June 2011
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May 2011
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“Ever notice how the women in Cosmopolitan magazine so often look like they’re a...”
– Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Breaking the Male Gaze | Fatshionista (via knospen, curvesahead) (via hatari) (via somerset) (via loveyourchaos) (via rememo) (via princessketchup) (via queerandpresentdanger) (via ireensarrows)
To put it another way: to be a woman is to be seen. You want to be a woman? You...
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Why the US Military Sucks →
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phraznikov:
I was reading an article the other day, another one of those ones about how we (us college students) are getting fucked by budget cuts, and how student loan debt is the highest it’s ever been — even higher than credit card debt. And there’s a sort of inflation happening with college degrees; every year you’re paying more for a degree that’s worth less.
317,000 waiters...
Porn This Way! (Queer Porn Cover of Lady Gaga's...
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How awesome is this Lady Gaga Cover!?
Lyrics: It doesn’t matter if you love hir, or capital H-I-R Just turn that volume up And watch queer porn, baby
Society told me when I was young About various normative sexual scripts I rolled my hair and put my lipstick on And then tore those scripts to bits There’s nothing...
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“It should be no surprise that queers are liable to an intense library cathexis....”
– Valerie Rohy, “In the Queer Archive: Fun Home”. GLQ 16.3 (2010). (via fuckyeahgenderstudies)
I love this.
“Gender essentialism is the assumption that women are naturally like this, while...”
– Jennifer Kesler, Why there will be no more gender essentialist comments allowed on this site (via avid)
I love this. I tire of gender essentialism, especially because whenever I ask people - intelligent, articulate people, even! - to elaborate and explain exactly what they mean by “women have...
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April 2011
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“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called...”
– Chris Rock, “Kill The Messenger” (via lostgrrrls)
“Being on the receiving end of penetration, no matter what position you’re in,...”
– When Scientists Don’t Understand Sex: Feminism, Dominance, and Arousal | Charlie Glickman (via sexisnottheenemy)
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You never need to convince anyone you're trans*
transpride:
I have come out to my parents more than once and on this last attempt, I told them seriously: I am a man. I am going to start Testosterone and I am going to have surgery. I ask humbly for your support through my transition.
My family is looking for every other possible explanation. I am a “insecure gay woman,” my friends have convinced me to join a cult, I’m bored.
I found myself...
The Meaning of Sex →
fuckyeahbisexuals:
By: Marty Klein, Ph.D.
Sex has no intrinsic Meaning.
Almost everyone wishes it did.
The desire to give sex meaning is an understandable, important enterprise. Honestly approached, it can be a valuable exercise; disguised as the righteous desire to simply appreciate the meaning sex has, or as the pursuit of restoring sex’s “true” meaning, it is a...
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“How’s an intelligent person supposed to react when he discovers that he’s merely...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via fuckyeahpalahniuk) (via the-grand-antiprism) (via ylisor) (via sexisold) (via lophophorawilliamsii)
GPOY. Why don’t any of my mental health books address THIS?
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TEAR IT ALL DOWN!
And make...
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“Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This...”
– toward the queerest insurrection (via eastofethan)
