December 2011
“So I decided to become a midwife… I wanted to deliver a thousand babies. And as...”
– Emma Goldman (via apwbirth)
GPOY at work
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GPOY teaching
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Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 →
queermiser:
quaintrellle:
queerfatfemme:
This is a great list. I would have picked many of the same folks.
starting off your top 25 list with angela davis? i like this list already.
though if part of your criteria is being a “female-identified or non-gender-binary person” then maybe calling it the “top 25 queer women” isn’t the best thing?
sure, referring to all these people as “women”...
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a morality tale for the holidays :P
So, I was frustrated
but then there was this gif and it was so perfect for how I was feeling that made me laugh and realize I wasn’t really that annoyed, just over-invested and projecting on my friend behaviors my little brother with the express purpose of bothering me
dear tumblr
patchworksquares:
some feminists hate men
and considering what men do to women on a systematic daily basis they have every right to
seriously, get over it
“IS/NOT
Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry...”
– Margaret Atwood (via poets-kick-ass)
“I find it astoundingly privileged when anti-s/m people talk about how, for...”
– Amanda Forest Vivian, “Hurt, Power, and Disability.”
The link goes to an excellent, excellent post about what BDSM can mean to people with disabilities.
(via neurodivergentsexuality)
This, so very much this. I’ve been trying to write a sensible response here, talking about how so very many levels...
Pariah Personals
josememxrane:
latinosexuality:
Salon.com partnered with New America Media to run a series of coming out stories by LGBT youth of Color and LGBT immigrant youth titled “Pariah Personals,” the series is inspired by Pariah the Movie.
Read the Pariah Personals .
Want to this movie!
be radical, love yourself: How to tell if "derp"... →
fromonesurvivortoanother:
When you look it up, do you get images making fun of people with downs, people in wheelchairs, and other disabled individuals?
Do lots of people with disabilities insist over and over again that it’s ableist?
If you answered yes to both, then guess what? It’s…
radioclubjp:
phuongynguyen:
stylesrelated:
...
“(this is long and painful but if you have the capacity, I suggest you read it)....”
– Little Boy Lost by Amy Leal
I’m a so-called “regressive autistic”. I lost language skills when I was a small child. I also experienced something rarer, in that I also lost a bunch of different skills including speech, gradually starting in early adolescence.
Thing is, I’m still here. I’m not...
300 years ago, William Lynch gave a speech on the...
Eating Disorder Recovery Tips: →
recoveryisbeautiful:
Take the focus off food
You will always be taken care of, there is enough food
Don’t read online diets or food journals
Visualize your ideal recovery
Journal each day about what is really going on
Take time to do a daily meditation to calm yourself
Spend time with people
Eat out with people
Try to be around people who have a healthy relationship with food and their...
Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the... →
the UC Berkeley study found that individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others. Overall, the results indicate that socio-economic status correlates with the level of empathy and compassion that people show in the face of emotionally charged situations.
FACT: All trans*-individuals are made up of...
“Queer people do not need to offer excuses or defend their own existence. If one...”
– » Fauxgress Watch: “Born This Way” Social Justice League (via a-bayani)
iamacollectionofmiscellanyandtea asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. Silly I know, but still, here it is. :)
Anonymous asked: If one naturally gets their period and aren't taking preventatives or anything for it, and the period goes on and on and on, is more than a once a month thing, is less than a once a month thing, it is a medical problem. I had mine every other month and then it just kept going on and on and on. I saw a doctor and found out I had ovarian cysts (from endimitriosis or however it's correctly...
“Well, of course you don’t know very much about cars. You’re a girl.”
– Guy I had a discussion with on the bus. I’m a trans guy who, not long later, was giving a cis male friend pointers on shopping for a good vehicle. Made me feel pigeonholed and frustrated. (via microaggressions)
When you tell your crush that you like them:
seriouslyamerica:
sageoflogic:
danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:
expectations
but this is their face in reality
http://thatfunnyblog.tumblr.com/
never telling anybody that i like them ever again.
YEEEEAAAHH I try to be really chill and nonchalant about it…I’m getting better at that. The last few rejections haven’t been that bad. Comparatively.
The last person I told I liked was...
HELLO FRIENDS!
hormonaltransrex:
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A GENDERQUEER BINGO CARD, BUT I AM NOT GENDERQUEER MYSELF, SO I WOULD LIKE GENDERQUEER FOLKS TO SEND IN SUGGESTIONS (VIA MY ASKBOX) FOR GENDERQUEER BINGO SQUARES; IF THEY ARE AGREEABLE TO THE IDEA.
ALSO TAKING SUGGESTIONS FOR A DINOSAUR TO REPRESENT GENDERQUEER PEOPLE!
YAY!! Send suggestions my lovely genderqueer friends.
Me: Callie, doya wanna come in from being outside?
Callie:
Me: Oh, there's a bunny. Okay. Resume.
You spell your bunny's name the same way I spell mine : D
“White queers, including white trans people, are at the LOWEST risk for pretty...”
– DTWPS (via zorascreation)
Truth! Fuck the ‘it gets better’ campaign!
(via kenzmirage)
Filing this under “things that may hurt for me to say but needs to be said.” it hit me when I was at a transgender day of remembrance event and hearing all the names of women in countries of color being read....
FLAGGING
gaydictionary:
Wearing a handkerchief/bandana on one’s person in order to discreetly express one’s sexual intrest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
So, last time I was at a gay club I had a scarf on my head that kept falling off and so then I just stuck it in my pocket, I later learned about flagging. It was deep aqua which I looked up and… uhm, yes.
“Disdain for “political correctness” is often positioned as a concern that some...”
– by Tami at whattamisaid.com (via femfreq)
More about intentional language use?
I also wanted to talk about the way that using a single word or phrase creates an entire image of what a person will look like and be like. An example of this is “a homeless man” which I hear a lot and people have all of these images that go together about what he will look, smell and be like without critically considering their complete humanity and the spectrum of people who could...
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About intentional language use in safe spaces?
This post contains examples of hurtful language use and therefore might be hurtful in itself. Take care of your needs.
Intentional language use is hard. It is hard because I’m shaped by my society which has an interest in having all of its members propagate its oppressions through language, action, and inaction. Intentional language use is hard because I am surrounded every day by people...
You don't have Celiac's, I take it...
annoyingbeasties:
Customer: “I’ll have one of your gluten-free muffins, please. You know, my wife and I started our gluten-free diet, and it has just changed everything. Everything is so much healthier, now, you know?”
Me: “Oh really? Are you guys celiacs?”
Customer: “Uhm, yes.”
Me: “Interesting. You know, less than 1% of the population are actually celiacs, so that’s quite rare.”
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