real music.’
#chicagomoment #chicagoistillloveyou #traveling
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“Here’s what you need to realise about anti-racism: It’s not about you. It’s not...”
– VELOCICRAFTOR (via sapphrikah)
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[support re-frame: a gathering!] CALL FOR ARTISTS
see: http://reframeagathering.blogspot.com/p/call-for-artists.html
For more information about the project and how to support this free creative workshop please visit our website at reframeagathering.blogspot.com. It is pertinent for both my collaborator, Baraka de Soleil and myself to provide opportunities to artists where they can have a space to develop, share thoughts, create community and...
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[on veteran's day] morning pages.
i think about my father who was a white poor red headed and later blonde-headed michigan rural person who never got passed the 6th grade. i think about how he was racist and loving. terrible and passionate. i think about the glorious lady slipper photography in his dark room and his knees almost wrapped in wild blueberries and toad hopping bogs. i think about how he served his country as any poor...
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[dear chicago: i love you. i love you real good....
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["We are ready for change. Let us link hands and...
always.
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“Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger.
Only to someone...”
– ~ Hafiz (via worldoflildots)
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i'm in this!-- [gender-non conforming POC/nigerian...
Against the Grain Sunday Nov 6 at 3pm Truth to Power short films program (80 mins)
Against the Grain - OluSeyi & Betty Yu / 6 mins
follows the story of Seyi, a cultural organizer, artist, healer, Nigerian and Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate whose spirit is transcending gender. The film traces their journey including hormone replacement therapy - testosterone - and the path of...
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["Dumb" Things White People Say: Race affects... →
“RACE AFFECTS QUEERNESS ALWAYS..”
crankyskirt:
HELL YES to all of this.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
So once upon a time, I knew a fair few white trans people. I does not talk to them anymore. White people don’t realize how race affects queerness. It doesn’t just affect one’s money, and one’s ability to receive a doctor that will actually help them (seriously white trans people, if...
