December 2011
27 posts
“What we are wearing is political and has really high stakes! The conditions of...”
– - Dean Spade in an interview with Queer Couture (via besttumblr)
relevant to me as a trans person, as a participant in (a) subculture, and as a budding seamstress set on making my own style.
“How should there be Black poets in America?
It was not natural. And she was the...”
– June Jordan, “The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley” February, 1985 (via negrosunshine)
“Private Manning has endured horrendous treatment in prison waiting for trial. ...”
– Emily Manuel, Why does the media still refer to “Bradley” Manning? The Curious Silence Around A Transgender Hero (Global Comment)
If you really want to show support for a trans woman, you can start by gendering her properly.
(via kiriamaya)
Support Christian Porn, Let's Purify Porn →
sexismandthecity:
All filmed sexual acts in the Christian Porn genre are genuine intentions to create life, performed by heterosexual married Christian couples.
i bet there’s a ton of people who have a fetish for impregnating who’d get a real kick out of this.
A Note About Cissexism...
indigofer:
manybothans:
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism, specifically towards trans women and other MTF spectrum folks.
1) Gay sex does not require genital symmetry.
Most people in the community realize...
hey gadje (and walking people who deal with...
mesotheliomata:
you should all read this: http://reocities.com/Paris/5121/mythandreality.htm
the "spoon theory" →
blackbutshining:
mothreindeer:
for those of you who wonder what it means when i say “i [dont] have the spoons for something” right now or someone else etc. here is an explanation of the spoon theory
It’s hard not to appropriate the “I don’t have the spoons for it” phrase, as a healthy person. It’s a damn good metaphor.
spoon theory is great.
but as a mostly healthy person, it is...
[tw: cissexism/trans* erasure] Seriously:
jazzagefaerie:
Some trans* people are stealth.
And that’s okay.
Some trans* people are open about the fact that they’re trans*.
And that’s okay.
Some trans* people are closeted, or are only out to a handful of people whom they really trust.
And that’s okay.
Some trans* people will never come out to their parents.
And that’s okay.
Some trans* people do not, or cannot, dress as their...
In Regard to the State of My Gender: Believing the... →
tybaar:
I remember when I didn’t feel free.
I remember what it was like to distrust every emotion. To take everything that was good, every honest thought I felt and turn it around, corrupting it, using it as a tool to hurt myself because I didn’t “deserve” to experience anything good.
I can acutely…
What if they said Jew?
raindrop-prelude:
Jewify.org
Racism of many kinds, including anti-Semitism, is alive and well. However, in the U.K., you generally won’t find official institutions, mainstream politicians, or newspapers openly espousing blatantly racist sentiments — unless it’s racism against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma people: this is still a socially acceptable form of racism. This site allows you to look at...
Anne McCaffrey obituary: Fantasy fiction writer... →
loveandzombies:
I am posting this a bit late…but I just needed something about her on here. Dragonriders helped shape me as both a reader & a writer & as a woman in the fantasy genre. I am deeply indebted to McCaffrey. RIP.
Didn’t know until now. :(
She was an excellent writer.
“In order to understand why transphobia and cissexism persist and are continually...”
– Ida Hammer, in an interview with Bitch Magazine (via mikroblogolas)
November 2011
47 posts
Discusión de la Ley de Identidad de Género en... →
genderqueer:
translatinxs:
En el link puede verse la sesión de la Cámara de Diputadxs que está dándose en este mismo momento.
Right now, Argentina’s Congress is discussing a groundbreaking gender identity law which would allow trans people to change their gender marker & name without any sort of medical/psychological permission and without needing body modifications. Also, if it passes,...
Gadje
stfugadje:
A few people have reacted to this blog in ways which make me feel like I should clarify what the word “gadje” means, what it means to me, and the context in which I use it.
Strictly speaking, “gadje” means someone who is non-Rroma, and not one of the Walking People in general - an outsider. There are Rroma languages which feature the word gadje in specifically this capacity - many...