January 2011
33 posts
December 2010
44 posts
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman
Sometimes I’m an asshole who forgets when I have a lunch date with a beautiful friend. I would blame it on my crazy family or something but really it’s that I have the mind of an eighty-five year old woman. I’m sorry Ish, I feel awful. I’ll make it up to you tonight in excessive compliments and sexual favours. Well, I don’t think either of our partners would like...
pray for rain.: We live in a femmephobic queer... →
callmebrandy:
We live in a femmephobic queer society and while this at one time made me sad, it now motivates me to fight for change. To challenge the classist, ableist, racist, fatphobic, transphobic, femmephobic society that I live in and ask people why they allot so much sexual currency to butch/masculine presenting queers and why they think it’s okay to enforce a queer aesthetic (which,...
dont believe the hype, no body is free yet →
what i am interested in is what will happen, how will we survive, how will we build community, after this empire falls. some folks are predicting that china or india will create the new empire. i say, no. i say, i dearly hope no.
was sitting at the bar with a few kids, economics majors, and we get on the topic of palestine. i can still see them pulling out the old cards, like, you have...
My Mom just got mad at me for criticizing World Vision. Oh god, time to go back to Victoria.
POWER
For a reason, it is hard to clean up blood when it spills.
It stains with permanence, even the underside of our skin. It tags the spot we were wounded in, the size of the tag tells the size of the wound.
Maybe this is why, at the Rainbow Motel in Memphis, they had to use a cut-off saw to break away the large reddened concrete balcony piece that Dr. King breathed his spirit out on. Derrick...
Joni Mitchell - River This is most definitely one...
“My problem with the hype and pressure around DADT is that it distracts from the...”
– Why I Won’t Be Celebrating the Repeal of DADT: Queer Soldiers are Still Agents of Genocide | … Or Does It Explode?
some people are seriously just a lost cause. →
So, I typically don’t respond to ignorant “anti-feminist” tumblrs but seriously, this person just intrigued/irritated me. I feel like I’ve encountered her (or someone like her - someone with extremely disjointed opinions which don’t make much sense, but which they feel the need to share loudly and without much forethought) in at least one of every one of my...
“Whiteness purports to be both nothing and everything. It is the race that need not speak its name. Yet it defines itself as no less than whatever it chooses to exclude.”
- J. Levine, “White Like Me”, 2003
Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as... →
What Freire made clear is that pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves...
Watchunstabledreamer:
oh wow. endless fun. and procrastination for miss b. palmer.
Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your...
The next generation - and what women sometimes... →
etiquette-etc:
By Jessica Yee
It’s December 6th 2009, and many people have been asking me what I’m thinking today. What do I think about this day where 20 years ago, a man walked into a Montreal engineering college and shot 14 women, specifically because they were women. Interestingly enough, I had to fight to have an Anishinaabe grandmother open and be present at the event I’m speaking at...
