February 2012
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Fairly regularly, I drink a cup of coffee after work, then snooze while listening to something really interesting to me. My mind wanders to wonderful places while I’m half asleep and the caffeine enhances it in a way I don’t understand. Every time, I think of the line A CUP OF COFFEE BEFORE BED SO I DREAM FAST by Foxy Shazam.
Yesterday I listened to Pete Rollins and some other guy...
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Give me eyes to see more of who you are
May what I behold still my anxious heart
Take what I have known and break it all apart
This is one of the reasons I like my church.
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Majority-minority
saravee:
I have many ideas about how my school could improve the program I’m working in for next year. Nobody has asked me for feedback yet, but I think that if they truly want to serve their at-risk youth, who are mostly racial and ethnic minorities, then our school needs to seriously focus on the contributions minority writers have made to society. I’ve noticed that many of my students have...
Green Tip of the Day Will Help Homeless Animals
saravee:
firepaw:
Don’t toss out your old sheets & towels where they’ll end up in a landfill – instead, donate them to your local animal shelter.
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emaonline
Blankets, too! My cousin runs an animal shelter and they put blankets in the kennels for the dogs to sleep on. County-run animal shelters are hurt by funding cuts just like human service agencies are, so any donations they can...
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ezrafurman:
A couple years back I took a bunch...
littleelk:
“Time heals all wounds”
That’s some bullshit.
But whatever the answer is, I haven’t figured it out yet.
Space helps. I’ve nothing festering.
SPACETIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS
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You should call me sometime. I won’t answer, but at least I’ll know you care.
Won't Lovers Revolt Now?: i was thinking today. →
wontloversrevoltnow:
this’ll be sorta rambly, but earlier i went to the dentist where my mom works to get some stuff done. i was smoking my electronic cigarette in the lobby, and my mom told me i wasn’t allowed. at some point she kind of jokingly told me that SOMEDAY i’ll have to follow society’s rule.
a lot of…
If you’ve found truth of God by disobeying conservativism,...
I got really drunk and called Dez back. I don’t remember anything I said except that we talked about Cjristianity, gender, and patriarchy because that’s all I ever talk about. I’m proud of myself for making it from my third floor apartment to the street. I’m a bad bad man, I see your face in the moon. I’m trying to read every episode of original plumbing before 9....
Little Elk: Public service announcement about... →
littleelk:
HEY FOLKS.
If anybody is following me thinking I’m FTM, I’m not. Surprise! If anybody is following me thinking I’m a big fan of stereotypical masculinity, I’m not.
I’m a cissexed female with a non-binary gender identity who is on testosterone and saving up for chest surgery. I do associate…
GOOD. I still take your gender philosophies too personally.
What does being...
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Every part of you that they hate and fear gives me delight.
You Know You're Trans* When: #1679 No relationship...
hirotohk:
youknowyouretrans:
Credit to: http://gyne.tumblr.com (Gyne)
WOW. THIS IS INCREDIBLY OFFENSIVE TO ANY/ALL HETEROSEXUAL IDENTIFIED TRANS* PEOPLE. This can’t be serious… Is this serious? Do people seriously think this is okay to say? Well, it isn’t.
UH. I THINK THIS PERSON IS SPEAKING FOR THEMSELF AND FALLS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE. Let’s try harder to not silence...
ezrafurman:
iamtheproblem:
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh, I keep forgetting to say: music has been (often) mildly to extremely strange for me since I realized that almost every song can be filed under Men Who Will Not Take ‘No’ For An Answer.
I have trouble independently coming up with topics for blog posts but this little note really caught my eye. I’m putting my iTunes on shuffle as I write...
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The best part of being here is leaving.
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For instance, Clare Howell recently told me, “I know I sound like a man.” This kind of displacement repositions her voice as coming from somewhere else. This is like the cross-dresser who declares, “I like wearing women’s clothes.” It’s safe to say that no cross-dresser ever wore “women’s clothes.” If the bill came to him, they’re his...
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A voice that originated from one set of margins begins to create its own marginalized voices.
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Some feminist theorists have questioned the queerness and radicalness of any sort of gender that doesn’t do just that: leave norms behind. They consider transexuals, butch/femmes, and drag queens as not only not genderqueer but actually gender-conforming, because they partake of binary stereotypes. For them, the only “radical” choice is adopting more androgynous genders that fall...
Define a man.
Define male.
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Having any gender at all is really a sort of accomplishment, a sustained effort.
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neither a Streisand drag queen doing “Barbra” nor Barbra herself doing “woman” is any more or less real. There is no real gender to which they might be compared. Both use common symbols to achieve a visual meaning. The drag queen appears “false” because we don’t grant her access to those symbols.
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As an experiment, I recently asked a large group of very hip queer youths to list on a blackboard all the attributes that made up a “real man” and “real woman.” Interestingly, on the list beneath “real man” was “has a penis;” the list beneath “real woman” included “doesn’t have a penis.” Not one person in the entire...
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But like any language, gender’s primary effect is not repressive but productive: It produces meanings. These are created through a vast and visible top-down structure: binary birth certificates, restrooms, adoption policies, immigration laws, passports, and marriage laws. But they are also produced and maintained from the bottom up, through thousands of small everyday acts—interactions that...