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nope, have all the crushes.

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:58:57 -0400

nope, have all the crushes.

have all the crushes/lose all the crushes 2k13

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:23:16 -0400

have all the crushes/lose all the crushes 2k13

lalunafemme: taraobrien: Red Riding HoodThe last in a series...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:56:03 -0400

lalunafemme:

taraobrien:

Red Riding Hood

The last in a series of illustrations based on femmes in fairy tales.

NAILZ

nitanahkohe: it’s not a dismissal. i have read her books...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:54:06 -0400

nitanahkohe:

it’s not a dismissal. i have read her books multiple times, and am well versed in her work. there are quite a few scholars who have critiqued Gloria Anzaldúa for her problematic definition and mobilization of indigeneity, including Andrea Smith (there is a quote from Smith’s article somewhere in this month’s archive of my blog, if you wanna dig thru to find it). a quick search on google scholar should find you what you’re looking for.

i appreciate Anzaldúa for the work that she did, and recognize that she has been a foundational inspiration for many powerful women of color, and for that reason deserves love and respect. her writing style is beautiful and she has a strength in her that i have continually tried to fortify in myself. as a woman who is also trying to connect to her indigenous heritage and make sense of her identities and situatedness in and outside the academy, i admire her relentless passion for such endeavors in her own life—it’s not easy.

none of that detracts from the lateral violence in her writings, which essentialize indigenous cultures of the Southwest and periodize them in a static framing of what Anzaldúa imagines Native cultural practices to signify. a lot of what she has written in that regard is inaccurate at best, and is so incredibly self-absorbed it’s hard, as a Native woman, to take seriously at times. i think it’s really short-sighted and selfish to claim indigenous ancestry and demand that others recognize your birthright to what you paint as a fossilized indigenous culture, while not also simultaneously aligning yourself with living indigenous communities. to my mind, as a reconnecting person, you don’t get to be Native and still not give a fuck about other Native people and what they are struggling with. moreover, indigenous cultures are not something that can just be melded into whatever you want (which is what she does)—ancestry does not give you the right to selectively pick and choose bits of a culture to appropriate or edit as you please.

i think both those problems are ultimately tied into a gross hyper-romanticization of mestizaje as the answer to some grand postcolonial borderlands question—theories of third spatiality, hybridity, and mestizaje have been tempting for a lot of postcolonial scholars because they allow for recognition of nuance and intermixing, but i personally don’t think that’s enough of a legitimation for an ideology that leaves a lot to be desired. a lot of people who romanticize third spaces, for example, do so with no recognition of the fact that for those of us that live in third space forms of survival and resistance because we don’t have a choice, it’s a life of hardship and struggle that often means physical and emotional needs go unmet—when the third space is your only option, there’s often not much you can do and it’s not as glamorous and revolutionary as everyone makes it out to be. hybridity to me seems similarly short-sighted—interrelations and intermixing are two different things and do we really need a vamped up melting pot vision in order to make the point that things are complicated and bound up in their relations with one another? getting back to Anzalduúa, i think the romanticization of mestizaje is especially egregious considering the lateral violence perpetrated against Natives previously discussed—Andrea Smith has written a critique of this that is basically arguing that Anzaldúa’s entire formulation of the mestiz@ as the person who travels between worlds and crosses boundaries is pinned on a theoretical imagination of Indian as Romantic & Prehistoric (especially oppressive re: gender & sexuality), that can only be updated and transformed into something liberatory by the mestiz@. that’s a pretty offensive implication to me.

i’m not doing these critiques justice, there’s plenty of scholarship that goes into this at great length. i don’t have the time to do your research for you, but there’s plenty of stuff out there if you make the effort to look for it. Natives don’t owe you an annotated bibliography every time they say something is offensive.

highyellahippie: photosbyfreeman: Los Angeles,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:32:49 -0400

highyellahippie:

photosbyfreeman:

Los Angeles, 2013

Yassssssss

my summer aesthetic is nip slip/almost nip slip.

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:30:25 -0400

v difficult to concentrate on work when you’re completely preoccupied by the question of...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:15 -0400

v difficult to concentrate on work when you’re completely preoccupied by the question of whether you want to take care of needing to get filled the fuck up by slapping someone around and then collaring and leashing them, or by getting held down and forced to take it.

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:07:38 -0400

"Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:06:03 -0400

“Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.”

- Warsan Shire (via warsanshire)

grrrllife: aamerrahman: At the ‘Bollywood’ themed...

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:05:12 -0400

Dear White Ladies, Wearing a sari takes a little more skill than just wrapping a piece of material around yourself over the top of a t-shirt while wearing random beads and dots on your head.

Oh snap. This dude actually dressed up as a genuine Raghead.

Nothing says 'Bollywood' more than a scarf and an ANCIENT EGYPTIAN EYE OF HORUS on your forehead now, does it?

I had to literally pull this guy off his flying carpet as he swooshed past me. In case you can't tell, his turban is actually a coiled up snake. Genius.

Look out, this bartender's serving up a lethal new cocktail called 'Racism'! Get it, he's dressed as a different type of 'Indian'! So subversive.

Well my brown skin is no match for this man's turban, multiple dots and layered t-shirt combo.

Wow. Just wow.

grrrllife:

aamerrahman:

At the ‘Bollywood’ themed industry party I went to last night, I decided to hold a ‘Best Costume’ contest. These are some of the finalists, who were all happy to have their photos taken. Click through for my comments.

some people. just, some people. ugh

pretty much just laughed for five hours straight. so worth tomorrow’s sleep deprivation, hours...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:25:11 -0400

pretty much just laughed for five hours straight. so worth tomorrow’s sleep deprivation, hours of being cold, and the trek to mile end in flip flops and a slutty mantop.

last night i realized that with this hair i actually NEVER look like a radqueer and this delights...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:02:23 -0400

last night i realized that with this hair i actually NEVER look like a radqueer and this delights me.

stoner femme loose ponytail bed party summer beach girls food convergence 2k13

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:21:51 -0400

"it’s sort of like joke-topping a bunch of assholes."

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:03 -0400

“it’s sort of like joke-topping a bunch of assholes.”

- sub-rosa on trolling performance artists

sub-rosa: this color combination is hideous...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:00:00 -0400

sub-rosa: this color combination is hideous...
me: doesn't that delight you!?
sub-rosa: NO this is hideous in a bad way. i need to make it hideous in a good way.

don draper i don’t give a flying fuck about your suicide-guilt feels. also i’m really...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:30:08 -0400

don draper i don’t give a flying fuck about your suicide-guilt feels.

also i’m really glad i didn’t watch this episode while blazed.

princessotto: smashtheplates: anyone has articles/essays about trans* masculin priviledge...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:42:31 -0400

princessotto:

smashtheplates:

anyone has articles/essays about trans* masculin priviledge stuff?

I’m trying to figure out the duality between oppressed as trans* but privileged as masculine.

signal boostin this! also, if we can’t name any zines about this, we should probably write something about this. i got all the feels bout havin dude privilege and what that means to me.

"The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:29:53 -0400

“The question why I would LET Willow cut her hair. First the LET must be challenged. This is a world where women, girls are constantly reminded that they don’t belong to themselves; that their bodies are not their own, nor their power or self determination. I made a promise to endow my little girl with the power to always know that her body, spirit and her mind are HER domain. Willow cut her hair because her beauty, her value, her worth is not measured by the length of her hair. It’s also a statement that claims that even little girls have the RIGHT to own themselves and should not be a slave to even their mother’s deepest insecurities, hopes and desires. Even little girls should not be a slave to the preconceived ideas of what a culture believes a little girl should be.”

- Jada Pinkett Smith (via chubby-bunnies)

for reals the only good thing about today is that sub-rosa is on a bus on her way here.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:08:37 -0400

for reals the only good thing about today is that sub-rosa is on a bus on her way here.

Femme is a queer specific term.

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:03:36 -0400

grrlyman:

Telling straight people they can ID as femme if they’re feminist is the same as telling them they can ID as queer if they’re kinky. Femme originated among trans women of color and lesbians.

It’s also pretty telling that anytime you ask a queer who thinks it’s fine for straight people to ID as femme if straight men can ID as bears and twinks they get all indignant. I think it’s related to how queer people won’t bat an eye if someone IDs as a queer and as a gay man but being a lesbian is considered backwards and less queer. Some terms are valued as queer specific terms because they’re most often used by men.