Sociology Femme

…we want to ‘quare’ queer— to throw shade on its meaning in the spirit of extending its service to “blackness.

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—	E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson in “Introduction: Queering Black Studies/”Quaring” Queer Studies” in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson) (2005), p. 7 (via agradschoolbreakup)

The stance of undefeated despair is that “familiarity…with every sort of rubble, including the rubble of words,” that grief over cruelty and injustice, which is “without fear, without resignation, without a sense of defeat,” and that “stance towards the world,” which is the basis for the carrying-on-regardless that the struggle for emancipation and happiness requires. The stance of undefeated despair is a position from which to carve out a livable life when everything is organized to prevent you from doing so, and it is a standpoint that guides political movements, including the movements to abolish slavery and prison.

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—	Avery Gordon, The Prisoner’s Curse (2010)

Palestinians have no army, no navy, no air force. This is not war, this is genocide.

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—	(via refuse-to-compromise) Yes. (via banana-hamhock) ^^^ THIS, A THOUSAND TIMES OVER. (via deafmuslimpunx)

Our bodies as fat women are public bodies, commentated bodies, dehumanised bodies too. We’re not assumed to have the power to articulate our bodies for ourselves, but we are presumed available for others to describe, define and constrict.

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—	Charlotte Cooper, “Fatphobia, The Outdoors, and Belonging” (via loveyourchaos)

Black Girl Dangerous: The Kreayshawn Complex: Cultural Appropriation As Counter-Cultural Expression »

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by TextaQueen

Kreayshawn is a white girl rapper from Oakland, California who sloppily slings misogynistic, hedonistic rhymes and whose crew “White Girl Mob” throws about the n-word for extra charm. This post isn’t specifically about her, but more generally about cultural appropriation and…

“In choosing to identify as ‘outsider’ in relation to broader dominant culture, white people may wish to validate their transgression by appropriating racially marginalised cultures, without acknowledging how that appropriation could stereotype, homogenise, objectify, commodify, exoticise, distort and invalidate those cultures. Usually believing they are simply ‘celebrating other cultures’, they act as if unaware of their privilege in benefiting from power dynamics set in place from centuries of imperialism, racism, exoticism, capitalism and colonialism. They may choose to believe they are disconnected from the forms of oppression that their ‘appreciation’ reinforces, but even their sense of entitlement to have their experience of ‘other’ cultures prioritised is symptomatic of white supremacy.

In the white-centric queer / radical circles I have often moved within, it seems that there is a general will to believe that ‘the community’ can be disconnected from the oppressions of broader culture. In these spaces, politics regarding sex and gender might be discussed foremost, anti-capitalist and anti-racist agendas may be touted, yet cultural appropriation and racial fetishism seem to be embraced with as little examination as in environments considered less highly politicised.

In queer radical scenes, expressing political consciousness and emphasising your oppressions not your privileges earns status in the social hierarchy, even as those privileges invisibly add value. Hip hop aesthetic and swagger, furthering identification with POC culture and resistance, seems a popular mode of expressing and authenticating a ‘revolutionary’ or countercultural identity. This is deemed relevant by people’s own experiences of oppression. However this is done by white people without an understanding of the lived experience of racial oppression and in denial of their own inescapable connections to that oppression.”

Racialicious: blkgirlblogging: Melissa Harris-Perry, rape survivor, sends an open... »

blkgirlblogging:

Melissa Harris-Perry, rape survivor, sends an open letter to Richard Mourdock

ro-s-aspa-rks:

shonilane:

str8nochaser:

darkjez:

megbytheminute:

andmodern:

Everyone needs to watch this video, left, right, center, apathetic—it…

Rape is on the increase, reported and unreported, and rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression. As Kalamu ya Salaam, a Black male writer points out, “As long as male domination exists, rape will exist. Only women revolting and men made conscious of their responsibility to fight sexism can collectively stop rape.

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—	Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider (via thenewwomensmovement)

The Aggressive (A Call for Help.) »

bklynboihood:

We debated whether or not to post this. There is no way to grow but through honesty. Please discuss, reply, go off, share, etc. We will be hosting a discussion series starting in November to create a safe space for our community to discuss+process+share+grow. Stay tuned for details. <3, the bois

Trigger Warnings: domestic abuse, physical/partner violence.

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sexualityandfeminismandgender:

OH MY GOSH YOU GUYS THIS IS SO GOOD AND I LOVE THIS

Hey guys I am reblogging this from my feminist blog because this post is awesome, and also if you like things about sexuality or gender or feminism and stuff you should go check it out!

:)

blackpoemusic:

“Study can’t be calculated from the number of pages read in a night or by the quantity of books read in the course of a semester. Study is not an act of consuming ideas, but rather one of creating them and recreating them.”

By Paulo Freire

I guess my feminism and my race are the same thing to me. They’re tied in one to another, and I don’t feel an alliance or an allegiance with upper-class white women. I don’t. I can listen to them and on some level as a human being I can feel great compassion and friendships; but they have to move from their territory to mine, because I know their world. But they don’t know mine.

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—	Sandra Cisneros, Chicana Feminist Thought (via sister-bell)

Negativity might well constitute an antipolitics, but should not register as apolitical.

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—	J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

African American English is the single most important source for new slang (and, eventually, unmarked everyday colloquial usage) in White American English. Yet White authorities and ordinary people scorn and abuse it in every possible way. African American English is widely regarded as a disorderly form of “slang,” to be discouraged at school and on the job.

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—	Jane H. Hill, The Everyday Language of White Racism (via tangledupinlace)

I may wish to reconstitute my “self” as if it were there all along, a tacit ego with acumen from the start; but to do so would be to deny the various forms of rapture and subjection that formed the condition of my emergence as an individuated being and that continue to haunt my adult sense of self with whatever anxiety and longing I may now feel. Individuation is an accomplishment, not a presupposition, and certainly no guarantee

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—	Judith Butler - Precarious life Chapter 2 - Violence, Mourning, Politics, pg 27. (via jsulls)

QUEERING THE GAME OF LIFE: vampirickilometer: bonegrammaticality: NO LISTEN, SERIOUSLY GUYS What... »

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bonegrammaticality:

NO LISTEN, SERIOUSLY GUYS

What you call “correct grammar” is a social construct which is useful to know specifically because people will equate it with your level of education when you are trying to, say, apply for jobs, or get a book…