December 2011
92 posts
“Traditionally, in american society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified...”
– Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via mylifeasafeminista
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Awesome Every Day: James Franco Unable To... →
girl-detective:
by GirlDetective
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Hollywood star and ridiculously accomplished renaissance man, James Franco, expressed confusion this Wednesday as to why his famous peer, actor Ryan Gosling, was the subject of an increasingly absurd internet meme that relies on…
“Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual...”
– Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via jadedfucker)
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WatchAbFab Is Back! and here’s the new episode!!!!
“Language means also culture and philosophy (if only at the level of common...”
– Antonio Gramsci, taken from Hegemony & Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli by Benedetto Fontana p173 (via philosophy-of-praxis)
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was...”
– Toni Morrison (via undefinedbeautifully)
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WatchWhy Liberals Are More Coherent Than Conservatives
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow pines away for rigorous political debate in Conversations With Slate.
Part 1
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“In a paradoxical sense, once I accepted my position as different from the larger...”
– Audre Lorde “Zami: a New Spelling of My Name” (via mekhimorphosis
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“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body,...”
– Hunter Reveur
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Queer Insurrection: Reflection on privilege,... →
queerinsurrection:
I see a lot of discussions on tumblr about privilege, most notably the binary between the oppressors and the oppressed. The Internet provides a space for many silenced voices to be heard, which provides an ambivalent space for me to navigate as a feminist, queer, radical, person of color.
I’m just going to be blunt and cut the jargon.
We need to fucking heal together.
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Why Rappers Are Suddenly Speaking Out in Support... →
ince the genre’s explosion into the public consciousness in the early ’80s, rap music has stood apart as one of popular culture’s most unregulated forums for anti-gay hate speech. From Ice Cube’s paean to male anal rape, “No Vaseline,” to Big Daddy Kane proclaiming himself “anti-f——t” and Eminem’s scorching repudiation of homosexuality on 2000’s “Criminal”—“Whether you’re a fag or...
“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of...”
– Gerald M. Edelman (via black-tangled-heart
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Watchiheartmoosiq:
Jónsi of Sigur Rós composed the soundtrack for the upcoming film We Bought a Zoo along with director Cameron Crowe, one of my favorite film directors out of many. The song Gathering Stories was previewed a short while back, but now there is an fantastic, ethereal animated music video to accompany the extraordinary, cinematic song. The song sounds a little a la Coldplay at times...
“We have to create. It is the only thing louder than destruction.”
– Andrea Gibson (via dirtcrumbgoddess
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“It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are...”
– — Margaret Cho (via false-catalyst
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