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[isoseadraws]

[the-catacombs]

[venusimleder]

Cesare Paciotti, A/W 1999.

Ph. Terry Richardson

[rowenagirl]

[tatzelwurming]

i show a neanderthal a doom metal album and they understand implicitly. they pick up a bass guitar and start to play it instinctually

[homo-neandertalensis]

Was made to groove

[tatzelwurming]

my man

[comikbook]

why did i get the eating disorder hotline for deedee megadoodoo

[belanekra]

[kosmogrl]

[genderkoolaid]

some of yall do need to get more feminist for real

[genderkoolaid]

like i do think that to engage properly with theory around anti transmasculinity and exorsexism you should also be engaging with feminism more broadly, and understand feminist history and theory and various approaches etc etc. you are not immune to internalizing shallow pop feminism, or anti-feminist talking points, or just being undereducated on feminism.

bell hooks wrote Feminism Is for Everybody specifically as a short, accessible primer to explain feminist theory without complicated academic language, & you can read it here or watch someone read it aloud here! and you should! at minimum i think everyone should read/listen to this book. if you want to go deeper with hooks, also check out Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.

i also recommend (although these are varying degrees of accessible & skew US-centric; also, every text can and should be read critically! its good for everyone! critical engagement is an act of mutual respect and encouragement!):

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

"Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism" by Ellen Willis

Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism by Zillah R. Eisenstein

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions (4th ed.) by Josephine Donovan*

"Wages Against Housework" by Silvia Federici

*as an introduction to the history of feminism & to get a sense of how various feminist theories evolved; Donovan is pretty hostile towards Butler and very positive about cultural radical feminism. so not a source of good transfeminist theory, but has educational value.

[messygoku]

and I would fuck pochettino

[lockssteps]

im a fake fan of everything i like because i cant remember anything

[000rrx]

[messican133]

There is no Love on that island

[halles-comet]

my favorite thing about louis is he's a business major in a world of theater kids. everyone's playing psychological games with each other through theater and rock music and the fractured art of storytelling and he's like "but what are the margins on my vampire hotel"

[filmsbygays]

[mariahcareyswhistlenote]

The fact that this is true

[byjove]

One of the funniest things about Mormonism is that I’m sure Joseph Smith never believed any of the bullshit he said. There are some religions and cults where you have faith the original prophet actually thought they were talking to angels or believed the set of principles they laid out for their followers were for the greater good. Joseph Smith was a dumbass but like PT Barnum he realized a sucker was born every day and he was one step above the average 1830s sucker. He went from making people pay him to look at a rock in a top hat and ‘locate buried treasure’ to receiving lost bits of scripture, through the rock and top hat method. His wife caught him cheating and he said an angel visited him and told him men should be allowed multiple wives and not obeying that would send her to hell. I’m fairly convinced that dude was an atheist. He was on that hustler grindset. Brigham Young might have actually believed some of the shit he said but I don’t think Joseph Smith genuinely had faith in Mormonism or gave a fuck about humanity in the slightest.

[byjove]

Few people hustle and scam so hard that they’re considered a martyr and a prophet 200 years later and their fanfiction is considered serious lost biblical scripture even though they stole lines from Shakespeare.

[cutecipher]

the increasingly rare correct hacker news comment