April 2011
53 posts
“I am worn out with desire.”
—Marguerite Duras (via proustitute)
germfree adolescents
X-Ray Spex
This really bums me out.
R.I.P. Poly Styrene. You’ve been an inspiration since i was 16
Y’know what? Fuck cancer.
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"Don't Say Gay" in Tennessee →
bilerico.com
Tennessee’s state judiciary committee passed the “don’t say gay” bill this week, prohibiting any discussion of homosexuality prior to ninth grade. Sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxille, the measure is being added to the existing Board of Education’s “family life curriculum.” The 6-3 Republican-dominated vote is now headed to the Senate floor, and supports Campfield’s suspicions that homosexuality is being discussed in classrooms despite the state Department of Education claiming they were unaware of any such activity. Campfield has been pushing the bill for six years.
Do we need more evidence that they want us dead?
Seriously? What the fuck?
At first I thought this was a law banning people from calling things “gay” as a slur/synonym for “lame” or “bad.” No actually it’s a proposed law to make it illegal for teachers to mention that homosexuality exists. UGHHHHHH
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
Wild West
Gregory And The Hawk
Currently cannot stop listening to Gregory and the Hawk. Been in a wistful cute-girl music mood lately.
“Some will read “queer” as synonymous with “gay and lesbian” or “LGBT.” This reading falls short. While those who would fit within the constructions of “L”, “G”, “B”, or “T” could fall within the discursive limits of queer, queer is not a stable area to inhabit. Queer is not merely another identity that can be tacked onto a list of neat social categories, nor the quantitative sum of our identities. Rather, it is the qualitative position of opposition to presentations of stability—an identity that problematizes the manageable limits of identity. Queer is a territory of tension, defined against the dominant narrative of white-hetero-monogamous-patriarchy, but also by an affinity with all who are marginalized, otherized, and oppressed. Queer is the abnormal, the strange, the dangerous. Queer involves our sexuality and our gender, but so much more. It is our desire and fantasies and more still. Queer is the cohesion of everything in conflict with the heterosexual capitalist world. Queer is a total rejection of the regime of the Normal.”
—toward the queerest insurrection (via eastofethan)
“You’re in my blood, this room, Spring
itself
is filled with you.” —
itself
is filled with you.” —
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
via leda-swanson:::melancholynotes (via frenchtwist)
“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality, and real human needs.”
— Arthur Evans, quoted by Derrick Jensen in Walking on Water, p. 85 (via dietgingerale)
The Crippled Jazzer
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern - The Crippled Jazzer
UNF.