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thatneedstogo reblogged fuckingqpoc:

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Our femininities are often marginalized and delegitimized. We are often seen as heteronormative, apolitical, less radical, and less queer in a community where being visible and valued depends on being masculine or androgynous.

This femmephobia in queer communities—this devaluation and stigmatization of queer femininity—is a form of misogyny that is rooted in dominant patriarchal culture. It’s a form of sexism that intersects with cissexist, heterosexist, racist, classist, ableist, and sizeist views of femininity, women, and what it means to be queer.

The accusation that femme women “pass as straight” undermines our own self-definitions of our femme identities, our empowered embracing of our femininities, and our blatant disruption of the normative constructs of what it means to be feminine and a woman.

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—	Jeanette Young, Resisting Femme Invisibility. (via transformfeminism)

Source: thelinknewspaper.ca

#femme #feminism #queer

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suzelle3782:

My Thesis Adviser is Now Following Me on Twitter

And now she can see all the “THESIS THESIS DOOM HALLIE FLANAGAN AAH THESIS” Tweets I have, lololol

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williamjh:

Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie, “#482 – know your brooklynites during a hurricane”

I have friends in each of these categories.

“Since I’m a single officer in the Marine barracks and I’ve got the highest security clearance you can get, I also serve at the White House in close quarters with President Bush and President Obama at social events. Very seldom was the president ever alone, but one time the president had said, ‘Go and get the vice president,’ and all the straphangers went, and the president went in the Blue Room and was just standing there waiting for Biden. And there was no Secret Service around or anything, and I went, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to go and talk to the president about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” ’ He was looking out south—there’s an incredible view down past the Washington Monument to the Jefferson. And I just stepped in and said, ‘Sir?’ and he turned around and walks to me and I just started: ‘You know, sir, I want to let you know that there are a number of us that work very close to you who appreciate very much what you’re doing on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—more than you probably realize.’ And he was shaking my hand, he looks up and it’s like…he got it. I said, ‘I want to thank you for this.’ And he goes, ‘No, I want to thank you. Thank you for your service, and thank you for your courage.’”

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Tell: An Intimate History of Gay Men in the Military

Excellent collection of quotations and stories from gay servicemen past and present. I wish there were stories from servicewomen, too, but it’s GQ, they have their demographic. September 20th, people, we can do this and make the United States, and the world, a better place.

#lgbt #military #politics #DADT

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fat-fancy-fabulous reblogged ellendjneres:

transgenderexpress:

Argentina: Transgender rights bill campaign

this video is so great! :D

Source: transgenderexpress

#trans #trans* #transgender #argentina

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tylercoates:

The Grid: Why we published "Dawn of a new gay"

About two months ago, Paul Aguirre-Livingston, a 24-year-old writer and blogger, approached The Grid with an idea for a personal essay about what it’s like to be part of the first group of gay men to come of age in Toronto in the era of legalized gay marriage. He had coined a term—the Post-Mo—to describe himself and the extended group of men he socializes with in downtown Toronto. This group of people, he said, has never had to fight its government for equality. Thanks to the internet, they were able to explore their sexuality as young men—ask questions, get answers and meet like-minded youth—from the safety of their bedrooms. They don’t feel the same connection to the city’s annual Pride festivities or the Church-Wellesley Village that previous generations did. In fact, he saw it as a mark of success and progress that young gays in Toronto had spread out into the city, east and west, and rejected the notion that there was a designated strip where the bulk of their socializing should get done. Other writers have expressed similar feelings of disconnection from the Gay Village in the past, but Aguirre-Livingston’s was a point of view we hadn’t heard before, and one we thought would be of interest to our readers. We knew that not everybody would like or agree with what Aguirre-Livingston was saying, but the gay community, like any large group, is not a monolith—it contains multitudes of perspectives and we believed there was room for one more.

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The weekend before the piece appeared, we shot the accompanying photos at a Royal Canadian Legion. Aguirre-Livingtson invited people he knew to come and be part of the Post-Mo shoot. He asked them via email to “Please read the details about the piece first…If you don’t feel this way, please feel free to decline.” Here’s how he described his piece:

“[It’s about] the new generation of gays who feel they shouldn’t be so radically defined by their sexual orientation, choosing to live their lives outside of the village, how they want, and who do not feel forced to define anything or be hyper-political and ‘I’m here, I’m queer’-ish. We’re just guys who want more than just to be ‘the gay guy’ because that doesn’t inform our place in society or what we do—just who we sleep with. You may be on one end of the spectrum or the other, but you can’t deny [that] we definitely don’t share the same ideals or battles as the previous generation.”

In this response piece, the editors of The Grid make the point that their cover story was a personal essay (which, fine!). It does not, however, excuse the author’s complete disregard for history or even current struggles! It is personal, sure, but it’s an opinion piece, as well, some sort of attack on the idea of “mainstream gay culture,” which is not even really a thing that exists. What bothers me more than the insular nature of the piece (of course this guy just picked his friends to be photographed, and of course the magazine used quotes from them as if it were a reported trend piece!) is the flippant nature that the author used when describing the health risks of “having all of the sex [he] wants” while having not “held a guy’s hand in almost three years”: “I have regular HIV tests, because I’m aware of the importance of sexual health, but I’ve still managed to forget the condom once or twice without freaking out.” That’s just the tip of a massive iceberg, a new culture of selfishness running rampant among young gays who have come to maturity during a time when AIDS was no longer a major concern and for whom those “It’s Never Just HIV” ads were created.

It seems clear, of course, that this is a case of classic link-baiting. Scott made the good point that these sorts of opinion pieces pop up every June right on the cusp of international gay pride marches. And, unfortunately, we had to read another one, with the same post-gay message, and “post-mo” isn’t that much of a creative spin on a tired concept.

(Also, THE FUCKING BOW-TIES. Seriously.)

#gay stuff

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feministthought:

First Woman to be Managing Director of the IMF

My distaste for the IMF aside, Christine Lagarde is a BAMF.

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Audrey <3

ronronnement:

Stop-Motion Sillyband Fight

[Transcript: So, uh, I was reminded of Silly Bandz recently, you know, those things that were in last year, when you could be like, “hey, check out this wiggly thing around my wrist, it’s like a bracelet, except, check it out, after I take it off, it turns into, uh, ebola. No, it’s just tangled up, it’s the splash a dolphin makes after it leaves this world because it’s about to be destroyed by aliens. Or maybe it’s just inside it out? It’s obviously Cthulhu. Or upside-down, I guess it’s a hippogriff?

Anyway, besides that they’re awesome and the ambiguity is fun, they kind of demonstrate one of the basic ideas of topology. All of these shapes are topological circles, and no matter how you bend or stretch this thing, it’s still essentially a loop, and no matter how you manipulate two of them, you still won’t be able to get them linked together like this without breaking one. Nor will you be able to tie a knot in it, though you could probably do a pretty convincing un-knot. A pretty cool way to link them is like this, and if you can prove that there’s no way to unlink them without going around either my hand or my the rest of my body, you might just be a topologist. Let’s just add some more for good measure. Okay, but as much as I’m interested in questions like how to predict what the inverse of a Silly Band shape will be and what are some topologically interesting ways to link them, I’m also interested in amusing myself in stupid ways.]

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zachblume reblogged gdcm:

Apophthegm

gdcm (Paidika) writes about the greek word phthengomai,

I find this word at once ugly and fascinating. Phthengomai: it’s hardly a comely sound. And yet from what I can gather it’s nearly unique among Greek verbs of vocalization—and there are a number; the Greeks were chatty—for terms that can apply both to animal and to human sound. LSJ records that in context of a horse, it means to whinny; of an eagle, scream; of a raven, croak; of a fawn, cry. But it can also mean to speak clearly, as in Homer above. The suggestion, I’d like to think, is to connote sound before it becomes speech—compareφημί/phemi, “I say,” “I declare”; its frequentative form φάσκω/phasko, “I assert”; λέγω “say, speak, mean”; ἀγορεύω “I address, speak publicly.” φθέγγομαι is pure sound, an animal howl.

“The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book—what everyone else does not say in a book.” - Nietzsche

The etymologyically restored spelling, favored in the UK, apparently is “apophthegm” according to OED.

As Sassure writes in Cours de Linguistique Generale, “Signs function, then, not through their intrinsic value but through their relative position [to each other].” He was invoking the phemi:ephen=present:imperfect relationship, and I find in his quote a vivid application to what you write:“φθέγγομαι is pure sound, an animal howl,” which you paint through comparisons to words (signs) that bear, in Sassure’s words, an associative relationship to it. One might question: without these other words standing in contrast, would we hear that howl?

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ronronnement reblogged darkjez:

thebestcomicsintheworld:

Racism

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