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gender opinions 

good morning, pronouns don't inherently indicate gender

How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot -

feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingb

#oligarchy #kleptocracy

old man: link, go get blessing quick
link: I'm figuring out the secrets of a good mushroom stew

verso almost exclusively publishing the worst kind of pomo idealism is really funny, too me

we most certainly did not have a "free press" in america for trump to ruin. sorry to ruin your "left"

the only people critical of american foreign policy are the party organs of communist parties. call me when that changes.

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cool thing about yelp is they now first show you random shit that paid money to get that spot instead of anything relevant to your search

birth, horrific 

Reminder that Stuart Little's human mother gave birth to him in the book version

The Q word 

Queer theorists do two different things when they work with a text: They either look for evidence of historical queer practices, or they produce a queer reading of it.

In the first case, "queer" is useful because it highlights the ambiguity we must grapple with when we study eras that predate our concepts of sexuality or gender. When we say a medieval painting expresses the painter's "homosexual desire", we project the concept of homosexuality onto someone who never encountered it.

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The Q word 

@garfiald
I haven't heard the word queer used pejoratively in years. I stopped even thinking of it as a slur. I only see people self-identifying online with it anymore.

The Q word 

@garfiald @Zoe yeah on tumblr its a lot of terfs and like really naive teens who oppose it but they get really fucking mad when people self identify as it for a lot of reasons most of which are because they're lesbian separtists

The Q word 

@garfiald tumblr lgbt people militantly opposed to the word and who try and convince people to stop identifying it say shit like "queer is just the politically correct way to say lgbt so that's why I oppose it " unironically

The Q word 

For me, this is the best, maybe the only reason, we reclaim slurs. I call myself "gay" and "queer" so that when people tell me "What are you, gay?" (which they have more often than they've called me "queer") I can reply "yes, I am."

"Yes, I am a fucking queer."

For me, just typing that feels incredible. My oppressor's weapon falls limply from his hand. What he was menacingly waving just a second ago has turned to rainbow dust, and now he's all covered in rainbow colours everywhere.

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America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
-- Peter Kropotkin

#anarchism #quote #bot

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