Joyous Feminism

The Patriarchy Conspiracy

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:24:41 -0400

Frequent goalpost moving.

Blaming all ills on a given group.

Everything is evidence of the conspiracy.

Frequent use of Argument from Incredulity.

Selective perception/acknowledgement of facts.

Inability to distinguish between opinions and facts.

Reliance on emotion rather than evidence and logic.

Intolerance of subjective opinions other than theirs and people they agree with.

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Mark Wunderlich's Blog: WHY I AM NO LONGER GAY

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:33:05 -0400

Mark Wunderlich's Blog: WHY I AM NO LONGER GAY:

markwunderlich:

The internet is ruining my life. If I am to believe what the internet tells me, as a queer man I should want to be married. Marriage will save me from myself. It will complete me. Once my love is recognized by the State, I may visit my husband in a hospital. I may guarantee the seamless inheritance of assets. Marriage, I am told, is hygienic and prevents disease. And though some states may not want me to adopt children, many lovely people would support my wish to do so, because the children are our future. If I believe what I read on the Huffington Post Gay Voices, my life will have looked something like this: I was born among a foreign people. They didn’t understand me, and so I was sent to school to be bullied. I would come home in tears and think about suicide, but after seeing an earnest video I would learn “It gets better,” and despite the confusion of that indefinite pronoun, I understand that I should find my way to a city where I will discover my LGBTQetc. ethnicity. Gay Pride, brought to you by Budweiser and Absolut Vodka will be my new favorite holiday. If I wanted to join the military and help keep the terrorists from winning, and make a touching video that will go viral in which I come out to my father while looking totally adorable, I can do that too and fear no repercussions. Welcome to progress!

If I am to believe what I see on Bravo TV, we homos are best when we are renovating, revising, making it work, or critiquing a dress made of garbage bags and birdseed, or fashioning the seamless tastefulness of Martha’s farm—our Witch Queen who has got rid of all the men but us. We are told we should pity poor Anderson Cooper when his impossibly hot boyfriend is photographed making out with another dude in the park. Poor Andy! We know to lash out at Azealea Banks when she calls Perez Hilton (one of us!!) a “messy faggot,” even though he is, you know, a messy faggot. And we reserve special venom for Jodie Foster, locked for years in Hollywood’s panic room, publicly declaring herself in a speech as incoherent as Nell—TAY INA WEEN! She did it wrong! Fuck her!!

Is this who we are and want to be? If so I, for one, am no longer gay. The word has emasculated us long enough. I will not be a handmaid, will not renovate, will not help you mate with your dowdy spouse. My place is in the margin—at the edges of things—where the grass (beautiful uncut hair of graves) gets long and the shadows afford us some privacy. I do not want your army, want no one in jail for calling me a faggot (did I just commit a hate crime when I said “faggot?”) Being a homo is not an ethnicity. I will explore my gay shame. If I could I would send us back to a time when we fought for liberation, not for privileges meted out to the most privileged among us. I will not marry. I will not come out. I was not born this way, but built my queerness like a soul. I am no longer gay.

fuck. yes.

excerpt from a very necessary article by Joshua Alston

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:10:34 -0400

excerpt from a very necessary article by Joshua Alston

womeninthenews: Huffington Post’s front page gender breakdown...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:55:52 -0400

womeninthenews:

Huffington Post’s front page gender breakdown for March 21, 2013.

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:54:14 -0500

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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:31:38 -0500

From “How a Wound Heals” by Roxane Gay

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:26:08 -0500

From “How a Wound Heals” by Roxane Gay

"Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:35:27 -0500

“Not queer like gay. queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like… and pursue it.”

- Brandon Wint (via etiquette-etc)

Fuck yes.

"If a young woman in middle school or high school hangs up a poster of Barack Obama in her room, this..."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:33:56 -0500

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If a young woman in middle school or high school hangs up a poster of Barack Obama in her room, this is seen as acceptable. It’s fine for women to admire men and want to be like them.

If a young man (the same age) hangs up a poster of Hillary Clinton in his room, this is seen as odd (maybe even troubling, is he gay? Oh no!).

Society tells us young men can’t think of women as role models, unless they’re a family member, whereas young women can admire and seek to emulate anyone, regardless of gender.

If you’re a young man, and if you have a poster on your wall with a woman, she had better be half-naked in a bikini, even if the Ronald Reagan or Gen. Patton poster next to it obviously features the man fully-clothed.

Young men are not to taught to think of women as role models. They are taught to think of them as either family members or sexual objects. There is no other category presented.

”

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http://charlesclymer.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-are-we-so-ashamed-of-our-women.html (via there-was-a-girl)

THIS IS SO TRUE!

(via jahalath)

wvkc: Stop what you’re doing and watch The Knife’s new music...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:18:06 -0500

wvkc:

Stop what you’re doing and watch The Knife’s new music video for Full of Fire. This is some sexy gender-fucking Almodóvar shit.

autostraddle: Women of Color Ran The Super Bowl – And Not Just...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:37:30 -0500

autostraddle:

Women of Color Ran The Super Bowl – And Not Just Beyoncé

In the process of writing this I’ve clicked on over a dozen Beyoncé-hate memes. As if it’s super…

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DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE “REAL” WOMEN?

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:55:09 -0500

DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE “REAL” WOMEN?

Liz Phair: taking names and making beats. She is forever the...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:55:49 -0500

Liz Phair: taking names and making beats. She is forever the coolest person, and her smackdown of Chuck Klosterman in this 2003 interview is superb.

God, this article is amazing. “An Open Letter To All The...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:24:00 -0500

God, this article is amazing.

“An Open Letter To All The Male Icons I Have Consciously (or Subconsciously) Based My Butchness Upon” by Kate from Autostraddle

SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: TIRZA TRUE LATIMER BY ADRIENNE SKYE...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:16:34 -0500

SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: TIRZA TRUE LATIMER

BY ADRIENNE SKYE ROBERTS

Mickalene Thomas

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:51:43 -0500

Mickalene Thomas

excerpt from “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:28:19 -0500

excerpt from “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood

Judith Butler: How Discourse Creates Homosexuality

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:41:18 -0500

Judith Butler: How Discourse Creates Homosexuality

girl-bear: thesnorkmaiden: theartworkproject: Tracey...

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:45:31 -0500

girl-bear:

thesnorkmaiden:

theartworkproject:

Tracey Emin

EVERYONE I HAVE EVER SLEPT WITH (1963-95), 1995.

“With myself, always myself, never forgetting”

"The feminist movement is generally periodized into the so-called first, second and third waves of..."

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:28:55 -0500

“

The feminist movement is generally periodized into the so-called first, second and third waves of feminism. In the United States, the first wave is characterized by the suffragette movement; the second wave is characterized by the formation of the National Organization for Women, abortion rights politics, and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendments. Suddenly, during the third wave of feminism, women of colour make an appearance to transform feminism into a multicultural movement.

This periodization situates white middle-class women as the central historical agents to which women of colour attach themselves. However, if we were to recognize the agency of indigenous women in an account of feminist history, we might begin with 1492 when Native women collectively resisted colonization. This would allow us to see that there are multiple feminist histories emerging from multiple communities of colour which intersect at points and diverge in others. This would not negate the contributions made by white feminists, but would de-center them from our historicizing and analysis.

Indigenous feminism thus centers anti-colonial practice within its organizing. This is critical today when you have mainstream feminist groups supporting, for example, the US bombing of Afghanistan with the claim that this bombing will free women from the Taliban (apparently bombing women somehow liberates them).

”

- Andrea Smith, Indigenous Feminism Without Apology (via vanillaandlavender)