May 2012
40 posts
“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...”
– (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com
Fifty Shades of Anaïs Nin.
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Keep writing.
Write it with your bones, with your sweat, with your kisses.
Write it with shoulders colliding and tangled knees.
Write it from thousands of miles apart.
Write it from the opposite sides of the room.
Write with a whisper, with sighs, with the words that are stuck in your throat.
Write from where you ache, where there used to be fingerprints, where it’s hollow.
Write...
Black Girl Dangerous: 10 Things Us Queers (And the... →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
I think I’m a pretty self-reflective person. I think I try really hard to listen and learn and grow. I like the idea of evolving. Some days I evolve more than other days. Some days I do the opposite of evolving. Which, I guess, is still evolving, but in less desirable ways.
The…
Passion for Justice
From Carter Heyward
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one’s friends and enemies.
Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to...
On the Queerness of Self Love
“Straightness/heteronormativity sets up roles for men and women that serve a capitalistic agenda more than the building of loving relationships. The script is simple; find a member of the “opposite sex”, date, get married, buy a house, have kids and do all of this as an individual family unit. Our culture will sell you the tools to properly achieve these ends, to properly conform to gender...
Banksy's celebrating the Jubilee
The artwork – complete in Banksy’s staple stencil – features a small boy bent over a sewing machine from which the artist has apparently attached Union Jack bunting to the hands of the portrait. As Britain gears up to a summer of celebrating the London Olympics, cultural Olympic festival and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, this is a darker comment on the production values and expense of all...
Radical faeries pt 1: cultural policing, cultural...
Photo by Ruth DeSouza
Great writing:
Being a complex person, there are few if any times that I am in spaces that reflect every part of me and what I value. People ask me a lot why I travel so much, and invariably the best answer I have is that I haven’t found anywhere that reflects all of what I need in one place. So I travel. I engage with certain people and communities for certain things,...
Dave Writes Things: Objection to a Wedding →
This was originally performed at an actual wedding, but I just want to clarify that I was asked to do so. Karina and Taylor are wonderful and brave and I am honored to have been given this opportunity, and I promise not to do this at your wedding unless you also ask me to.
I posit the…
Thinking today of the many friends with links to Fiji. Remembering that on May 14, 1879 the first indentured labourers were brought to Fiji. Exactly 108 years later, Fiji had its first military coup against a government where for the first time the descendants of indentured labourers were represented. Thinking too of the the British indentured labour scheme, which sought to replace slave labour...
The radical history of mother's day
“We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure...
Editor’s Rejection Letter
Best rejection letter I have ever seen!
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR IDEALIZED EMPLOYEES
“Sociologists have observed that employment in the U.S. is largely structured around an assumption that the worker has no family responsibilities. The ideas that an employee should be able to work during non-school hours, stay late when needed, take off time for their own illness but never anyone else’s, for example, all presume that the workers have either no children or someone else...
STAR WARS DEPICTED WITH TRADITIONAL MEXICAN ART
Seriously awesome!
Diane Revoluta: Something is rotten in the state... →
dianerevoluta:
Yesterday somewhere between 2000-5000 people marched in Wellington against the government’s plans to partially sell state assets. This followed a similar sized march in Auckland last weekend and a week-long hikoi starting in Cape Reinga. After last year’s record low voter turn out, it would seem…
Black Girl Dangerous: Love, QPOC Style →
blackgirldangerous:
by Mia McKenzie
Love is challenging in all its forms. Familial love, love in friendship, love in romance. Love in our relationships with ourselves. There are all sorts of definitions for love, all sorts of ideas about what love is. In All About Love, bell hooks talks about love “as the…
Off the grid
Photographer Eric Valli has assembled an absolutely stunning series of images, documenting the lives of people who have decided to live out their lives “Off the Grid.
http://www.ericvalli.com/index.php?/stories/off-the-grid/
