February 2012
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Sylvia Rivera 10 Year Memorial
thespiritwas:
“I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist. I was proud to make the road and help change laws and what-not. I was very proud of doing that and proud of what I’m still doing, no matter what it takes.” Sylvia Rivera to Leslie Feinberg
(Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson, photo by Leonard Fink)
Tomorrow marks the 10 year anniversary of Sylvia Rivera’s...
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I wish Beyonce and Jay Z would get on stage and...
summer-nightlock:
Jay-Z: Look, Blue. Everything the light touches is our kingdom.
Blue: What about the shadowy part?
Jay-Z: That’s country music. You must never go there.
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So. I'm moving to Iowa tomorrow.
I’m going to be serving in Americorps for 10 months. I’m super excited for it, but unfortunately, it’s going to probably impact this blog pretty badly.
I won’t have a pretty much constant Internet connection, like I do now. I’ll still be on tumblr, just not as much as I normally am. This is probably going to mean less original content from me, but I will do my best...
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The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...
– M.I.A. Shouldn’t Have Apologized - The New Yorker
(via stopdroptroll)
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Parts of the Super Bowl I watched:
obnoxiouslyloud:
1. Part of Madonna’s Half-Time Show 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Can we talk for a minute?
About Cee-Lo’s sparkly choir robe? What was that? Why did I love it?
Feelings on Madonna, followers?
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January 2012
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Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid...
– Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” : The New Yorker
(via judyxberman)
SFJ is on the money, per usj. Andthe other question to ask: why are female artists the only ones who inspire such “discussion”, or “authenticity” “discussions” where sexism is masked as discernment? I am literally...
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I WOULD LIKE TO START A SUPPORT GROUP/DISCUSSION...
besttumblr:
tangledupinlace:
feral-femme:
feral-femme:
there are lots of white queer people who i hold very near and dear to my heart. my best friend/platonic life partner, my girlfriend, and many of the queer people who i am closest to are white. my mom is also white and is kind of queer. i think they all identify and work on being anti-racist white people but there are still, obviously,...
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Kaia Wilson's has a Kickstarter for her new album!
Thank you to knotsewtrashy for the heads up, because I hadn’t heard anything about this.
So. Kaia Wilson is making a new album. And we all love Kaia Wilson, right? Right. She needs to raise $1,700-ish dollars in 22 days to do it. Also, the video features her playing guitar with some goats, so check out the page just for that.
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I know I’m not the one you thought you knew back in high school
Never going,...
– President Barack Obama - State of the Union (via thenewhotness)
“I support legal abortion (bortion bortion bortion)” - Barack Obama
(via synecdoche)
At Last has become arguably the most popular song in the U.S. for weddings,...
– From Kenyon Farrow’s insightful Political Obituary of Etta James, Colorlines, 1/24/12 (via racialicious)
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FACT: Only the Homogay can see all the colors of...
700 followers!
Holy shit, that’s awesome! I will celebrate later by actually posting things!
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["do not tell anyone, in any oppressed group, to...
brownroundboi:
—-Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones gives 6 rules for allies (cross race/gender/sexuality/nationality/religion etc) in her keynote speech given 2/19/10 at a luncheon sponsored by Abriendo Brecha Vll Conference and The Seventeenth Annual Emerging Scholarship In Women’s and Gender Studies Conference UT Austin. (mentor, educator, powerful leader, theater artist and cultural worker...
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