August 2011
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“I snatch world leaders from motorcades, from mansion house dinners, from...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, pp. 122-123
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“There are differences among those we think of as the same, and similarities...”
– Mocha Jean Herrup, queer theorist and filmmaker writing in To Be Real, edited by Rebecca Walker
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"Dance like the photo's not being tagged, love...
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“Reason is always a region carved out of the irrational—not sheltered from the...”
– – Gilles Deleuze (via funwithautonomy)
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A reminder of how quickly things change →
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Seems like the Libyans have liberated themselves...
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WatchGood vibes for a Monday morning
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“Feral politicians cheat on their expenses, feral bankers plunder the public...”
– David Harvey, http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=5207
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WatchWow on so many levels.
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"The riot is, at bottom, the language of the...
Crazy shit going down in Londontown right now: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots?CMP=twt_gu
This too: ‘“This is the uprising of the working class. We’re redistributing the wealth,” said Bryn Phillips, a 28-year-old self-described anarchist, as young people emerged from the store with chocolate bars and ice cream cones.’...
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“[The rationalist] in the end always prefers a handful of ‘certainty’...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, p. 14
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“Making cultural change is like any sort of R&D, a stab in the dark. We...”
– Marc Herbst, http://www.joaap.org/6/another/marcforward.html
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Combatting Transphobia
I’ll start off by saying I’m a cis-man of colour who’s trying to learn how not to be transphobic. Outside of activist and genderqueer/transgender circles, the term “transphobia” is rarely heard. There is a general folk consciousness around racism, sexism, and homophobia, but not around transphobia for some reason. I guess it has to to with the fact that the gender...
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“These men are a long way from being free spirits, because they still believe in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, p. 287
July 2011
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Galaxies Rising
Revolution at the dawn of the Age of Reason: a sun, Copernicus’ sun, appeared on the horizon and began to turn the black sky blue. The stars dissolved into the glare; all, that is, except for one. Guided by the blaze of Truth, humanity began to emerge from darkness into light. The Enlightenment, they called it. Science had given humanity the truth of the Sun and no longer was there any need...
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Gestures of Impossibility
I consider this a draft of something. Not sure what yet. I just wanted to get the kernel of the idea down, and later I’ll develop it into something. Maybe a prose poem or short story. We’ll see =)
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What an odd thing. An innocent set...
