February 2012
81 posts
“The emphasis on sex that currently permeates our public life attest not to our...”
– Ellen Willis, No More Nice Girls (via genderconfusion)
“**TRIGGER WARNING ABUSE, SUICIDE** Every time I read an article about...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com (via ladiebear)
Mad Girl's Love Song
faomosgirl:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
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“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via hugoschwyzer)
It's still cold in Alaska.: A Note About... →
bittersweetfluidquandary:
genderqueer:
manybothans:
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism,…
It's still cold in Alaska.: penrose-stairs: A... →
penrose-stairs:
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words
heretoseethequeen:
Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. …
“Sex will always be an exciting mystery to children, they’ll always want to know...”
– Steven Moffat (via tinysprout)
Judge Calls Residential Schools a Form of Genocide →
politicalcanuck:
WINNIPEG — The chairman of Canada’s truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in residential schools was an act of genocide.
Justice Murray Sinclair says the United Nations defines genocide to include the removal of children based on race, then placing them with another race to indoctrinate them....
that moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Game of Thrones valentine cards
beastlyart:
nevver:
Chris Bishop
Jkjsdfhsdjh the Hodor and Varys ones. Dead.
Another post about Valentine's Day. I know, I...
Just a thought. I talk to a lot of people who feel that Valentine’s Day is too corporate, kinda dumb, etc. etc. I feel like that’s the prevailing attitude among the circles I run in. And for the most part, I agree. I think that if you don’t want to celebrate it, you certainly don’t have to. Letting society dictate when and how you express love for someone doesn’t fly...
Watchredhead-monster:
Okay, forget everything I have ever complained about or told you to do, politically. Forget if you don’t read political posts. Stop. WATCH/READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
For those of you who for some reason cannot or do not want to watch the video, allow me to summarize. Right now there is a law that has passed the Virginia legislature that would mandate a trans-vaginal ultrasound for...