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Already given discourses might elide the specificities of those with firm...
– C. Jacob Hale, “Consuming the Living, Dis(Re)Membering the Dead in the Butch/FTM Borderlands,” via FORGE (via genderqueer)
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Deal With It Wednesday
I LOVE the new MLP, even though ponies are pretty evil. Deal with it.
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The Puritans aspired to build instead a pure theocratic homeland in America. As...
– Full article here at Slate. Read until you get to Merrymount, the coolest colonial town you never visited in middle school. The history seems very, very cool indeed, and casts a nice light on the narrative that queers are new and alien to Amurrica.
Of course, the reviewer says the message...
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When the show went to No. 1 in December 1988, ABC sent a chocolate “1” to...
– Roseanne Barr. At some point, we are all Roseanne. Her essay in NY MAG is worth reading.
ETA: “Barr now lives in Hawaii, where she farms macadamia nuts.” <3
(via yrfriendliz)
seriously read the whole essay, it’s really good. i love roseanne.
(via jtwigg365)
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Sad that we even need to protest about this,...
choochoobear:
dezidesire:
The fact that any of this HAS to be said is pathetic and embarrassing for humanity.
If we understand “slut” to mean “someone (usually a woman) who dresses sexy,...
– The Pervocracy: Answering Slutwalk FAQs. (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Added Ginsburg, "In short, freedom of speech means...
Words cannot express how much I love this woman. Image from the best article The Onion has ever written.
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If there’s one thing that we see rarely — if at all — in porn, it’s laughter....
– Hugo Schwyzer (Some laughter with the lovemaking, please: on porn, performance, and deadly seriousness)
(I laugh hysterically almost every time I have sex. I did it during my first kiss, which made my boyfriend break up with me. I never understood why so many people aren’t in on the joke....
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In moments like these, I feel in my gut just how political the maternal is. It...
– Motherhood and Feminism, by Natalie Wilson.
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