January 2012
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“who says kids don’t know their sexual orientation as toddlers. i knew by the age...”
– www.ladykier.com (via notesladykier)
December 2011
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“Never had Madame Bovary been so beautiful as now. She had that indefinable...”
– Moustache.
Quoted from Madame Bovary within a speech for the prosecution in Flaubert’s obscenity trial.
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to say to...”
– Pat Parker, from “Movement in Black” via this amazing coming out story of Jean Melesaine (via queerfatfemme)
“The difference is privileging in literature a hero as opposed to a heroine. The...”
– If I may interject a text: Erica Jong’s subjectivity in Fear of Flying. And Alison Bechdel. Woolf. I bet there is a lot of scholarly work on what it means to fictionalize a personal/political reality and fashion “role models” for young (and not young) women. -beetnik
Reblogging...
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what happens if the only pronoun that makes sense...
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“The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of...”
– Chris Sims on Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via cleversimon)
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“My body is a temple where I’ve burned so many scriptures
I see smoke every time...”
– “Stay” by Andrea Gibson (via iniquities)
I know what femme is... →
[femme] “identity is complemented by the touch of a [minefield] butch body.”
-Out of the Inferno
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Well, there goes my vacation... →
Yo I need the one where someone says of Rose, “No wonder she still mourns that man.”
queershoulder:
Every Golden Girls episode ever. YES!
Femme Shark Manifesto →
curate:
“The Femme Sharks are a movement founded by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Zuleikha Mahmood to reclaim the power of femmes as fierce, tough, hungry girls who are the leaders and defenders of our communities. Pissed off at the stereotypes we keep running into inside and outside the queer community, that femme = weak, stupid, drama-laden, anorexic and looking like Barbie, in March...
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“I was originally copied by Margaret Thatcher who took my hairstyle, I was copied...”
– Dame Edna Everage, via Boy George
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Contact →
Lyrics of the song omitted from Rent: School Edition
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Texture
That’s not a moustache so much as some supralabial velvet.
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“I’m not sure that there is a queer aesthetic. I think aesthetic is personal and...”
– jd samson, revel and riot (via queeragripoetics)
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“I’m on the patch right now.
Where it releases small
dosages of approval...”
– Ellen Degeneres (via spencerseesit)
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via youveescaped)
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“Masculine courage is throwing yourself headfirst into danger, like jumping out...”
– Max Levant (via bonnienoire)
I wish I transformed like a Sailor Scout when I...
But you do. You do.
Everybody is so hung up on the matching game. The shoes have to match the bag, which matches the coat and dress: but the big question is: is it matching your soul?
-Janis Joplin
greenbrowngirl:
Then I’d put clothes on everyday instead of lounging around.
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GLITTER POLITIC: Dear Ashley →
In resisting normative femininity (its straitjacket of mandate, its slave labour a la Naomi Wolf) I am taking “femme” (shark) for myself and decoupling it from its origins.
I think a corresponding non-normative “chosen” non-sexist anti-violent (non hegemonic if you will) masculinity is available to all genders of people, but “butch” is not its name (yet). Butch is rich with history, meanings, and...
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Max Wolf Valerio interview →
Author of The Testosterone Files. From Bodies of Work magazine, via Susie Bright.
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