CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE.
(source)
ALL THE FUCKING CHILLS
damn, what a beautifully powerful performance.
Fucking beautiful….
“Rainbows are just a trick of the light”
Holy shit.
Transcription:
There’s no place like homo
There’s no place like homo
somewhere over the rainbow
way up high
there’s a land that I heard of
once in a lullaby
Wake up honi
it’s called san francisco
where white bourgie bitches getting gay married
but my ass ain’t got an invite sha hoo~
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can’t I?
BECAUSE YOU’RE BROWN HONEY GURL
I’m bout to sassy gay friend this ish ~
Not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you
Rainbows are just refracted beams of white light,
Gay marriage activism is a temper tantrum:
Mommy I’m going to buy an “I’m a second class citizen” American Apparel v-neck to go with my corporate internship and some ass
I didn’t always think this way
Cuz philadelphia taught me everything i still know about shame
that my queer body was something to “correct”
that looking like “a faggot with a cunt” only meant
I was looking for trouble
So in high school I laced my shoes with rainbows
and preached the gospel of equal rights and pride
That tell us marriage will finally untangle
our love from shame, will legislate us wholly human
But the day same sex marriage was legalized in New York, DC, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa it didn’t get better because “Somewhere over the rainbow” there’s a pot of Goldman Sachs
**DUN DUN DUN DUN**We are gathered here today**
for richer, for poorer
tell that to El’Jai who lost his job last year
His state is one of only 12
where you cannot legally be fired
for having a body that doesn’t sit right with your heart
but his job “could only be done by a man”
and his genitals did not conform to his employers expectations.
[I do not know if he won the court case, only that he has a son,
and that being brown and trans means being 4 times less likely to find work]
but who needs money for bread when you can eat wedding cake!
in good times and in bad
tell that to Temmie Breslauer a transwoman who was arrested for using
her father’s discount subway card.
the NYPD chained her to a wall for 28 hours and called her a he-she
to have and to be held
this is what marriage means for queer people
as we send the government wedding invitations to incarcerate our love
till death do us part,
tell that to asher brown who at thirteen took a gun to his head
as if it was an act of patriotism because in texas
being gay is a death sentence
it is nights spent whispering secrets to open skies
it is the sound of your mother crying because she wonders
how that thing came out of her
and i do, i do, i do
not believe that a marriage certificate
could have stopped the bullet
Remember,
Remember,
Remember,
There is something beautiful about being lied to:
Rainbows are just a trick of light,
They make us forget the storm is still happening,
When walking towards the end of the rainbow, it will always move away.
(Source: militant-rage, via tinyspiritz)
i play drums in this band with sarah ayton.
we recorded an e.p. last week, fueled by coffee & chocolate & totally grey mountain air.
HOLY FUCK THIS IS SO GOOD. “dirty shoulder” took my breath away.
NOW IS THE TIME to submit your proposal for the Fierce Fashion Futures track for the 2013 Allied Media Conference! The deadline to submit is March 8th! The conference will take place June 20-23rd in Detroit, MI.
PLEASE REBLOG AND SHARE WIDELY!
Fierce Fashion Futures call for proposals:
Fashion is media and politics at the same time. Every day we communicate something about who we are, who we want and what kind of world we want with our clothes and our bodies. How can we understand the ways that fashion builds community and simultaneously excludes from community? How can we reclaim beauty in our own fat, QTPOC, disabled queer radical selves? Fashion can be used as emotional and spiritual armor as well as physical protection from police and chemical weapons. What new possibilities for expression and network building are created by wearable electronics, e-textiles and new fashion technologies? How does fashion work in radical media, dance and performance?
We want to build a community of radical fashion lovers, who see fashion not as big business or an elite sport, but as an art form for all people with subversive potential as a space of self-expression and creation. We want to broaden the ways that the media activist communities that are a part of the AMC think about fashion as a kind of politics in their everyday life. We hope to expand the conversation about gender, race, sexuality and ability by having these spaces to talk about how they play out on our bodies through clothing. We are looking to help people build new skills for creating their own clothes, expanding the options people have for their fashion choices in the future and for making wearable electronics, expanding our possibilities for creating everyday technologies.
We are looking for the following kinds of proposals:
HOW-TO Such as: skills for making and re-making your own clothes; creating wearable electronics; sustaining yourself through DIY business.
THEORY Such as: how fashion can help us explore our identities; fashion without overconsumption; fashion as community building/fashion as homogenizer.
ACTION Such as: using fashion to embrace and empower your body; understanding and fighting sweatshops; using fashion to protect yourself in direct-action.
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Shadow photography (1974) by Arthur Tress
h/t alecshao
See also shadow photography by Alexey Bednij
oh god oh god oh god all the feelings
We loved neonV Mag editors’ Icons Re-Imagined Series. Each editor chose their favorite cultural icons- Alex Box, Iris Apfel, and an influential woman who inspired the ImREDy campaign, June Ambrose, and re-imagined them. Check out neonV Mag for the full spread!
omg even without the awesome concept behind it, so into these portraits.
(via ladyfresh)
for the record: the only photoshop i want to see anywhere near frida. she is totally judging you for photoshopping her head onto someone else’s body (1) (2)/representing her without her badass facial hair and for generally being a bag of dicks.
and oh hey remember when i totally cried when i saw this piece in real life earlier this year. this has a bit of a different tone to it!
(via deactivated-catladysouls)
All it says at the source: 1940s “Louise”
Which is unfortunate. I’d love to know more.
wow. wow.
(via tinyspiritz)
I love Kate Beaton.
we just want to tell you that all men are garbage
and women are never wrong
REASONS WHY KATE BEATON IS NUMBER 1 IN MY HEART PANTS
(Source: nautics, via deeplezstonerwitch)
