Le rêveur.

Anthropologist to be with an interest in gender studies, emotions, body and kinship. Yogi wannabe, francophone, veggie and chocolate lover.

[fyp-psychology]

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky (via fyp-psychology)

[micdotcom]

At current rates, half of all black gay men and a quarter of all Latino gay men will become HIV-positive.

It seems like an outlandish fact, but according to the CDC, if current trends persist, 1 in 2 black gay men and 1 in 4 Latino gay men will become HIV-positive. That makes both groups more likely to contract HIV than the general gay population — where the odds are 1 in 6. For white gay men, it’s 1 in 11. In the fight against HIV, one thing has become very clear.

[sobercommunist]

i wanna make this really really clear: i do not care at all when someone calls me an acephobe.

comparisons matter. history matters. my grief and rage at the senseless waste of human life that is the United State’s response to the AIDS pandemic matters.

i don’t know if you’ve ever talked to long-term survivors, but i have, and i’ve talked to the gay men and women who lived through the beginning of the crisis. they say it was like a horror movie. everyone was dying. handsome strong men, men who were powerfully alive, men who were only 27, 23, 18 years old, friends and lovers and acquaintances and strangers– 

just vanished. wasted away before your eyes.

my friend tells me a story about when she was born. her mom was living in the gay ghetto of san diego, and the four men in the apartments above, two couples, were all HIV+. one of the men came to visit, and my friend’s mom asked if he would like to hold the baby. he burst into tears. “i can’t believe you’d let me hold her,” he said, “people won’t even shake my hand.”

they’re all dead now. they died one after the other, and my friend’s mom eventually moved to los angeles.

when someone sees that history, stands in the face of it, and can manage to say, “but straight people who don’t fuck have it bad too!” i get a little enraged. when someone can say, “my mom jokes that i’m a plant,” and i say, “the United States wants me dead,” and they call me an acephobe– i get a little enraged.

this is the history of our community. it’s my history. and when you draw a comparison between a lack of visibility and genocide, you are spitting on a grave. thank god that you’ve never needed to bury your dead like we have. 

i recently found out that a trans woman my age, who wrote a scintillating funny blog about sex and HIV and poverty, passed away from AIDS complications. i cried when i heard the news. 

edit: this is OK to reblog

[cissitude-blog]

Santeria Practioner, Cuba

Phyllis Galembo

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youtube.com/jadedculture 

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[ceedling]

~ Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (detail), 1907-08 ~

[androphilia]

[feminist-gender-quotes]

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

Harriet Lerner (via feminist-gender-quotes)

[theloveyourselfchallenge]

[fuckyeahdragrace]

[neurosciencenews]

Evolving to Sleep: Our Ancestors Slept Less Than 8 Hours Also

UCLA-led study on present-day hunter-gatherers dispels myths about how humans evolved to sleep.

The research is in Current Biology. (full access paywall)

Research: “Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies” by Gandhi Yetish, Hillard Kaplan, Michael Gurven, Brian Wood, Herman Pontzer, Paul R. Manger, Charles Wilson, Ronald McGregor, and Jerome M. Siegel in Current Biology doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.046

Image: Jerry Siegel with San people in the Kalahari Desert. Credit: UCLA.

[preciousinstant]

[atoubaa]

Ghana Queenmothers, Kumasi (2000) - Sibylle Bergemann

[ssonne91]

[estpretty]

[keybladesoras]

[justabystander]

a-world-of-our-very-own

“In my mind, I see a line. And over that line I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line. But I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.” That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s.

[madonnaciccone]

Paris is Burning premiere, 1991