December 2009
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Rage colors me as it presses through the pores of my skin, soaking in until it...
– Susan Stryker
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[A]nything that undermines confidence in the scheme of classification on which...
– Murray S. Davis, Smut (as quoted in Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaws)
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I don’t know for sure if anyone hit anyone. We don’t have much in the way of...
– http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard) (via fyeahsocialism) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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stuff what boys can do - fugitivus →
a list of good stuff bystanders have done to prevent assaults against women.
got me to thinking about men as defenders of women, and what the optimal balance is. i think it’s this: men should not “protect” women because they are “the weaker sex”; men should step in, however, when other men’s male privilege is otherwise going unchecked.
so, it’s a matter...
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hilarity, brought to you by bad people who call...
cast members: my brother noah (not bad), my dad jonathan (bad), his girlfriend deborah (bad), me (not bad).
noah: i hate politicians in general, but my sister mel wants to become a politician, so i guess they’re not all full of shit.
deborah: well, mel’s full of shit, so.*
noah: we’re out to breakfast, and i’m trying to be civilized. but say one more thing about my...
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why haven’t i ever thought about the fact that being at home is like one, long triggering of the past?
a tranny's christmas with the family (part 2)
xxboy:
well, the first gift i opened was a men’s waistcoat and button down from my aunt, uncle, and cousins. it wasn’t even on my list. it made me so happy. my grandma got me men’s clothing, as well, but made a point to tell me she didn’t like it.
overall, christmas has been great. I got dressed up and went out to our annual chinese dinner on christmas eve. I finally got to “dress up” in a...
note to self: being self-righteous all the time is tiring.
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I think it’s important to destroy “big” notions like woman, homosexual…. Things...
– “Becoming-Woman,” Félix Guattari (via beetx)
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if those in charge of our society — politicians, corporate executives, and...
– howard zinn, declarations of independence: cross-examining american ideology (1991) (via nosex)
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here’s how it was, well, my parents used to fight in the foor-door sedan, yeah, and in the tiny kitchen with the white-and-black checked linoleum floor, with the cracks that caught dirt and you could sweep it and mop it and wipe it and good lord those cracks would never come clean;
oh, well, where was i? yeah. my parents used to fight. a lot. and my mom would cry, and yell, and i...
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// today i just want to be a pretty, femme-y boy.
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What grief displays… is that thrall in which our relations with others hold us,...
– Judith Butler, Precarious Life (via wordsandsteel)