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YAYYYY done with my last essay of the year. :D now to start on...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:37:00 -0400

YAYYYY done with my last essay of the year. :D

now to start on all of the packing.

cosmo tip #656

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:34:31 -0400

expertcosmotips:

need money fast? Sell him to Yahoo!

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:24:28 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 09:36:09 -0400

It is Not Transphobic to Treat Trans Men as Men

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:48:09 -0400

gcvsa:

ericaorion:

tobitastic:

I have recently been hearing about multiple instances of trans men and occasionally others condemning certain women’s spaces — spaces that include and are co-organized by trans women — as transphobic and even campaigning against them because they don’t include trans men. What the fuck, guys?

It seems like most women’s spaces are falling into two categories these days. They are either conservative anti-trans spaces that actively exclude all trans people, or they are progressive trans-positive spaces that decide that the most progressive thing they could do would be to dismantle themselves as women-only and become gender neutral. With either option, trans women are denied access to women only space. Now it appears the few women-only spaces that are actively *inclusive* of trans women are facing pressure to become gender neutral.

As a trans woman raised in feminist community, I know the value that women-only spaces can hold. Growing up in such close proximity to women-only spaces without having the same kind of access gave me a special appreciation for the power they have to create community, heal misogyny’s wounds, and further female empowerment — all things trans women are often in desperate need of.

I mean, we can all hang out in our all-genders spaces. I’ll volunteer to keep them going, my partner can bring a batch of hir awesome cupcakes. But whether we are talking about a dyke march, a women’s conference, or localized feminist organizing, exerting external force to dismantle or destroy women’s spaces is never anything but misogynistic. And taking away an important resource from trans women is the truly transphobic act in this situation.

…this can’t be repeated enough.

“With either option, trans women are denied access to women only space.”

crying because I just really want to be a tree

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:25:32 -0400

crying because I just really want to be a tree

[AGGRESSIVELY CARES FOR YOU FROM A DISTANCE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER]

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:12:21 -0400

[AGGRESSIVELY CARES FOR YOU FROM A DISTANCE BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER]

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Sat, 18 May 2013 17:27:38 -0400

I am sunlight and yellow straw and I want to curl up into a ball and cry and be a crowd (or a cloud)...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:32:00 -0400

I am sunlight and yellow straw and I want to curl up into a ball and cry and be a crowd (or a cloud) and it is all light yellow-ish and brown and kind of rusty but warm and soft with lots of lines. I feel like swirling and being on a carousel and it being summer and I want to smile and cry and laugh and I’m on a rollercoaster in a parade. I’m starting a journey but everything is okay and scary and there will be loss and I know it but it is okay. I feel like a pile of hay. it’s warm it’s warm I am okay I want to be okay. I have lots of feelings.

homofauxbia: It bothers me that people are literally profitting from my oppression. Straight but...

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:24:18 -0400

homofauxbia:

It bothers me that people are literally profitting from my oppression. Straight but not Narrow doesn’t help queer people it “helps” allies, and they are making money by selling merchandise based on queer oppression, and not using that money to stop it. It boils my blood.

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey: joelbyeman: I feel like people in horror movies live in an...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:36:18 -0400

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

joelbyeman:

I feel like people in horror movies live in an alternate universe where there are no horror movies

That explains a lot

humancentipeed: In the Sims, you don’t say, “I love you.” You say, “Habadu bashubi,” which roughly...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:48:13 -0400

humancentipeed:

In the Sims, you don’t say, “I love you.” You say, “Habadu bashubi,” which roughly translates to, “I cannot move because there is furniture in the way.” I think that’s absolutely beautiful.

ididthatonce: stumblingphrases: you were really cute until that offensive joke spewed out of your...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:12:31 -0400

ididthatonce:

stumblingphrases:

you were really cute until that offensive joke spewed out of your mouth: a guide to how to not be my future lover by me.

If you wanna be my lover
You gotta get with my sociopolitical blogosphere

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Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:20 -0400

gaybabyjail: don’t limit yourself to panicking at the disco. panic everywhere. follow your wildest...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:36:27 -0400

gaybabyjail:

don’t limit yourself to panicking at the disco. panic everywhere. follow your wildest most anxious dreams

"The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What’s your alternative?” But even if you could..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:48:29 -0400

“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What’s your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.”

- Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution (The Women’s Press, 1979), pp. 210-211 (via radtransfem)

What astounds me the most about cis feminism is how cis women expect...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:39:00 -0400

What astounds me the most about cis feminism is how cis women expect...:

marxvx:

What astounds me the most about cis feminism is how cis women expect me to share their love of popular/historical cis feminist icons when these women haven’t said a single thing about my experience. But I’m not allowed to complain about them unless they have gone out of their way to say something negative about trans women. How are these women relevant to me when they haven’t even acknowledged me? Silence isn’t support. Your responsibility to include people you have privilege over increases as the amount of visibility you have does, and cis women giving all of their pals the benefit of the doubt because they choose to ignore trans women is complicity with oppression. Putting the burden of proof on trans women to prove that someone is transmisogynistic, rather than putting the burden of proof on that person to prove that they aren’t transmisogynistic, implies that the starting point for a cis woman is that she is by default not transmisogynistic. Being immersed in a transmisogynistic culture is not a choice, but it is your starting point, and one you need to actively differentiate yourself from. Choosing to participate in a transmisgoynistic social movement (feminism) requires you to individuate and differentiate yourself from the movement affirmatively. If you don’t do that, I don’t know how you can expect me to receive you positively.

I may not go down in history but I’ll go down on you

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:12:26 -0400

I may not go down in history but I’ll go down on you

gabbiegabstoomuch: “Do you believe in equality for women? Then you’re a feminist!” Hell no, I don’t...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:24:18 -0400

gabbiegabstoomuch:

“Do you believe in equality for women? Then you’re a feminist!”

Hell no, I don’t jive with that shit. My feminism is exclusive. My feminism requires proof.

Any other “feminism” gets a qualifier.

Bad feminism

White feminism

Western feminism

Liberal feminism

Once you start letting anybody in as a feminist then you’ve got shit stains out there all, “Margaret Thatcher was a feminist because she was a powerful woman!” “Lena Dunham is a feminist because she has an all female cast!”

No.

Beyonce Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women and Gender Studies

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:06 -0400

Beyonce Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women and Gender Studies:

Baby Boy: The Sociocultural Effects of Prolonged Male Adolescence

Check on It: The Gendered Dynamics of Male Spectatorship in Urban Public Spaces

Crazy in Love: The Diagnosis and Treatment of “Female Hysteria” During the Late Nineteenth Century

Naughty Girl: Disidentification and the Performance of Female Sexual Promiscuity

Cater 2 U: Female Subservience and the Reinforcement of Hegemonic Gendered Power Structures

Get Me Bodied: A Radical Critique of the Sex/Gender Binary

Freakum Dress: The Role of Consumerism in the Construction and Assertion of Female Sexuality

Videophone: Social Networking Technology and the Deconstruction of the Dominant Gaze

Run the World (Girls): Historical Perspectives on Global Female Leadership

Bills Bills Bills: The Dual-Income Model and the Reshaping of the Domestic Sphere

Soldier: The Hypermasculinization of U.S. Military Culture

Independent Women: Girl I Didn’t Know You Could Get Down (to Business in the Public Sphere and Still Be Expected to Perform Domestic Labor During the “Second Shift”) Like That