Morning for the Osone Family (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1946)
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Femmeness is especially vilified because itâs seen as being connected to decadence and class-privilege. I know this from experience: if you bring five bucks to the thrift store, you can walk out with a total gem and look really good. It takes a good eye but you cultivate that from being without, like I did. You have to cultivate that skill, and you earn it by being able to feel really confident. Itâs a problematic notion because it also allows men and masculine people to put on a working class aesthetic: âLook at the one flannel I wear over and over again!â This isnât seen as performance, itâs seen as more authentic.
I experienced really fucked-up mean-girl dynamics in anarchist spaces, because there was a vying for social capital. There was really shitty and weird behavior. Iâm more focused on surviving and creating a sustainable lifestyle thatâs not just me crying at the end of every meeting. People were emotionally terrorizing, and I donât think itâs any coincidence that it happened to femme women more often. In political spaces, the Left demonizes femininity because it is associated with excess â as though all of these heterosexist men would listen to us if we came into meetings looking like shit. They wouldnât even hear us out if we didnât look fucking fierce.
*screams yes at this a thousand fucking times until i pass out*Â (via arabellesicardi)
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Behind the scenes of Capitol Hill Web Series S2 by creator and director, Wes Hurley. Photos by Bronwen Houck.
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Hello! I am a graduate student conducting research in Political Science. This is a preliminary survey Iâve written to try to see if using an online survey format would be useful for filling in some data gaps we have in our field and Iâm hoping to improve on it to use in later research. For now, I have this rough âdraftâ of a survey. If you could spare about 5 minutes and take this survey, Iâd really appreciate it, as it would really help me figure out the utility of this format and how to improve such a survey.
This survey is for EVERYONE! It doesnât matter how old you are or if you had sexual experiences before 18. Iâll need all kinds of participants! :)
Warning: This survey does have questions about sexual assault, though. Iâd really appreciate input from everyone but if itâll trigger you, then feel free to skip over this.
I need as many responses as possible in a short amount of time because of time constraints, so please, even if you do not take this survey, consider reblogging it so that others might take it.
Thank you! :)
Please note: This survey is not funded or official, meaning it is not endorsed by my institution, nor has it been looked over by anyone else. I am constructing a research proposal and have made this rough version for that purpose.
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My dad found me a disability activism pin from the 70sâŚaaaand I love it.
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Erica Schreiner - untitled video still from Dirty Pictures Š2014
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Sigismund Blumann
Seal Rocks and the Cliff House, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, c1910
Via the Cliff House Project
(for Dame de Pique)
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The first transgender suicide hotline in the US
For the first time, there is a hotline in the US that is staffed entirely by transgender people, to serve transgender people. Everyone in the trans community needs to be spreading this around. Lives could be saved.
You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860
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Any bar is a gay bar if you just believe in yourself.
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this weekend i am assisting on a shoot for a project starring some of our nation's most beloved drag queens, and a few weeks ago i recieved a letter saying i got into college so i think i am moving to olympia in the spring to study visual arts and media studies. it seems to me that things are coming together
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