January 2011
245 posts
Pride
Those who say they don’t understand Pride and don’t see why being gay or bi or trans is something to be proud of - it’s not like straight people need a Pride Parade to be straight, right? - those people have probably never been in a place where they couldn’t look at themselves because of the minority they were part of. That place where they were so ashamed of who they were,...
Ireen's Gaze: Trans-misogyny →
transpride:
Of all of the gender and sexual minorities in our culture, transsexual women tend to be the most maligned, ridiculed, and despised because we are uniquely positioned at the intersection of three binary gender-based forms of prejudice:
Transphobia is an irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against people who transgress gender norms. The prevalence of transphobia in our...
Blogging in shadows: Hurt →
j-applebee:
If half of me gets stabbed, all of me feels the pain.
I don’t often read the papers, because I end up getting very depressed, very quickly. However I did hear about the Ugandan queer rights activist found dead on 27th January 2011, and also about a lesbian threatened with deportation from the U.K to Uganda. When I opened the Guardian newspaper, I was shocked to see the photo...
“Most of the people who’ve had their lives turned upside down from sexting have been young women. Which is very revealing. Girls in the United States have been arrested, or suspended or expelled from schools because they send a picture of their tits to their boyfriend. Who then forwarded it to everyone at this school, who then forwarded it to everyone on earth. So why wasn’t the...
Today I spotted bed covers that were sold in 3 sizes, symbolized like this:
Fuck yeah, a threesome friendly bed cover sales thingy!
Day = made.
A campaign to remind people that sexworkers are...
lipstick-feminists:
Submitted by swallowedwhole:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1224098.html
That awkward moment...
When someone says something like
I just want everyone to have the right to be themselves, wear what they like and love who they like. Equality is important and you can’t hate me for who I am.
Then goes to bash some fourteen year old girl because she has a teen obssession with some book named ‘Twilight’. Because apparently, bad taste is a crime and makes you worthy of...
“They’re not gay cowboys! They’re bisexual sheep herders!”
–
girl in my English class (re: Brokeback Mountain)
I need this on a t-shirt.
“I have definitely gotten to the point where I always feel really good about my...”
– Jessica (tangledupinlace)
10 Ways to Answer Fat Hater →
I hope..
I hope my future boyfriend (of girlfriend or boygirlfriend) is slutty, and has slept with hundreds of men, and is an insecure virgin, and giggles when I touch him, and has a strange spot on his back, and is freakishly tall, and very short, and has ribbles on his thighs, and doesn’t like having sex with his socks off, and has funny fingers, and has scars on his chest, and sometimes cries...
BDSM groups
It would be great if all local BDSM clubs were lgbtq-friendly, sexism-free, rascism-free, fatphobiafree, sex-positive, age-positive and generally accepting of people who aren’t extremely sadomasochistic but just like a little kink.
but of course, they’re not.
So dear BDSM groups: stop assuming that because you’re representing a deviant sexual taste, you are therefore perfect....
That awkward moment...
… when someone in an lgbtq group starts blabbing how they think bisexuality is biologically impossible.
You dooshbag. I don’t want to hear your reasons for thinking that, nobody here does. Nobody asked you. This is not a biology conference, this in a lgbtq group. Obviously there are bi people here (and at biology conferences, but that’s another story) and you have no right to...
“Gay subtext always makes every movie better.”
–
Quentin Tarantino (via thecakesniffer)
Thank you, Quentin. I agree completely.
Ten Things That Feminism Could Do Better →
newwavefeminism:
I actually enjoyed reading this list. It’s good to see ways in which we need to build the movement up, and the topics that we need to refocus on. Keep in mind, while reading, that this is from the perspective of a feminist from the UK - but I actually think that provides more insight than it takes away.
From the article:
I should start by saying that this list should in no...
Not A Phase: I'm kind of really doubting myself... →
derekisme:
not-a-phase:
I thought I was so sure of my sexuality. I thought I finally figured it out. Now I’m not so sure. First I thought I was straight, then I thought I was gay, then I thought I was bi, now I have no idea. I’m caught somewhere between gay and bi. It’s not that I don’t like girls, because they’re…
Hey, that is me when I was eighteen/nineteen! The answer, for a guy at...
Are you a man or a woman?
Dear application form,
I am a man. But I really don’t see why that’s relevant for me to get this library card. And I really think you’ve phrased the question wrong. You’ve just ignored the existence of tons of people who do not fit those two categories. By ignoring their existence, you are oppressing them. You are telling them they don’t exist and that robs them of...
Real Men?
The quote I just posted got me thinking and as such I googled ‘real women’ and then ‘real men’. The results were, well, not very surprising.
A ‘Real Women’ gives you 10% sexism and 90% body positivity, mostly produced by Dove. I’m all for body positivity, but of course this step forward is a small one. ‘Real women’ apparently still young with...
Real Women Have Curves?
The general gist of the phrase is that it is a rebellion against the media stereotype that to be beautiful women must be slender and tall with glossy hair and perfect skin. “Real women have curves” means that those considered by Hollywood to be ‘fat’ can be beautiful again. However, the phrase is a lie. And not only a lie, but an incredibly difficult one to disagree with. Who wants to be accused...
