October 2011
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What's wrong with heteronormativity? | Meg Barker →
What is wrong with heteronormativity?
It leaves people feeling alienated and alone.
It is bad for LGBT people and other people who are outside of it.
It sets up an ‘us and them’ which enables homophobia, biphobia and transphobia to exist.
It is questionable whether the ‘normative’ form of heterosexuality actually is normal.
Our treatment of others should...
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caravaggia asked: Hello. So, you think my opinion about the different veils is disrespectful. What ? Just because I said it was the same thing ? Of course there are differences, of course it's not the same thing. But in the end, it's a religious accessory that women wear to partially or totally hide their hair/face -depending on the cases- : parts of the body that men of the same culture can show and must...
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I dressed for Rio: misterstibbons: I really do get... →
misterstibbons:
I really do get REALLY ANNOYED when people say “LGBT” and then go on to say, for example, “everyone should be respected regardless of sexual orientation.”
And you know,
that’s great, and I agree,
although that’s a weird way to phrase it, but
still a nice notion,
but
The T has literally nothing to do with sexual orientation.
There are lots of heterosexual trans...
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“Thus Dante’s motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage:...”
– Emma Goldman
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Help: What's the difference between pansexual and...
Clarification: I know what “pansexual” and “omnisexual” mean, and I know their difference from bisexuality. I’m looking specifically for the differences between pan and omni, in light of their similarities, since I don’t adequately understand them.
Both words mean “all-sexual” (pan is Greek and omni is Latin).
I know that there’s a difference...
The moon forest: My parents can’t understand why I... →
sakuraforest:
My parents can’t understand why I feel so offended and disgusted when my doctor told me I shouldn’t have kids or have a genetical plan because I have Asperger.
My parents are not looking to “cure” me, but they didn’t understand why I was deeply offended.
I don’t even want kids, I never wanted…
This is what eugenics looks like.
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Evan Rachel Wood: ‘No one explains bisexuality to... →
bisexual-community:
“I didn’t even know bisexuality was a thing until I heard actress Fairuza Balk talk about it when I was a kid. I was like: ‘Oh my God, you can like both – and that’s OK.’ It was revelation.”
It’s so great to see an actress who is so outspoken about her bisexuality. Awesomeness. That, and being on True Blood, OMG orgasmic :D
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Thoughts From The Peacock Angel: Vanilla Privilege →
thepeacockangel:
After reading a few articles on the daily effects of other forms of privilege, I decided to write a piece on a rarely talked about form of privilege, vanilla privilege. Obviously, there’s straight privilege, cis privilege, male privilege, white privilege, etc etc etc.
This post has been edited to fix some problems with language overlapping and neglecting the fact that queer...
“Trans people have often been described as those whose physical sex does not...”
– Emi Koyama, “The Transfeminist Manifesto” (via suzyxisntreal)
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“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via shakethecobwebs)
Meep
Seeing so many people being excited about stuff I write has been making me blush all day. SRSLY.
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Snippet #5: Internalized biphobia in intimate... →
This is from the chapter about monosexism and biphobia, from the sub-section about internalized biphobia (and the sub-sub section about internalized biphobia in intimate relationships). I wrote about three types of internalized biphobia inside intimate relationships; this is the second.
Similar to social settings, internalized biphobia might also influence people inside intimate...
I have a friend who is writing a scholarly paper...
ceasesilence:
handingoutstars:
Can anyone help her out? Reblog, reply, or send me a message. Thanks!
Signal boost.
I would look at stuff written by Leslie Feinberg. Just a hunch, though.
“Privileged people will demand facts. Statistics. Your stories about oppression?...”
– Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics (via amberlrhea)
so true.
(via so-treu)
and when you do give them stats, they end the discussion with an arbitrary insult
(via chocolatejigglypuff)
This is why I pretty much ignore everyone who asks for statistics. Go look them up your fucking self and...
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Jumping in: some differences and similarities...
Here’s my take:
Bisexual and pansexual identities often look the same:
Both bisexual and pansexual people might feel desire towards any amount of genders. People who feel desire towards people of more than one, more than two, many, multiple or all genders can identify as bisexual or as pansexual (or really anything else): The word people use to name their sexual identity does not predict...
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Tumblr friends, help me out
A few weeks ago there was a quote circulating around, of a bisexual celebrity person saying that she refuses to date other bisexuals. Could you point me out, please?
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Seriously how old were most of you in 2005
veganmudblood:
aspergersmomof2:
marikunin:
draggle:
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I turned 16 in ‘05. :/
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Interview with Alan Rickman and Jimmy Kimmel
JK: And you’re from…what part of England are you from? AR: Right in the middle of London. Right by Paddington Station. So if anybody’s coming in on the Heathrow Express, I’m a minute over the road. JK: They can stop by? AR: They can…there’ll be tea.
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Later!
<3 Alan Rickman
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“No, my problem is that the word “slut” has never felt like mine to reclaim....”
– Thoughts on Slutwalk from a Wheelchair
This. is. brilliant.
(via flutterflyinvasion)
You're Oppressing Me...With Science!!
veganmudblood:
Friend: So…you believe being gay is a choice? Who would ever choose that? Friend’s Roommate: Well they’re mislead by society. They’re ignorant. Friend: I don’t know if you can really say that because you’re not apart of an oppressed group. You don’t know how they feel. Friend’s Roommate: Yes I am! Friend: Really? What oppressed...
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Randomness from a queer, nerdy vegan...: When... →
veganmudblood:
IDGAF.
I don’t care if the animals are fed gourmet, organic food out of silver-plated troughs, sleep on Tempur-Pedic mattresses, have their nails painted, are given daily massages, bathed in Whirpool bathtubs, and sang to every night. I don’t give even a single shred of fuck that a little prayer is said before the life is literally drained from them.
It is domination. It is...
