January 2011
80 posts
come on up to the house: pet peeve #463 →
wordsandsteel:
readnfight:
champagneproblems:
ourcatastrophe:
acronyms like LGBTQQUA, QUILTBAGPIPE, etc
it seems to me that this largely arises out of a feeling that existing umbrella terms like queer or LGBT or whatever do not sit well with all those they purport to describe
which is a…
you need to read the whole thing!
i agree with wordsandsteel: read the whole thing y’all.
December 2010
29 posts
“When the abuse and oppression of an entire group of people is justified as...”
– “Michael Vick, Racial History, and Animal Rights,” Melissa Harris-Perry (via wordsandsteel)
Aishwarya Rai may sue Elle India for whitening her... →
also see this.
HRC Accidentally Reveals Strategy To Finally Pass... →
projectqueer:
Since repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was a seventeen-year breeze, the Human Rights Campaign indicates it plans to mimic that strategy when it comes to passing other LGBT equality legislation, like the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Which has also been … a breeze!
Speaking in one of his regular noxious soundbites, HRC chief flack Fred Sainz says,
“If you can fight and die...
After GOP Blocks DREAM Act, Where is Immigration... →
lfnt:
Roberto Lovato (my people!) of Presente.org speaks to Democracy Now about the DREAM Act and what should happen now that the Senate blocked it.
Rape has a history. Histories, actually. One of the patterns of a more local history can be seen and felt in the ways some instances of rape have the effect of mobilizing, even galvanizing people in ways that other acts of violence do not. I am not just speaking of feminists. If my dashboard is any indication, folks in my orbit have expended exponentially more outrage on the recent...
UC San Diego grad student scrambling to avoid... →
sapagitan:
again.
“So we stand here
On the edge of hell
In Harlem
And look out on the world
And...”
– from “Harlem”, Langston Hughes (via lfnt)
7 dimensions: Public Power in the Age of Empire →
criticalfocus:
It’s important to understand the nature of the beast [we are] up against..
Empire has a range of calling cards….For poor people in many countries, Empire does not always appear in the form of cruise missiles and tanks, as it has in Iraq and Afghanistan or Vietnam. It appears in their lives in very local avatars—losing their jobs, being sent unpayable electricity bills,...
Read this: Fatima Bhutto, "A Flood of Drone... →
Barack Obama ordered his first drone strike against Pakistan just 72 hours after being sworn in as president. It seems a suitably macabre fact that, according to a UN report on “targeted killings” (that is, assassinations) published in 2010, George W. Bush employed drone strikes 45 times in his eight years as President. In Obama’s first year in office, the drones were sent in 53...
“Man is the only government-making animal in the world. His right to a...”
– Frederick Douglass, “An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage” (The Atlantic, January 1867)
Read the full article here.
(via theatlantic)
“Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from...”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via blackfeminismlives)
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via exhibitnumber1)
API/A Love Letter Project →
On a basic level, the premise behind the API/A Love Letter Project is reclaiming a sense of optimism and self/communal progression for the Asian/American community. What the API/A Love Letter Project is is a collection of essays and letters written by members of the community—whether academic or not—poeticizing their hopes and dreams for the future of the social circles they come from.
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