so yeah. a friend of mine is putting a call out for submissions for a zine concerning the appropriation of queerness. this is such a hard subject to write about because of gender identity politics and I’m having a really tough time communicating my feelings. so I guess I’ll write them out as a…
This was an interesting take…. musingssss
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YESSS. BABELYFE
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57YES. To trueee
~ Elise Nagy, “Exploding The Limitations: What Being a Femme Means to Me,” inourwordsblog.com (via queerintersectional)
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HOW TO DEAL WITH BEING CALLED OUT
From the January issue of
THINK AND DIE THINKING
YESYESYES.
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Thought this was fairly wize <3
But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.
We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)
YESSS i knew i wasnt the only person out there who was making an issue out of this
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There is so much truth in this… How to increase productivity and give us more free time? Thoughts?
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Trans* Umbrella
Trans*/Transgender: Someone who does not identify with their sex assigned at birth.
Two Spirit: Someone who fills one of the many mixed-gender roles prevalent in Native American communities.
Transfeminine/Transmasculine: Someone who identifies more female than male or more male than female.
Multigender: Someone who identifies with more than one gender (e.g. bigender).
Trans Man/Trans Woman: Someone who was female at birth but identifies as male/someone who was male at birth but identifies as female.
Gender Fluid: Someone whose gender changes.
Agender: Someone who does not identify with a gender.
Genderqueer: Someone who does not identify within the gender binary.
Identities Not Under The Trans* Umbrella:
Cisgender: Someone who is not trans*.
Drag performer: Someone who wears flamboyant clothes for entertainment value (can be trans*).
Crossdresser: Someone who wears clothes associated with the/a different gender (can be trans*).
Intersex: The presence of a less common combination of biological features that generally distinguish male and female (can be trans*).
From Trans Student Equality Resources
useful stuff :) i like the literal use of the umbrella.
I am a humyn… A persyn… With a hystory/queerstory/theirstory… my preferred (in the context of academic spaces* queer spaces* and spaces that people are down*) pronoun is singular they…. I associate with womyn who have herstories … and I like to hang out with folx when I write words a certain way. Its true, there are certain words that I spell funny… deal with it. But it confuses people, causes some people to be pissed off, and generally requires me to give some sort of justification. I ask so what? Why does it matter? Thats my question. It gets answered in different ways but for the most part I don’t like what they tell me. Some tell me it doesn’t matter so why do it, others tell me that I am fighting a cause that doesn’t make a different, and others just get uncomfortable and insult me.
But I would like to say that to me it matters, I understand that it is an academic fight, and I like to think that I don’t try to push my thoughts onto other people. I do not force people to spell things a certain way but I ask that people respect me when I do. These spellings are my way of being subversive, to introduce my thoughts on gender/sexuality/patriachy/race in my writing and speech. The “y” to me is a way of degendering language and reducing the impact that words such as HIStory, huMAN, MANkind, HIStorical, HE/SHE (binary pronouns), perSON etc have on academic understanding. To me these words can be made gender neutral in all contexts of my life. Whether it is in scientific papers, sociology papers, emails, posters ETC ETC. Gender neutrality and intentionality of spelling need not be restricted to solely “queer spaces” or “conscious spaces” because to do so is insulting to people outside of those “spaces” and forces me to create multiple selves. I do not like that so I refuse to do it and I am willing to deal with consequences that may result because at the end of the day it forces people to think about language. Language is powerful and can affect so many different aspects of folx lives so in my opinion its worth screwing with “correct” spelling and subverting the hegemony.
