How a millionaire slumlord got sweetheart government deals to maintain armed forces housing and then left them to rot -
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nraGsNaqI6g/the-corvias-group.html
the only people critical of american foreign policy are the party organs of communist parties. call me when that changes.
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.
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 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.
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
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off