If only we were going as hard on queer children getting bullied, gender policing, poverty and disproportionate homelessness among queer folk as we were going on gay marriage. I guess we think that once gay marriage is secured, the rest will fall into place. Has the Trickle Down Theory ever worked, though?
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Liberated women did not ‘fall in love,’ we chose to love - that was different from falling in love. Choosing meant that we exercised will, power, and agency. Falling implied a loss of power, the possibility of victimhood.
bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via lakitalki)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Is there a superlative for “DED”? Because that is what I am right now
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I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison (via humanformat)
THIS. hate hearing people from minority groups who have gotten a chance in life bitching about how ”if THEY can do it, so can everyone else! its so fucking SIMPLE! You guys just need to stop being so lazy”
its NOT fucking simple and how DARE you belittle the struggles of those like you just because they aren’t lucky enough to be in ur position.
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DIY Cut Off Jean Lace Shorts. Another easy and pretty tutorial from Clones & Clowns here.
Amazing idea.
I got my new sewing project tho!
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Your School Might Be Beige When…
I’m at a point of mellow sadness right now. Thinking how I’m going to muddle through when many of my neon compadres are considering heading outta this joint.
My Official “Is your school Beige?” checklist:
- Do the majority of people wear gym shorts all day everyday like they’re training for the Olympics. We know you don’t go to the gym every day, and we know you aren’t that healthy because…
- They occupy their weekends with drinking to hide the fact that there isn’t shit else to do on campus (well, in your lame “college experience seeking” circle)
- Ehhhh Yuk, Yuk, YOLO!
- In any given conversation is someone complaining about either: the food served on campus *because everyone in your family is a 5 star chef rih? Trust me if you’re a true beige then I already know it NEEDS MORE SAZON*, the fact that they almost went to insertschoolhere but are lamentably stuck in this “dump”, or electronics are being “ghetto” for not being as fast as they used to be before they “rightclick saved” all of those quirky little pictures with inspirational quotes above them.
- Shoot, ANY utterance of the word ghetto as a descriptor from anyone who hasn’t lived it
- The concept of people being anything that is not HeterosexualCisgenderedWhiteMiddleClass or any emulation thereof in itself is offensive to the general public and they somehow are the ones being victimized.
- Food with spices or textures that differ from what is featured in the typical salad or Applebees commercial are tasted with the Greatest trepidation
- People wearing their hair in any way that is not the typical length for their assigned gender, is not wavy/straight, and is not neutral colored are either not to be taken seriously or feared.
- When news spreads that a little known band is coming it becomes everyone’s new favorite and the songs are played until the speakers wish they could commit seppuku
- Complain of being broke one moment, Proud of being “Upper Middle Class” the next
- Toms.Uggs.The North Face.Rainbow.American Eagle.Hollister.Sperry.Ray Ban. Vera Bradley. (Prada and Coach, D&G etc.) If any of these brands are exalted and are used as measures of acceptability or a means to exclude.
- Denial of overarching culture with simultaneous failure to recognize without fetishizing others.
Any school, Any person, can be beige. Just because a person is a member of an oppressed group doesn’t automatically disqualify them from beigedom. If you object to any part of the list and insist that you are not like the examples then you really shouldn’t have anything to be upset about because I am not referring to you.
Upon my entrance to this school I was expecting some alienation, double consciousness is something that I’ll have to deal with all my life… but the foolishness that I have heard/experienced while attending this “Institution of Higher Education” is so horrible I have to laugh to keep from never talking to anyone again.
I got two more years left. I will probably return to the list to add more when necessary.
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