November 2010
30 posts
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“Sometimes it feels with genderfuck that people take the good parts and run. It...”
– “genderfuck: an evening with lian and zoey”, Germinate, issue 1, 2010. Germinate is the biannual periodical of the Australian Student Environment Network.
I would be keen to hear what people think about this.
(via ourcatastrophe)
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Walcome to Malbourne
ourcatastrophe:
Walcome to Malbourne
A curious transformation is happening to Victoria’s vowels, and it’s not going unnoticed. For a while now, many Victorians have been confusing “el” sounds with “al” sounds, so that celery sounds like salary, pellet like palate and telly like tally. In other words, Victorians don’t know if they’re Allan or Ellen.
The tendency to pronounce “el” as “al”...
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The problem I have with the word 'douchebag'
jhameia:
genderbitch:
sheresists:
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn:
girl-germs:
supersoygrrrl:
dr-grumbles:
theradfeminist:
Bitch.com, the corresponding website to the devout feminist magazine, has something called “The Douchebag Decree”, naming the douchebag of the week (or year, or something).
An employee of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a feminist organization...
Tabula Rasa: HIPSTER CULTURE: BREEDING WHITENESS →
sheresists:
thedancingflame:
tabularasae:
I recently reblogged a post entitled “Hipster Racism,” which was essentially on how white hipsters perpetuate racist language in an “ironic” way. The post was good, albeit a little underdeveloped, but hipster racism is something that I’m passionate about discussing and addressing—seeing as I, myself, am a black “hipster,”—and I figured that ...
Henry Yu: Why Macleans and racism should no longer... →
The thing is, this meme comes just as Canada is seeking more international students. The largest international student market in the world is Asian - the larger economies are both generating enough wealth to fund an overseas education for students, and demanding tertiary educated workers.
Wonder if the drumming up of racism in Canada will mean a similar outcome for international students as the...
Extravagant Dissent: Defying Social Practice →
reblog if you want to see same-sex marriage rights...
ladyvivianemae:
dietcokeproteinshakes:
deliciousresentment:
grippedyoutight:
landsharkkidd:
ihateyoukay:
I just had a massive rage about this.
oh.my.god. i want this so bad!
please. I have to live here!
I don’t even live here but YES!
automatic reblog. YES ALREADY.
I definately want to see same sex and trans rights for marraige in Australia. But the majority of the country...
In defence of stripping and sex work →
clownyprincess:
I really wish people would STOP talking about choice like it’s a dichotomy. Stop that shit. Stop. I had to have this conversation with someone else recently. I myself am not in the industry by ‘choice’ and yet I am. If I could choose to be doing something else right now, I would be - and that something else is very specific and I am working towards it, but it’s going to take time...
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In defence of stripping and sex work →
clownyprincess:
note-a-bear:
thefeministhub:
(Warning: link has images that are likely NSFW)
In light of the recent question we received about feminists enjoying/supporting porn (which I answered here, and Renee answered here), I wanted to share this article. I highly recommend reading the entire thing. It isn’t about pornography, per se, and it’s just one woman’s opinion, of course, but...
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“One of my biggest problems when I was vegan was the intense focus on the...”
– The Non-Practicing Vegan | a heterodox approach to ethics and consumption
via Claire
Vandana Shiva - Time to end war against the earth... →
What Was the Hipster? -- New York Magazine →
via ourcatastrophe
challyzatb asked: What's your favourite saying?
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A cultural appropriation puzzle
tiaramerchgirl:
ardhra:
tiaramerchgirl:
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The only cultural appropriation going on here is by that white tourist wearing the salwar suit.
Appropriation is about power, not cultural artefacts.
That photo was taken in Bangladesh, where it would have been her obligation to dress like the locals do out of respect. When I go back there and wear jeans and a fatwa top I stand out really...
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It makes sense
rabbitarmy:
The trans community’s marked by violence - so many of us have experienced it, live with it, and so many of us die from it. When we hear that one of us have died, we remember the violence we faced, the threats, the fear we live with. And yet, whenever a trans person is murdered, the very first thing we trans people have to do is sort through the layers and layers of transphobic...
Reblog if you can never tell if someone likes you...
blackamazon:
dude
STORY OF MY LIFE
I also have to catch myself out on the “do they dislike me or are they just stressed” factor.
A cultural appropriation puzzle
tiaramerchgirl:
This is actually based on true experience, and I’d like some thoughts from people interested in issues of cultural representation and appropriation - this reflects my struggles that I still haven’t gotten anywhere near resolving.
Growing up as a Bangladeshi Muslim in Malaysia, I was often told that I was “doing Islam wrong” because Bangladeshis have a subtly different method of...
