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Summer by Shirin Neshat

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:46:08 -0400

Summer by Shirin Neshat

emptythoughts: Michigan Woman Who Inspired WWII ‘Rosie’ Poster...

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:34:45 -0500

emptythoughts:

Michigan Woman Who Inspired WWII ‘Rosie’ Poster Has Died

derica: zuky: herzundseele: newfilosofee: Jim Hurlbut: You...

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:25:58 -0500

derica:

zuky:

herzundseele:

newfilosofee:

Jim Hurlbut: You were born in Omaha, is that right?

Malcolm X: Yes sir.

Hurlbut: And your family left Omaha when you were what? One year old?

Malcolm X: I imagine about a year old.

Hurlbut: Now, why did they eave Omaha?

Malcolm X: Well, to my understanding… the Ku Klux Klan burned down one of their homes in Omaha.

Hurlbut: This made your family feel very unhappy actually?

Malcolm X: Well insecure if not unhappy.

Hurlbut: So they must have a somewhat prejudiced point of view — a personally prejudiced point of view. In other words, you cannot look at this in a broad, academic sort of way, really, can you?

Malcolm X: I think that’s incorrect, because despite the fact that that happened in Omaha and then when moved to Lansing, Michigan our home was burned down again — in fact, my father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and despite all of that, no one was more thoroughly integrated with whites than I. No one has lived more so in the society of whites than I.

This portion of this famous interview has always fascinated me. Hurlbut is asserting that people of color cannot be objective about racism because they have experienced the violence of racism, which apparently “prejudices” you. Only white people can look at racism in a “broad, academic sort of way” because they are the architects of racism and only experience the benefits of white supremacism. And he’s sitting there saying this on national television as though he’s making sense. Hurlbut is pushing this intellectual depravity at Malcolm X as though he has found a clever way to discredit Malcolm’s perspective. This is what white racism does to white people: it makes them stupid. This is why I’ve often described whiteness as a cognitive trauma, a lifetime of conditioning which inhibits certain neural faculties and results in a certain kind of dissociative disorder. Only people who have dissociated themselves from their own humanity can happily picnic under swinging corpses.

(via thenewfilo)

lesanimauxadorables: (via lesfemmes, amandus)

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:01:15 -0500

lesanimauxadorables:

(via lesfemmes, amandus)

mollysoda

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:59:31 -0500

mollysoda

Lesbian Bed Death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (via effing...

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:51:00 -0400

Lesbian Bed Death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (via effing dykes)

Don’t have internet, tumblr.
Do have job, garden, cat, violin, etc.

Video

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:29:17 -0400

mollysoda: i’ll take flirting & coquettery over virtue...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:37:20 -0400

mollysoda:

i’ll take flirting & coquettery over virtue & devotion any day

(via alexandraaaa)

emptythoughts: skirtonfire:annie-dog: the green ribbon Once...

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:19:06 -0400

emptythoughts:

skirtonfire:annie-dog:

the green ribbon

Once there was a girl named Jenny. She was like all the other girls, except for one thing. She always wore a green ribbon around her neck. There was a boy named Alfred in her class. Alfred liked Jenny, and Jenny liked Alfred. One day he asked her, “Why do you wear that ribbon all the time?” “I cannot tell you,” said Jenny. But Alfred kept asking, “Why do you wear it?” And Jenny would say, “It is not important.” Jenny and Alfred grew up. And fell in love. One day they got married. After the wedding, Alfred said, “Now that we’re married, you must tell me about the green ribbon.” “You still must wait,” said Jenny. “I will tell you when the right time comes.” Years passed. Alfred and Jenny grew old. One day Jenny became very sick. The doctor told her she was dying. Jenny called Alfred to her side. “Alfred,” she said, “Now I can tell you about the green ribbon. Untie it, And you will see why I could not tell you before.” Slowly and carefully, Alfred untied the ribbon, and Jenny’s head fell off.

lgbtlaughs: gayformarriage: jerryisthinking: This will make...

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:19:59 -0400

lgbtlaughs:

gayformarriage:

jerryisthinking:

This will make quite a few of my friends happy.

mollysoda: moscowandberlin

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:50:07 -0400

mollysoda:

moscowandberlin

Photo

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:25:20 -0400

So this happened at work today

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:05:00 -0400

I missed, unfortunately, the conversation on lesbianism, which I was sort of (sort of) nervous/happy to hear in the office.

I don’t think it is a mistake that a joke about woman-beating followed a conversation on lesbianism.

The joke itself was followed by repeated protestations/prostrations about how no-one was being serious and how they are just not interested in being “PC.”

They said that as if it were in fact the punch-line; as if their non-PC stance made it okay to tell a totally fucked up joke.

I don’t have delusions about men. I know that men hate me. I also know hate speech when I hear it. The lesbians (at least 3! yay!) in my office can joke about lesbianism. But no-one should joke about beating women.

Even if he hadn’t said it and still held those beliefs, he wouldn’t have harmed me in this instance. But his saying it directly harms all of the women in the office (and women generally) by reinforcing totally fucked up thought patterns under the guise of humor.

Photo

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:47:04 -0400

Photo

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:55:33 -0400

went to bryn mawr yesterday to pick this up. in typical batten fashion, i quite rudely woke up...

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:49:22 -0400

went to bryn mawr yesterday to pick this up. in typical batten fashion, i quite rudely woke up the person (people?) sleeping in my old room. looking around the living room i felt like i had never left. came home, got drunk and listened to reeeeeeecords.

nongenderous: ravingsofaspinster: “I hate this wretched...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:30:08 -0400

nongenderous:

ravingsofaspinster:

“I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands.” - Karin Boye

NPR: In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:30:00 -0400

NPR: In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter:

“Truth is something that we can all have an opinion and argue about” (29 min).

Ok, this is hilarious and likely NOT what he meant to say at all — it beautifully makes the point of the program, and taken at face-value it makes my point/interest in the story. Also I’m pretty sure he wasn’t listening to the articulate, insightful (female) caller that he was responding to.

lgbtlaughs: “Queerer Than Thou is a comedy that tackles the...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0400

lgbtlaughs:

“Queerer Than Thou is a comedy that tackles the age-old question of Who is the queerest of them all?. With a cast representing many diverse aspects of LGBT/Queer communities, Queerer Than Thou explores the boundaries of identity, and the tensions that frequently exist along these borderlands. Through off-beat humor and a surreal dance-off finale, Queerer Than Thou pokes fun at LGBT/Queer communities from within. This unique and amusing critique of identity politics has screened at over 30 film festivals world wide and continues to screen at colleges throughout the US.” (Submitted by halfright)

shit… shit… The FOOD bubble and Wall Street: ...

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:07:54 -0400

shit… shit…

The FOOD bubble and Wall Street: streaming NPR / Harper’s article