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Interactions with Queer

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:48:59 -0700

Queer is such a complicated word. Its history is murky and its meaning has been redefined and turned on its head more than once. As a lurker in the ace community I saw several battles about whether aces counted as queer or not. I’ve discussed with a professor who identifies as queer my asexuality and gotten a thank you for the reminder that sometimes in the midst of fighting for the right be sexually attracted to anyone, people underestimate how hard it is to fight for the right to not be sexually attracted to anyone. Then he apologized. I didn’t really feel like he needed to apologize, but he did. Since starting this blog and paying more attention to tumblr specifically, I’ve have seen just how charged it is as a word to identify safe spaces. But to be honest, queer isn’t a word I have thought too much about. It is a word that perhaps I should be thinking more about.

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Is your paper on The Poisonwood Bible available to be read online? That's a favorite novel for me, and I'd love to read your paper.

Mon, 28 May 2012 11:39:14 -0700

I put a link to it on my page under PWB Paper :]

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Mon, 28 May 2012 07:54:24 -0700

fionafix-it: communistsextips: Never fuck a capitalist. They refuse condoms because they don’t...

Sun, 27 May 2012 15:56:18 -0700

fionafix-it:

communistsextips:

Never fuck a capitalist. They refuse condoms because they don’t like protection for the workers.

never go down on a capitalist, they’ll let you do all the work and then insist they came solely through their own hard work & self-determination.

One of the many reasons I love professors: they say ‘him or her’ when talking about who...

Sun, 27 May 2012 08:01:04 -0700

One of the many reasons I love professors: they say ‘him or her’ when talking about who you might potentially marry without knowing my sexuality.

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Sat, 26 May 2012 15:58:03 -0700

TranSquat - iPhone app is a gender neutral bathroom finder that locates bathrooms that are gender free relative to your current location.

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:19:29 -0700

TranSquat - iPhone app is a gender neutral bathroom finder that locates bathrooms that are gender free relative to your current location.:

fuckyeahfeminists:

From the source website:

Friends, and friends of iPhone. Hi, my name is Billy. I wrote an iPhone app called TranSquat. In a nutshell, it is a gender neutral bathroom finder that locates bathrooms that are gender free relative to your current location. You can search, add and share safe locations. It was written by and for the trans community. It is powered by data from safe2pee. You can help build the app by downloading and adding locations in your own communities.

On a personal note, I wanted to write an app for the trans community. It is also my fundraising goal to get 3000 downloads to help finance my surgery with Dr. Charles Garammone. So far, I only have 2956 to go. Every download helps.

Even better, if you would like to support this project you can donate to my top surgery fund at:

http://billyjack.chipin.com/dr-garramone . Any help appreciated.

Finally, if you could share this with others whom might find this app useful and would like to support this project that would be much appreciated too!!!

Download it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transquat/id521546602?mt=8

fuck yeah

whoneedsfeminism: I need feminism because my friends still post...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:18:22 -0700

whoneedsfeminism:

I need feminism because my friends still post demeaning statuses to their Facebook pages.

mypatronusisyou: there comes a moment in every girl’s life when she says to herself i read some...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:12:41 -0700

mypatronusisyou:

there comes a moment in every girl’s life when she says to herself

i read some fucking weird fanfiction

gpoy

Language Barriers in Brazil Business

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:34:49 -0700

Language Barriers in Brazil Business

"Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 23:16:19 -0700

“Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.”

- Judy Chicago (via feministhistorian)

5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:23 -0700

5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite

"When I want to know what misogyny is, I don’t ask a man. When I want to know what racism is, I don’t..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:03:57 -0700

“When I want to know what misogyny is, I don’t ask a man. When I want to know what racism is, I don’t ask a white person. When I want to know what homophobia is, I don’t ask a heterosexual. When I want to know what transphobia is, I don’t ask a cisgender person. When I want to know what ableism is, I don’t ask an able-bodied person. The contours and definitions of oppression are best articulated by the oppressed.”

- Son of Baldwin

(via newwavefeminism)

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Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:02:27 -0700

"I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 08:04:03 -0700

“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She replied that she was hoping to go to Zimbabwe, and felt that she could help women there by advising them how to organize. The Black women in the audience gasped in astonishment. Here was someone scarcely past girlhood, who had just started university and had never fought a war in her life. She was planning to go to Africa to teach female veterans of a liberation struggle how to organize! This is the kind of arrogant, if not absurd attitude we encounter repeatedly. It makes one think: Better the distant armchair anthropologists than these ‘sisters’.”

- African feminist Ifi Amadiume

(via newwavefeminism)

BLESSSSSSSSSSSS THIS QUOTE!!!!

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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:03:19 -0700

"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:18:11 -0700

“As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.”

- Tori Amos (via dr-clear-heels)

And if you’re not in touch with your feelings, well obviously you’re a stuck up bitch.

"Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:15:23 -0700

“Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.

And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world.”

- distractedbyshinyobjects

re: feministing - for women, heart attacks look different

Things I did not know, but should.

(via elfgrove)

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They put up some awesome billboards in austin a few months ago showing the signs of a heart attack that women will feel. And I know they were effective because I was in the car when mando saw the billboard and said “Man I had no idea women had different symptoms for heart attacks!”

Way to go city of mine :)

Even better? A woman having all the “classic” (read: male) symptoms of heart attack is more than twice as likely to be sent home from the ER than to be checked out, EKGed, and examined.

Because we’re just hormone-addled hysterics. :-(

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Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:02:08 -0700

holygoddamnshit: TENNESSEE: SENATE PASSES ‘RELIGIOUS...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:17:21 -0700

holygoddamnshit:

TENNESSEE: SENATE PASSES ‘RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINTS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT’

The Tennessee state senate hasunanimously passed a bill that outlaws preventing students from expressing religious beliefs in class. Critics say the bill is a transparent attempt to crowbar Christian indoctrination into public schools.

The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Kerry Roberts of Springfield was approved 29-0 on Wednesday. The companion bill is awaiting a vote on the House floor. Roberts says the proposal requires school districts to treat a student’s religious expression the same as they would a secular viewpoint. Students would also have access to school facilities to organize student prayer groups or other religious gatherings. Democratic Sen. Beverly Marrero of Memphis, who abstained from voting, questioned whether the bill is “trying to make schools similar to Sunday schools.”

RELATED: Last month the Tennessee senate approved a billthat will allow teachers to advocate for creationism and against climate change.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/