February 2012
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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then...”
– Audre Lorde
Feb 10th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Anonymous asked: Wouldn't a black Glinda be almost impossible given the lyrics in I'm Not That Girl and What Is This Feeling (blonde hair)? I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't love to see one, I'm just genuinely curious as to what you think they could do to work around that without changing the lyrics, because a lot of legal work would have to go into getting that changed for the official...
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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“The term of People of Color: People of color’ is not a term that refers to a...”
– A History: The Construction of Race and Racism (via racismfreeontario)
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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“Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling...”
– Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise”
Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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Anonymous asked: Would you consider it non-violent civil disobedience for an LGBTQ person to donate blood? (especially if going into it they knew they were STD-free and just wanted to help save some lives?)
Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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“Hollywood has proven that it literally would rather make another big budget film...”
– Saeed Jones, “Watching Pariah With Audre Lorde”
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“As an act of vengeance, I want to take what could be mine from Hollywood, put...”
– Smyth, C. (1995). “The Transgressive Sexual Subject.” In P. Burston & C. Richardson (Eds.), A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture (pp. 123-143). London: Routledge.
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“The shadow of repression has concealed the Black Lesbian in literature in direct...”
– Jewelle Gomez, “A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women”, reprinted in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology [Ed. Barbara Smith], (1983;2000), (p. 110)
Jan 30th
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Mapping Our Histories: A Visual History of Black... →
by Zanele Muholi  This paper is both a textual and a visual analysis of the making/mapping/preserving of radical black lesbian visual history in post-Apartheid South Africa. Using my own works of photography, I explore how visual activism can be employed by socially, culturally and economically marginalized women as a site of resistance to not only return the gaze of our colonizers, but to...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist,...”
– Cheryl Clarke, Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance Found in the book by Cherríe Moraga, and Gloria Anzaldúa: This Bridge Called My Back: Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1981. (via pambana)
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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“Powerful institutions love to cover up rape/mistreatment, and neglect the...”
– newwavefeminism, commenting on The Invisible War
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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it's still happening. →
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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