December 2011
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“Because I spend so much time now in a very professional, gender normative work...”
– Dean Spade in q&a with Queer Couture
aaaaaaaaaaaah yes! this this this this!
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I give you the 2012 Republican Presidential...
Michele Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michele Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
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“The point of this is…there was a way to hand it free money which would benefit...”
– Eschaton: To Restate
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On Being Hard Femme #1 →
sexismandthecity:
This made my night day week month life.
Honestly, I am smiling so big right now.
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“First, it is simply false that scholarships for people of color crowd out monies...”
– Tim Wise, A Bad Year for White Whine: College Scholarships and the Cult of Caucasian Victimhood (via steviemcfly)
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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“Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and...”
– Tiger Beatdown (via pnasty)
i want everyone to read this.
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This has been on my dash before, but I’m putting it back for awareness.
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Yeah. Fuck you.
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Last week I flipped off a guy on the street who asked if he could “get a smile” from...
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“If you’re gonna have pizza with someone else, what do you have to do? You gotta...”
– NY Times: Teaching Good Sex (via ffolkthepainaway)
A metaphor about pizza and sex? Perfect!
(via dreadhawkedmuckaround)
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W. W. Norton: To a Friend in Love with the Wrong... →
wwnorton:
It was never meant to be sensible, fully understandable. The digger wasp, for example, goes up to the tarantula like a friend and the tarantula freezes, allows itself to be inspected. Then it digs the tarantula’s grave while the tarantula watches. You, I bet, would have guessed with a name like tarantula, the tarantula would’ve been the villain. But it is we who named the tarantula and...
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“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via liquidnight)
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