literally a cat @decoyreindeer - Tumblr Blog

thinking about remaking in order to like... idk, recenter who i follow around who i feel like i am now/what i care about now as opposed to in 2011(!!) when i started this tumblr

and possibly in order to be more open about personal shit/potentially make deeper connections rather than holding things so close to my chest out of some kind of paranoia that someone i don’t want to will recognize me?

but... the History....

#if you're a long time mutual i'm gonna still follow you #personal

megaceros

commission for @snowyartemus

Rowlet and quality jiggles

megaceros

Fun story: in maya if you don’t locate the jiggle to a certain part it jiggles all the body. Not in a cute way

candlemass-snapback

He’s just having a good time

#idek #pokemon

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Crenshaw herself has stated that intersectionality is not about identity, and that she’s surprised at how much the term has taken off and how many interpretations her original work generated. It was never about identity or including as many identities as possible in your social justice emotional validation or inclusion or whatever. It was always about analyzing the multiple, interconnected factors that create the conditions of the material violence that women of color face. The core point of the theory is that you cannot separate one factor from another when it comes to women of color. If a woc faces misogyny, that misogyny is inseparable from racism, and vice versa. That’s what intersectionality is about. If you’re telling someone that they have to be inclusive of women of color, that’s a question of inclusion, not a question of intersectionality. A person cannot “be intersectional” because it’s about the material reality of WOMEN OF COLOR.

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I should have made it more explicit in the original post but Crenshaw’s primary locus of analysis is Black American women. As a legal scholar, she was writing from the standpoint of how legal redresses against discrimination may (sometimes) work for white women or Black men, but don’t usually work for Black women because they treat the categories “Black” and “woman” as inherently separable and discrete. She lists multiple examples that are pertinent to Black American women and their oppression (misogynoir) specifically. She does however also list other examples that are relevant to other women of color and immigrant women, such as explaining why carceral feminism is detrimental rather than beneficial for immigrant women (who could be abused by their husbands because of misogyny and then brutalized and arrested by cops for their citizenship status, race, or ethnicity). Of course I as a South Asian woman am not at all the predominant focus of the attendant social analysis in the intersectional framework, and that’s important to keep in mind. I wrote this post as a quick reflection on a movie review I saw about how including disabled women in a movie is “intersectional”, and I was frustrated with how that review missed the point, so I jotted down this note. Anyway, I should’ve been more explicit about that in the original post, so do keep this in mind!

Also, please take the time to read at least the first few pages of the paper Crenshaw constructs this epistemic and analytical framework in: “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color”. If you don’t have access to JSTOR, let me know and I can find another copy/link for you!

#intersectionality

srsfunny

They’re Trying

#idek #hedgehogs #food

that-weird-breton-girl

???????

specta-a-deactivated20180419

Power move

#idek #video games

lookataleaf3000

If you haven’t seen Gender Troubles: The Butches yet, nows your chance – it’s free online to stream today in honor of int'l women’s day! It’s a butch-made documentary about butch lesbian lives. Go check it out if ya have time.

#butch

proletherian-dictatorship

queer theory is the worst thing to ever exist

#laskdfjalskdjf #queer theory #q slur

oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019

I saw a “we need more women in the top 1%” ad and SCREAM liberals will really praise an exploiting class whenever it seems progressive.

the top 1% shouldn’t even exist.

bonus: ad sponsored by google, unsurprisingly, LMAO

oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019

“imagine a world with more female ceos” imagine a world with NO ceos

#capitalism

mediumaevum

Medieval Manuscripts Ink and Pigment Sampler

This ink and pigment sampler was compiled by the Special Collections Conservation Unit of the Preservation Department of Yale University Library.

View full PDF

#mss

littlebirdofprey

Current mood: this cat from a shitty dating sim

#holy shit???#cats

i had an exam today and i know for a fact that one of my answers was really boneheaded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i spent too much time yesterday sending (important but not that urgent) emails rather than studying. but tbh i think i might have given the same stupid answer regardless.

yesterday my favorite pants wore out in the crotch in an unfixable way presumably due to thigh friction. and they were not inexpensive and they were not old. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#personal #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

grymmoires

inexplicably-gaining-followers

This stupid exchange between friends has become a cultural icon.

daglout

This text thread brought us into a new age

emrakul-flying-spaghetti-monster

The year is 1 ATP (After Then Perish)

#for posterity #idek #hewwo?

laidlays

there’s one image on my computer that’s so unnaturally large that opening it in my browser just about slows the whole fucking thing down to a near halt unless i exit the tab and it’s this single fucking image

laidlays

i’m seeing a lot of you misinterpreting the actual size of the picture to be the thumbnail i posted so i’m just going to show you all the gravity of this situation