June 2011
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The Danish School Bag.
31 May 2011
A tribute to the Sabroe & Stephensen Globetrot #1233, otherwise known in the United States as the “Danish School Bag”, imported to the US, beginning in 1968, by a man named John Reynolds, and sold through a store in Upper Manhattan owned by a woman named Anna Youree and called “The Chocolate Soup”.
In the 1980’s, Chocolate Soup ran an ad every week...
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I want tears, I want rain, if that’s what leads me back to you, even if that means feelin’ the pain, if that’s what we gotta do. Let it fall apart, come on and break my heart, yeah, break it right in two, ‘cause I don’t wanna smile if that means losin’ you…I want tears…
May 2011
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Something I have to get off my chest...
31 May 2011
Last week, I was hanging out with a girl I know at a local bar. She’s super nice, but she’s only an acquaintance, really, so she hasn’t had much opportunity to grill me about my transition. As she proceeded down that most invasive of paths (to which I smiled and patiently answered, despite the fact that inside, every time this happens, I end up seething about it...
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Womanist Musings: Whiteness As Default
From Renee at Womanist Musings:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2011/05/whiteness-as-default.html
(Note from Gemma: Read the linked article by Tami at What Tami Said, as well. Hat tip to Monica Roberts at TransGriot for the link.)
Tami has a great article about White people feeling excluded from conversations about diversity that I really think that you should check out. This article struck a ...
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Sooner or later, you’re gonna come around, and you’ll be sorry when you figure out that I was always everything that you needed. Sooner or later, you’re gonna wish you had me; yeah, you’re gonna wish you had me.
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Wow. That Hornitos ad on Hulu is really FUCKED UP.
I can just imagine the jackasses sitting around in a board room screening the hard work of their ad agency and giving themselves high fives.
It’s important to remember that when these types of commercials make it all the way through the chain of production to broadcast, that it is no accident. It is representative of an entrenched patriarchal misogyny that treats women’s bodies as if...
That smug, superior attitude you get from people...
File under, “Things that make me want to stab people in the face.”
abigq:
I’d really like a fantasy novel/game where there are no princes/princesses/kings to reinstate their lost kingdom or somesuch. How about one where we establish a parliamentary democracy or republic instead?
Truth.
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WatchLipstick, pretty face, and maybe you’ll notice something different ‘bout me, different ‘bout me…
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Crazy Ride - Michelle Branch - Michelle Branch Videos
Goodnight, big moon. Sweet dreams, baby. If I could have one wish tonight, it would be that you’ll always keep, keep the starlight in your eyes…
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Some days I get exasperated with the fact that...
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So, I was at karaoke tonight, and this girl gets...
I never thought I’d see someone get up a do that at a karaoke night. Prends garde à toi!
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Response to the Dallas Voice.
28 May 2011
Re: http://www.dallasvoice.com/transgender-trannsexual-power-words-determination-1078193.html
I feel the need to clear up a few misconceptions here. There is no “vagueness” in the legislation that has been passed in this country the guarantees the equal protection of the rights of gender variant people. The general form that such anti-discrimination legislation has taken...
“A rape culture is a culture of intimidation. It keeps women afraid of being...”
– Emilie Buchwald, “Raising Girls for the 21st Century” in Transforming a Rape Culture, ed. by E. Buchewald, P. Fletcher and M. Roth, Milkweed Editions, 1993.
(via ceedling)
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Who Would Throw Out a Perfectly Good Human?
28 May 2011
My friend and former classmate, writer, actor, Man About Town, and Generally Good Egg Cas Marino, posted this story yesterday as a Note on his Facebook page. I hope you will all read it and share it with your friends. After Cas’ story are a few comments of my own.
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Who Would Throw Out a Perfectly Good Human?
by Cas Marino
I pass two types of beggars countless times each...
PEOPLE
nimself:
eateroftrees:
Women are not treated shittily because of their vaginas. They are treated shittily because they’re women. Women without vaginas are treated vastly shittier than women with vaginas, and, conveniently, YOU’RE CONTRIBUTING TO THIS WHEN YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT.
^^This.
Fictional Supercorporations:
unnomjuste:
jwisser:
I’m looking for companies set on Earth or in our future, so companies from Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, or the like don’t make the list. I’m also avoiding companies from comics (like Stark Industries and Wayne Enterprises). Please reblog with corporations I missed!
Omni Consumer Products (Robocop)
Weyland-Yutani (Alien/Predator)
Blue Sun (Firefly)
U.S. Robots/U.S....
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The Most Important Things You Need To Know.
“Je pense, donc je suis” - René Descartes, Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences (1637)
The basis for all Reason is very simple, an assertion that Existence exists. To say that Existence does not exist is a nullity, a self-negating proposition. Because doing otherwise would be meaningless, we can agree that following from this...
“The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to...”
– Chris Hedges - Why the United States Is Destroying It’s Education System (via drinkthe-koolaid)
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Natura vitis omnibus appertinet, pro praesidium...
I have breasts.
blackenedbutterfly:
cassket:
I didn’t know what to post.
I have breasts too, it’s okay.
Awesome! Me three! Breasts FTW!
derosnec:
gemmaseymour:
derosnec:
gemmaseymour:
This would be an interesting cartoon, except for one thing…the woman on the left is not going to be beaten to death because she refuses to bare that much of her body in her native culture, while the woman on the right is quite likely to suffer extremely painful, if not fatal, consequences, for refusing to keep her entire body covered in her...
“For college graduates under the age of 25, finding stable work is a particular...”
– Moving Home: When College Grads Face Uncertain Futures (via robot-heart-politics)
Tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 1989…
(can’t wait to see how many people get this one!)
Wait, I have one more smartass comment
jonaki:
gemmaseymour:
jonaki:
meravie:
jaded16india:
One thing I find incredibly annoying is the need for almost every other white western feminist to cover female foeticide in India — and in the next breath mention a similar practice in China, because we’re both exotic and therefore totes interchangeable — and to use terms like an ‘endangered species’, ‘dying race’ and then profess the...
Wait, I have one more smartass comment
jonaki:
meravie:
jaded16india:
One thing I find incredibly annoying is the need for almost every other white western feminist to cover female foeticide in India — and in the next breath mention a similar practice in China, because we’re both exotic and therefore totes interchangeable — and to use terms like an ‘endangered species’, ‘dying race’ and then profess the ‘profound sadness’ that so...
pastimperfection:
“I don’t want to trivialize the inhumane horrors that African slaves endured on slave ships destined for the Americas. But after a recent airplane trip, sitting tightly next to my neighbor in steerage seats, I feel the discomfort and pain endemic to the current air experience has certain curious similarities. Ever notice how similar the seating plans of airplanes resemble the...
Things that shouldn't be risky but are because I'm...
eins-zwei-drei-vier:
ftmark:
My baby pictures
Old IDs
Stories about my youth
Being around family
Getting a snack, while naked, in my shared apartment
Peeing
Always
Video from before my voice changed (“how old were you when This was recorded, like, 12?” “…18.”)
Tight shirts
Tight anything
Being topless (“So… how’d you get the scars?” “Bear-Shark fight…?”)
Grinding
Getting sacked
...
Mélanie Frappier on the necessity of conflict, as...
vitaminjon:
House and Socrates. Two cases, same symptoms. House’s best friends describe him as rude, arrogant, and offensive. He never misses a chance to sarcastically pick people apart. He refuses any administrative or clinic duty. His sharp mind has made him a leading expert in diagnostic medicine, yet he doesn’t write up his medical cases for journals; the “ducklings” – Foreman, Cameron,...
OH GOD I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE
eateroftrees:
I put on music and was like “D: I think this overuses dynamic range compression. HOW CAN PEOPLE USE SUCH TERRIBLE MASTERING?”
….yeah.
(And my headphones were like… $40 with a warranty. Yeeeeep I think I’m one of those people. Fuck.)
:P
I love you!
Seriously, though, what amazes me, as a professional musician and audio engineer, is that there are any albums at all out there...
For all the people who complain that feminists...
onallfoursforgryffindors:
I’ve never met someone who has actually had this happen to them. They just know for sure that it occurs.
Likewise, when people say that feminists will judge/mock/harass you for getting married/being a stay-at-home mom/choosing a typically “feminine” career, they usually don’t have any first hand experience of that occurring. Or, if they do, it was one chick who was...
nimself:
yemeyana:
Why are we even equating “don’t treat animals horribly” with “don’t eat meat”? Are we letting the words of a ridiculous minority (evangelical vegans) get in the way of a just cause (animal rights) because of some implicit association? Because i cannot get behind that.
Of course we are. I mean, come on, this is the internet, if we can’t get riled up and attack people who...
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (via cassket)
MtF Swimwear help?
searching4glamour:
I’m debating on whether to get shorts or bikini bottoms when I go shopping for swimwear. Am paranoid things might… fall out, in my bikini bottoms… O.o I don’t really want to tuck in water.
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The general consensus of most trans women I’ve talked with about the subject is: Get both. Wear a pair of cute board shorts over your bikini bottoms. The bikini bottoms will hold...
