Posts tagged Queer Politics
SPHERE
[image/symbol and name of non-gender-conforming web-group is from here]
We live inside someone's realised idea. We live inside someone's realised physical idea for what the home or village or town or city you are in was be designed to look like. We live inside someone's realised social and economic idea of what the civilisation you live in was designed to do. We live inside
[this statement is from here, and appears on Carolyn Gage's blog post, excerpted below]
The white radical lesbian-feminist playwright and author of so many other forms of writing, Carolyn Gage, has newly taken to blogging. And we are better for it, as she is, after all, a writer, and her posts are wonderful to read.
I recently commented on one of them, having to do with the anti-lesbianism and
WHAT DO
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What follows is a collection of questions and interrogations. I welcome your respectful input.
I've grown up hearing terms like homosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and more recently queer and transgender used to describe a population of people impacted negatively by heteropatriarchy. I'd add to that people who identify and are genderqueer,
[image of "introducing" is from here and is not affiliated with the CFC.]
The Crunk Feminist CollectiveWhere Crunk Meets Conscious and Feminism Meets Cool
I am too excited for words about a new U.S.-based blog--new to me, started in March of 2010--called The Crunk Feminist Collective. OMG!
With permission, here is one of their posts. May their blogging and activist lives be long and
GLF at Christopher Street Liberation Day 1971
[image of the Gay Liberation Front, NYC is from here]
Lesbian and Gay Pride, LGBT Pride, Queer Pride events have been happening for 40 years in many places in the U.S. this year. Here's a sampling of some events in 2010. I won't get into the whole political history except to say that I wish the Gay Liberation Front was still alive and well. That
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Above is a graphic that states precisely my experience of most of what is being called "radical" action in white queer and non-queer circles. All that follows is a challenge to the
radicalism that appears to me to be "for display purposes only".
A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL
by Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial
This is such as sweet ad! Too bad it's from a company that has contributed to the spread of cardiovascular disease and obesity for millions of people served. We can hope, at some point, that "gay" won't always be depicted as "white" and "middle class", but I expect nothing more from dominant cultural media, although, I have to say, McDonalds in the U.S. is notorious for pitching its slogans and
[photograph of Sheila Jeffreys is from here]
What is missing from much supposedly "intelligent critical thinking" that white men are so renowned for accomplishing, is the capacity, it appears, to even engage with ideas that critique patriarchy at all. Radical political thinkers' work has limitations: like that of Noam Chomsky, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. But I know
This is one person's story and it shouldn't be assumed to be just like anyone else's story. And not completely different either. I want to include this link, to a blog that deals with intersexuality in various languages:
http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/
Next, please meet Maya Posch:
I once knew someone with no gender and no sex. To look at this person, you wouldn't likely be able to say
Bronski Beat, "Why" lyricsContempt in your eyes
As I turn to kiss his lips
Broken I lie
All my feelings denied
Blood on your fist
Can you tell me why?
You in your false securities
Tear up my life
Condemning me
Name me an illness
Call me a sin
Never feel guilty
Never give in
Tell me why?
You and me together
Fighting for our love
Can you tell me why?
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