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thelionthebitchandtheshelf reblogged
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thelionthebitchandtheshelf reblogged
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Blue Room
Suzanne Valadon
1923
Me: i should die i should die i should die... Me: gets flu Me: this is not what I meant
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Deconstructed Nature Portraits, Vicki Rawlins
Chicago-based artist Vicki Rawlins constructs whimsical portraits of enigmatic, legendary women using flowers, greenery, sand and other organic objects. These unconventional works of art are captivating not only for their creativity but also for their ephemeral journey to creation and destruction. Rawlins has prints available of her works at http://sistergolden.com.
haribo-hating myself, 2017 - 2012 = terrible shit, too scared to do what i love
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Screenshotted this thread because you all need to see it.
(Cis LGB, I’m expecting you to reblog this.)
Little Light:
Let us assume that our opponents are competent and have been studying our defenses for some time, looking for vulnerabilities to exploit. They put out little feints and test attacks, seeing who will defend who, who can be divided off from the group, and so on. We’ve seen this. All of these questions they need answers to: will Jews defend Muslims? Will Asians support Black struggle? Where can the wedges be put in? The Alt-Right 4Chan types are always talking about observing and infiltrating online anti-oppression communities for intel and laughs. All these little tests. What if they make up a pretend pedophilia orientation? Will people defend it? Will they tight and divide over it?
One vulnerability they’ve consistently turned up is transmisogyny. Lots of groups can be induced to vilify or wish away trans women. Useful! Remember a little while ago when Milo put out that petition? “Remove the T from LGBT”? They watched who signed and promoted that thing. It was couched in anti-oppression boilerplate. And look! Cis gay men promoted it. Some feminists and womanists promoted it. Useful intel. They learned helpful info there: many cis LGB people were raring to turn on trans people. They’d even say it was for their own protection. They counted up who signed on, who elaborated on it, who was excited about it. I’m looking at you, TERFs and enablers, in particular. (They even discovered that some fanatical anti-trans feminists would happily join forces with homophobic Christians, to hurt trans women.) Nobody thought that T-out-of-LGBT petition was going to DO anything. There’s nobody who DECIDES that. It was a solidarity test balloon. So these laughing nihilists went looking—along many lines–for cracks in solidarity, joints in the armor, people who could be attacked 1st.
Why do I point this out now? Because this week the rumor mill floated a general anti-LGBTQ EO or bill was coming, & they gauged opposition. Supposedly they decided that opposition to this anti-LGBTQ legislation would be too much for now, and put it in the not-yet column. And yet: Now the word is they’re paring down to a specifically anti-trans EO. One focused on legal documents, probably framed as for nat'l security. (After all, mismatched documents are fraud, right? Terrorists could be using fake ID. And there’s all that voter fraud to address. Right?)
Previous Intel operations (& polls) have told them that the majority of the country has turned to support LGB rights—but NOT trans rights. They know from watching our intra-movement arguments online that there’s a long history of cis LGB folks throwing trans folks under the bus. They have tested to see if cis LGB people will readily abandon trans people to save themselves. (Yes.) If they’ll outright attack us. (Yes.) They’ve tested if there are blocs w/in the cis LGB community so dedicated to hurting trans people that they’ll ally wtthe right wing. (Yes.) They’ve watched some of these anti-trans fanatics STILL obsessing over eradicating us, prioritizing that, even while the country is on fire. Lo and behold: the regime floats anti-LGBTQ legislation, withdraws it for now. Now they’re floating anti-trans legislation. Right on time.
Their research indicates that the general public will happily let trans people burn first as expendable. That cis LGB people will, too. The plan? To remove our ability to get legal ID documents. There goes voting, travel, med. care, having an answer to “your papers, please.” That and support for keeping us out of public bathrooms, away from schools, away from gendered spaces, out of jobs and housing. Public life.
I’m saying this because they have good reason to believe they’re right that they can come for us and no one will stop them. Their little intel operations indicate that not only will no one stop them hurting trans people, many will even help. Even cis LGB people. I’m saying this especially for everyone who gave them reason to believe this. Who looked the other way when trans lives were on the line.
When they come for us. (They will come for us. They are about to come for us.) Prove them wrong. Prove them wrong. Prove them wrong. Please.
Remember that the specter of trans women was already a useful wedge issue & get-out-the-vote driver in the 2016 campaign. There’s precedent. We will be used as a weapon and a vulnerability against the rest of you for as long as our opponents know we won’t be protected by the Left. One of our lessons from fighting the anti-Muslim E0s in the last week is this: we have to deny them every victory. Each one counts. Whatever we teach them about who we will leave behind will be used to hurt all of us. We have to show them we will abandon no one. not ever Now is a time when it is clear & stark: solidarity saves us. Together, we outnumber them. Together, we can win. Let us not be broken apart. All of you responding with pledges to have our backs: thank you. Bring your friends on board. As Octavia Butler said: So be it. See to it.
Their strategy is simple: divide and conquer.
And there’s a saying about that, something like divided we fall.
Don’t fall.
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For a while I wore baggy earth tone clothes because the last man I loved would strike me in the face if anyone looked at me so all my clothes were too big until one day I thought, you know what, no one is hitting me in the face right now, I’m going to buy this red dress from a mass market store, I’m going to spend money I don’t
have to do it, and so I did, and I went to a party on one of the Avenues feeling fancy and looking sexy and my friends were there and there was a balcony that wrapped around a corner and overlooked Central Park and people complimented me and my dress while I drank wine and I think there was coke; if there was coke I did that too.
One of our group was a man I’ll call S. who people thought was handsome in a James Dean way I guess if James Dean had lived past when James Dean had lived and had accrued enough alcohol in his liver that his skin had that kind of gray, puffy look alcoholics might get although S. was only around 30 at the time. We left the party
to go to a second location and somehow it was only the two of us in the cab, me and S. Although I remember saying to a friend, please ride with us, I get how things happen when people are divvied up amongst cabs. Cabs are fancy and decisions have to be made and there was probably coke and S. always got just what S. wanted.
In the cab, S. kept trying to move in on my mouth with his mouth and so I turned away, and he was okay with that, I think he didn’t realize that was a no, only that he kept missing. Look at you, he said. In that dress. Don’t you know I have a girlfriend? I did know and sometimes I felt sorry for her because, even if he didn’t strike her in
the face, S.’s skin was kind of gray for 30 and she seemed to tend to him the way I imagined 1950’s women tended to their partners, helping them out of their shoes when drunk, emptying the ashtrays while they typed their tragic and male American wonderpieces. The next thing I knew, S. dove at me, his hand quick between my legs.
I think it probably took a moment for me to realize what was going on, as often happens when a man is sexually assaulting me, so before I knew it his fingers were on my vulva and if he’d been less drunk and more coordinated his fingers would have been inside me but luckily he was clumsy and not fully committed to the action
and when I went to move his hand away he let me move his hand away. I made some light chatter in the cab to keep him occupied until we got to the second location and it was only when we arrived there that I allowed myself to feel anything at all, though I couldn’t tell you what it was I felt as I still don’t know what it was that I felt.
I think I waited to tell anyone what had happened but S. continued to follow me around the second location, a friendlier one really, my friend’s apartment, until my friend kicked him out for hounding me, and I was relieved and grateful, and embarrassed about my sexy body in my red dress. My friend walked a very drunk
and always gray S. to the subway where he passed out and rode the #2 line from the Bronx to Brooklyn back to the Bronx back to Brooklyn all night long and someone stole his wallet because how could they not and then the story became poor S. got so drunk his wallet was stolen! and he’s really a very disturbed genius, someone help him!
My friend said I should talk to him so I went to his place of work, which was behind a desk outside an art gallery and the chair faced sideways so I had to turn my body to face him. I said, Do you remember what happened? and he said no and I said, you grabbed my pussy in the cab and he said, Well come on! Don’t act like you’re not
always flirty and seductive and I tried to quietly sort out if I was always flirty and seductive. I ended up apologizing to S. saying I’m sorry you had to leave the party and that your wallet got stolen and he said it’s okay, though he avoided me after that and told our friend that he couldn’t respect me because I’m not a serious enough person.
Source: therumpus.net
Under more ordinary circumstances, the cover of our Anniversary Issue—marking 92 years—would feature some version of the monocled dandy Eustace Tilley. This year, as a response to the opening weeks of the Trump Administration, particularly the executive order on immigration, we feature John W. Tomac’s dark, unwelcoming image, “Liberty’s Flameout.”
Source: newyorker.com
No offense but when will a nice boy with a pretty smile and good arms carry me away from this bullshit
Librarians must resist trumpism
Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.
Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.
For libraries and librarians, that means:
1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements
2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level
3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same
4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community
5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk
These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.
ok but that sign is SO COOL. It is illegal - fucking fuck - for a library to say it has been approached by the FBI. The workaround is that a library can say they have not been approached until, ya know, that’s a lie and they take down the sign. That is also actually why a lot of libraries no longer keep records of what a person checks out. Like they take broad stats but a lot of computer programs don’t even have the capacity to log what a person has checked out. You can’t disclose what you don’t have. tldr, librarians can be awesome when we stop doing this neutrality lie.
longquark
beautiful, subversive