July 2012
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I just don't like autobiography ok
or perzines for that matter
for some reason this is something that comes up a lot and I’m starting to get unnecessarily defensive about it
I don’t think liking personal narratives means you have better politics
it might mean you’re a better person on an individual level but I spit on the individual, so
feminists against memoir feminists against personal experience feminists...
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wait
is it supposed to be parsed “sorry [that] I’m not sorry”?
I always thought it was “sorry/I’m not sorry”
wavering, uncertain, fractured, probably defiant but possibly not, as opposed to OH SNAP, you weren’t expecting this sentence construction, were you buddy
INQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW: how/would you disambiguate “sorry I’m not...
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Jay-Z’s '99 Problems,' Verse 2: A Close Reading... →
obviously the legal advice here is irrelevant outside the States, but this is a great read for jay-z fans.
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Anonymous asked: your not supposed to talk about fight club. .
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thesavagesalad:
lol shes now tellinh me that the consumption of chicken is similar to racism bitch please youre eating qinoa
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Another lovely YouTube message:
lifeisliterallylimited:
don’t get it twisted i know you are a terrorist, i knew it the moment i checked out your blog.. You have an anti-israel post, i know all muslims are terrorists and i will tell you why. Muslims are taught to hate jews from childhood, there are countless videos on youtube from muslims calling for the destruction of of israel (a people), they chant that the end will not...
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ok also; I do think I was very lucky. but I was mumbling “oh, what a nice driver” when I found out that the driver had stayed on the scene and given his details and my best mate was like “no, he did the bare minimum”. she’s right, of course.
but in comparison he does seem really really nice. when I was in the emergency department one of the nurses told me there was...
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well, you should see the other guy
late last night I got hit pretty hard by a car while I was on my bike. I was making a legal lane change, but the driver didn’t see me indicate and by the time I realised what was happening it was too late to get out of the way. it is a bit of a blur and I think I was knocked out for a little while. fortunately for me, my housemate and another friend happened to drive by as it was...
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the main reason I still describe myself as an anarchist is because I think it’s absolutely crucially important to be able to think “this is a really terrible thing” without the corrolary then being either “let’s give the power to do something about it to a detached institution with a monopoly on the legal use of violence” or “let’s do nothing”...
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“The discussions that sex workers have, for example, within the Rose Alliance sex...”
– Frederick Federley, May 12, 2011, member of the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament), speaking out in opposition against a bill in the Swedish Riksdag that would double the jail time under the Swedish Sex Purchase Act. Federley was the only member of the Riksdag to vote against the bill, which passed 282...
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“If you get really angry you’ll turn completely red…and then your...”
– tilly, age 8.
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BENJAMIN McCULLUGH-DENNIS,...
everythingbutharleyquinn:
So I got in touch with Molly, the woman who was raped by Benjamin McCullugh-Dennis as she made it clear she had little support from the community at large in what she was doing so I wanted to indicate my support to her as well as my willingness to be involved in spreading information/postering around Newtown and such.
Through her and information that has been posted...
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Ben Has Left The Building
lucy-loveless:
For anyone who’s following the public-outing of rapist Benjamin McCullagh-Dennis in Sydney, and his (laughable) “willing engagement” in a community-based accountability process (which was requested by the survivor a second time after being silenced by his community when she wanted to report the crime to the police) … Ben has ONCE AGAIN left town to go on vacation, breaking his...
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I do have to get this off my chest though:
takemetoponyisland:
ourcatastrophe:
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K, so I don’t really hear this that much. I’ve seen it around, mostly on blogs by trans women talking about FAAB trans people being privileged over MAAB trans people. and I have seen the occasional “FAAB people are privileged over MAAB people in the queer community” which has made me cringe and think what the hell are they talking about.
but do...
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Anonymous asked: you stepped up to give a completely insensitive critique of some trans women's discourse without any careful regard to the reason its become a thang. And your allies in that practice came to support you- you got what you asked for. And I agree that 'FAAB privilege' is bullshit, but can you be a little more condescending with it? its like, you know this didn't come out of...
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on being mean
I rarely see my (much older) older sister. it’s kind of a weird experience when I do because she is unquestionably taller, broader, brasher, more aggressive, bossier, wittier, snappier, more given to inflammatory unqualified hyperbole, and more easily and vocally irritated than me — but I am all these things as well, assuming adequate sleep and food, and in fact these are the first...
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goddammit
transisbullshit:
Applying “cis” privilege to females actually is the same as saying there’s female privilege though. Neither exists. And trans guys don’t necessarily have male privilege, they only get that if they are perceived as males. Your last sentence is great though.
no
stop
I was afraid this would happen
being associated with people like you is why people are afraid of talking about...
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in things that are making me nauseous
some word has reached me about how the big names in the Sydney anarchist community are responding to this rape and I think you should all be fucking ashamed of yourselves.
the only thing I can say without spiralling into invective is that if you are worried about how the survivor making his actions public is making one Benjamin McCullagh-Dennis “uncomfortable and defensive” (!),...
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Top 5 worst countries to be an immigrant |... →
ardhra:
And of course, Australia makes it into the top 5! Well done.
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I do have to get this off my chest though:
I’m hearing a lot of people talking about female-assigned-at-birth (FAAB) privilege in queer communities. This is not a thing. For it to be a thing, it would have to be a privilege in most or all contexts, all other things being equal. Cis straight women would have to be privileged relative to cis straight men. FAAB Butch lesbians would have to be privileged relative to MAAB feminine gay men. ...
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“This feeling of being “pushed out” of the city usually manifests itself in the...”
– Jerry Mangona: Gentrification: Views From Both Sides of the Street
Reading this article was really really difficult. The entire premise of it is based on the idea that “gentrification” is about *feelings* and “misunderstandings” rather than very real resource hoarding and withdrawals.
These...
I’m having that thing where I have trouble sleeping because I’m so so stressed and angry so it’s probably just as well that one of the many things annoying me is that the house we just moved into has all sorts of problems including no phone line, therefore no internet, therefore no fights on tumblr or facebook. it’s like getting cowpox so you won’t get smallpox.
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Watchay-cono:
serenading my breakfast after i didn’t want to eat it any more
this is actually amazing
my fave bit is the mini coughing fit, very lynchian
this is the only way I wanna relate to my food from now on. alas, I do not have the voice of an angel so I guess I’ll stick to mumbling and swearing
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speaking of pastels
I am 24 which is old by tumblr standards apparently,
and I am enjoying how the ~youth of tumblr~ (i.e. people who don’t actually remember the early 90s) are enraging slightly older people with their “soft grunge” and “pastel grunge”, or even better, calling anything with a 90s revival vibe “grunge” (tell me more about how your glow-in-the-dark tie-die...
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“If you’re tempted to down a soda, water, glass of wine, coffee, or other liquid...”
– How to Save a Laptop from Liquid Damage: 14 Tips - wikiHow (via theaboveground)
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bookbat:
haymitchisnotwhite:
theravendesk replied to your post: i’m reading thg fanfiction rn how many times have…
i never EVER understood why people found him so easy to villainize! he was the exact opposite of katniss in the best way! REVOLUTION! pro-active! while i love katniss, bc katniss didn’t choose him doesnt MAKE HIM EVIL and also I AM SO GLAD SHE DIDNT
wait you don’t like Gale x...
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not identifying you because, ironically, of concerns about the productivity of shaming in this context, but for real, if you think “shaming can be just as damaging as sexual assault itself” is a sentence that even makes sense then you have either gone way off the deep end of anarcho-hippy misogyny-coddling subcultural tunnel vision, or never moved away from mainstream rape culture to...
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upmountains:
the main thing that Simon Sheikh collapsing on Q&A/Sophie Mirabella not helping him has made me think about is a zine that Kurt and I planned and collected images for about 6 years ago called ALPulp, which was photos of Greg Combet (who came to help Simon Sheikh) and Jarvis Cocker where they looked similar.
they actually don’t look similar at all except they’re white dudes...
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NAIDOC Week 2012 - Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40...
renoriginal:
Bit late with this one, but HAPPY NAIDOC 2012.
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year the theme celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
For me this years NAIDOC has been a bit bittersweet. On one hand, there seems to be an...
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terrorbull:
One of the most validating things that anyone has ever said to me was when I was 19, and I said, “I dunno, he’s really charming, so no one can really believe that he would do the things that he does,” and this person said, “Fuck charming men. Charming men are half the reason why no one believes rape victims. I’m way more likely to believe that a man is a predatory scumbag once I find...
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me: someone stole the gate!
dad: should we take offence?
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