All the messages from our EILAY board!
I understand this isn’t a completely unpopular opinion, but to some people, it is.
Don’t agree? backt0theburrow.tumblr.com/ask
Because no child should live in fear of being kidnapped and forced to kill their own parents:
“KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. Pledge your support at http://www.kony2012.com/ and continue to share this story.
GOAL: 500,000 shares”
I know this isn’t LGBTQ related however, it is very important. Reblog and spread the word!
This ongoing body of work explores the power dynamics inherent in the questions asked of transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, gender-variant, and/or gender non-conforming people.
Many documentary photographic projects that deal with trans issues exploit the genders of their subjects, pointing to an “otherness” or inappropriately exoticizing their bodies.
I’ve posted a version of the genderbread person on here before, but this one is more visually pleasing. Click through for a high quality .pdf version.
‘Queer’, a derogatory term leveled at the non-hetero-seeming, was reappropriated in the late 1980s, early 1990s by its victims as a defiant means of empowerment echoing black activists’ use of ‘nigger’ in the 1960s. Relieving the burden of the titular expansion of L-G-B-T- (lebian, gay, bisexual, and transgender), queer’s most basic function is as an umbrella term or catch-all for uniting various forms of non-straight sexual identity. But it means much more than this. Queer represents the resistance to, primarily, the normative codes of gender and sexual expression…In this way, queer, as a critical concept, encompasses the non fixity of gender expression and the non-fixity of both gay and straight sexuality. As Richard Dyer rightly reminds us, the contemporary formulation of queer functions in sharp contrast to its past, it signifies a fluidity of identity where, historically, queer represented an ‘exclusive and fixed sexuality’. To be queer now means to be untethered from ‘conventional’ codes of behavior. At its most expansive and utopian, queer contests (hetero- and homo-) normality.
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New Queer Cinema: An Introduction by Michele Aaron. ALL OF THIS. except the n word part…these words are not parallel in their re-appropriation (via radical-cunts) |
EILAY
Hey guys, It’s Meaghan, and I just wanted to write about SAFE’s next project I guess? (If we can call it that.) And it’s a little something called, EILAY (Everything I Love About You)! The people who went to common threads already knows what it’s all about but, I guess I’ll explain some more for those who didn’t hear at the last meeting.
At common threads EILAY was a great big piece of paper with those letters on it and people wrote down how they felt, words of encouragement, quotes anything that was positive really. I thought It would be a good idea to, spread the love?
SO— For our little EILAY board I’d like everyone to at least post one quote, some words of encouragement, personal message etc that has to do with positivity, equality blah blah everything that SAFE stands for. (Not orgys.)
second class citizens, an upcoming documentary about the gay rights movement
i am crying like a baby because it never really hit me until now
my best friend likes girls
i love her and i love calloway and i love laura and i love braddy and i love metin and i love calvin and i love rachel and i can’t deal with this okay i can’t deal with how much i love people who are in danger and who could be killed because of who they love and oh my god i can’t deal with this
please watch this. it’s really worth the 6 minutes.
oh wow
