December 2011
38 posts
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
5 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...
– (via hugoschwyzer)
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
I love butch girls. Girls with slick, shiny, barbershop haircuts, trimmed so...
– Tristan Taormino (via vivelesfemmes)
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
I have a problem with the idea that everyone must be loud, enthusiastic,...
– Enthusiastic Consent Should Honor Quiet Communication, Too « Sex Positive Activism (via frompastmetofutureme)
2 tags
SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT
“GEORGE ORWELL’S “SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT” In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot, but if a European woman went through the...
2 tags
Women's College Problems #350
womenscollegeproblems:
When your friends at Smith or Mount Holyoke have Mountain Day, and you have Midterms.
2 tags
"Throwing in the towel" Ivan E. Coyote →
Sometimes you say things without really thinking. Sometimes you write things without really thinking on your Facebook status and 900 people read them. It all started with the towels. Not just any towels, mind you. These were brand new, fresh out of the laundry, white, pristine, and…
2 tags
Radical Desires: Why Education is Queer Work →
When I speak of queer education, many seem to fear some kind of perverse melding of sex and the nurturing of kids. Yet to me, more than sex, more than sexuality, more than gender transgression, queerness at its heart is about desire: The desire to be whole, to live in liberation, to tear down the borders and boundaries which prevent richer interactions, to celebrate and locate joy where joy has...
1 tag