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âThe personal is politicalâ was originally intended to mean that the oppression you experience as an individual is patterned - that there are structural patterns underlying your experience. It encouraged individuals who were experiencing oppressive situations - a woman abused by her husband or a worker exploited by her employer - to view these situations not as personal problems but as political problems that require coming to getting with others to address the issue in the public sphere.
It is no small irony that the phrase âthe personal is politicalâ is now often used to mean something opposite of the original meaning. While it once meant that personal problems are not really personal, but are structural problems that require collective action, now people use the phrase to advocate uncoordinated individual action (buying organic shampoo) as somehow constitution a political intervention.
Jonathan Matthew Smucker - Hegemony How-To. A roadmap for radicals.
In honor of Janelle MonĂĄe coming out I put together a lil graphic about bi & pan identities! This is based on my own experiences within the community as someone who uses both terms. It of course does not cover everything! Image description under the cut.
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Note a very important part of this post:Â
âI am more comfortable with the term [bi/pan].â
No bigger reason than that is needed to identify with one term and not the other.
When people tell you they are one but not the other, that is it.Â
You do not get to argue them using even the reasonable definitions.Â
Bi people can describe their attraction the way pansexuality/romanticism is defined above and pan people can describe their attraction the way bisexuality/romanticism is defined above and that does not mean they are wrong.Â
The only differences between bi and pan exists within the individuals who identify with one but not the other.Â
Call for Submissions - Zine on being trans / nonbinary and disabled / chronically ill Image text transcript: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS For the second issue of a collaborative zine on being trans // nonbinary & disabled // chronically ill Contribute essays (max 1000 words), fiction, interviews, poetry, art, comics, collage or photography. You can either design your own 2 to 4 page spread, or just submit the content!
Things to consider:
How do you experience the intersection of your identities? How do they impact upon each other, and how are they separate?
What does an accessible, gender affirming world look like for you?
What has your journey so far been?Â
What are some of the struggles and the positives with your identity?
What messages do you have for other disabled folk and for society at large?
Include name + any social media you want credited, or specify anonymous.
This and the previous issue are published at:Â issuu.com/raz_zines
Deadline for submissions 31st July 2018
Submissions and questions to: [email protected] Submitted by ZoharÂ
True Bi/Ace solidarity is both being able to make the joke âI like my men the way I like my women.â despite having vastly different punch lines.
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When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Â
Itâs effective because especially for children, who donât have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea. Â
There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, itâs when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.
When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.
what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. thatâs how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, itâs only misappropriation when itâs done in ignorance and disrespect.
Thereâs an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they werenât interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started ârebrandingâ Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what theyâre being told about Christmas and âSandy Clawsâ is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldnât quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows itâs not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didnât âget it,â but he then decided itâs not important to fully âget itâ but instead to have it.
So itâs not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.
This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about âcultural appropriation.â
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Me, an intellectual: Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
Tumblr: *rolls out âbest stuff firstâ*
My blog:
on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadnât made the connection between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit iâve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who havenât made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything theyâve made. and that fucking sucks.
Reminder to go into your settings and turn off âBest Stuff Firstâ because my activityâs tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.
You WILL miss content with that setting on.
i ainât joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasnât sure why
Iâm sure you all have seen posts like this before, but you will be missing out on a lot of content if you have this feature activated.
Fyi, folks, this account has been hit pretty hard by this change. Engagement is currently at about 30% of normal, which means that there are a lot of people missing out on informative posts like this one about original works on AO3.
In order to change this setting on mobile (itâs unclear if itâs available on desktop at the moment), view your blog by tapping the little silhouette in the bottom right of your screen, then tap the settings gear in the top right of your screen. From there, select Global Settings (iOS) or General Settings (Android), then Dashboard Preferences, and toggle the switch for âBest Stuff First.â
Thanks to everybody who follows this account, everybody who reblogs and/or likes the posts here, and everybody who joins in with events like Fandom First Friday! Youâre all awesome!
Hey guys, normally I donât reblog on this account, but I wanted to help make more people aware of this. Itâs probably going to harm every single person you follow, so please consider turning it off. Iâve noticed a drop from normal as well and although I try to not let note counts bother me, I have to admit itâs pretty discouraging.
Watch: Terry Crews has some brilliant points about feminism â including an apt parallel to Civil Rights.
Thank you for hitting all those nail Terry
You can tell heâs really been doing self-reflection in addition to research from how he frames his answer.
Terry is my manspo, truly LikeâŠmy man has been doing work.
Terry and the Rock are two men who have really talked about their personals struggles and growth. Iâm here for it.
Nothing more attractive than a person who tells the truth, acknowledges their mistakes and grows from them.
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look. i donât think my stretch marks are beautiful. i donât think theyâre tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i donât think my acne is beautiful. i donât think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think theyâre human. and i donât think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i donât think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.
âA long-term study of children raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor, lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz, 2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010). There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone, 2010).â ~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.
âhaving gay parents will harm childrenâ
I love that this is cited and sourced ahhhh. Actual researched support! So good.
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As itâs Pride month and as I donât think people realise the Pride flag has been adapted a lot over time (Iâve seen over 20 versions so far). I thought it would be nice to shine a light on a few of the alternative versions of the Pride flag. As a community, we should be working together to battle inequality. POC donât feel part of our community so if having the More Color More Pride flag helps even slightly then please donât stand in anyoneâs way. Itâs not replacing the Gilbert flag, just like none of these flags have replaced it. Also, just consider this comment I found on FB: âThe âBut we donât need it because it already represents everyoneâ complaints sound very much like the straight people who are uncomfortable with the attention we get and try to put on straight pride.â
Iâve been starting to notice a trend in films lately⊠It might have always been there; the trope involves disabled villains, which I typically try to avoid, so maybe Iâve just not seen it until lately. But I feel like often when I see a villain who is disabled (particularly one who has a prosthetic/mask/whatever), there is a climactic moment in the final battle when their prosthesis is torn off, exposing their uncovered disability (extreme facial scarring, residual limb, etc.) to the hero and often leaving the villain, to some degree, helpless. Like. Iâve even seen this in franchises that tend to be pretty good on disability, like HTTYD. (Side note, wasnât that villain also like the only POC in the movies? uh.)
Anyway, this isnât going to be as long as some of my posts, but please, please donât rely on this visual trope. Itâs so damaging. It utilizes disability to provoke feelings of body horror by using a surprise (and often brutal) reveal, it uses the horror of having an assistive device taken from a PWD as an often triumphant moment during a fight, it equates lack of use of a prosthesis with vulnerability/inability, etc.
Like I get that shitâs gonna get real and sometimes you have to fight dirty during a battle, so Iâm not necessarily against assistive devices being taken in general during these scenes (though seriously, donât ever do it IRL), but itâs all about the way that the moment is presented to the audience. Itâs often used as easy visual shorthand to induce horror in the viewer â and itâs horror thatâs rooted in the fear of disability. It predicates on the revulsion many people feel for non-normalized bodies, and it predicates on the fear of losing their own physical ability that many able-bodied people feel when they look at PWD IRL. In other words, seeing the disabled body in this context not only freaks able-bodied viewers out because it doesnât âlook rightâ, it also appeals to the fear of becoming disabled, which often mars IRL interactions with PWD.
Just. Please donât use disability to inspire horror in your viewers. Please. All it does is strengthen the subconscious negative associations that able-bodied individuals already have with disability and disabled people. Body horror is a complicated topic in general, but at least give me this. No more scary villain disability reveals in action movies.
Just as an expansion on the fact that this is not new: In western culture, it was always believed that disability was a mark of being touched by the devil, of sin. This attitude has pervaded (western) media throughout most of human history: just look at Shakespeare's play Richard III, where his spine deformity marks him as evil. Disabled people have been killed by abled people for their non-life threatening disabilities for millenia. Not only is this characterisation old af, it's pervasive af. We are living in the best time in history for positive representation of disability in media, and y'all better work to make it even better.
Disclaimer: I only reference western media here bc I haven't studied any other kind in any depth
Well considering gender has literally nothing to do with biology I doubt that would happen.
Gender has everything to do with biology. We wouldnât have a binary without it. Theyâre inseparable.
Surprise: There is no binary. The binary is an oversimplification that is largely contextualized within Western culture.Â
We wouldnât be here right now if there wasnât a gender binary. Complex lifeforms need one to perpetuate themselves.
Also incorrect. Sex is a spectrum. Youâll find that reality is rarely as simple as pure and uncompromising binaries.Â
Sex isnât chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & YThe influence of the XX/XY model of chromosomal sex has been profound over the last century, but itâs founded on faulty premises and responsible for encouraging reductive, essentialist thinking. While the scientific world has moved on, its popular appeal remains.
Have you considered that those scientists might be bias and pushing an agenda. Gender is a biological absolute.
Gender is highly contextualized by time and place. Like, if you want to talk about scientists being biased and pushing an agenda, look at modern western science for pushing a flawed binary narrative.
Non-binary genders are not a modern invention. The idea of third genders/non-binary genders is as old as human civilization, because gender is socially constructed and subjective, and peopleâs ideas about gender have changed over time and between cultures.
In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are not men and not women. In a Sumerian creation myth found on a stone tablet from the second millennium BC, the goddess Ninmah fashions a being âwith no male organ and no female organâ, for whom Enki finds a position in society: âto stand before the kingâ.
In Babylonia, Sumer and Assyria, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Inanna/Ishtar have been described as a third gender.
Inscribed pottery shards from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000â1800 BCE), found near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), list three human genders: tai (male), sáž«t (âsekhetâ) and hmt (female).
The Vedas (c. 1500 BCâ500 BC) describe individuals as belonging to one of three categories, according to oneâs nature or prakrti. These are also spelled out in the Kama Sutra (c. 4th century AD) and elsewhere as pums-prakrti (male-nature), stri-prakrti (female-nature), and tritiya-prakrti (third-nature).
Many have interpreted the âeunuchsâ of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean world as a third gender that inhabited a liminal space between women and men, understood in their societies as somehow neither or both. In the Historia Augusta, the eunuch body is described as a tertium genus hominum (a third human gender),
The ancient Maya civilization may have recognised a third gender, according to historian Matthew Looper. Looper notes the androgynous Maize Deity and masculine Moon goddess of Maya mythology, and iconography and inscriptions where rulers embody or impersonate these deities. He suggests that the third gender could also include two-spirit individuals with special roles such as healers or diviners
Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce agrees, writing that âgender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as âmaleâ and âfemale.â At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playing male and female roles in state ceremonies.â
Andean Studies scholar Michael Horswell writes that third-gendered ritual attendants to chuqui chinchay, a jaguar deity in Incan mythology, were âvital actors in Andean ceremoniesâ prior to Spanish colonisation.
Two-spirit individuals are viewed in some Native American cultures as having two identities occupying one body. Their dress is usually a mixture of traditionally male and traditionally female articles, or they may dress as a man one day, and a woman on another.
In Pakistan, the hijras are officially recognized as third gender by the government,
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itâs amazing how quickly âscience says there are only two gendersâ becomes âhave you considered that science is fake and is pushing an agenda?â
Iâm a biologist and I can assure you the 2 gender binary doesnât exist. All around we see animals that donât fall into either categories. Gender is a spectrum is the realest line there is when it comes to biology and gender.
Cis people: Science says the truth.
Science: *Says theyâre wrong*
Cis people: Actually, you know what, science is bad and is lying.
i witnessed the most fascinating thing today imoâŠmy 4th grade art class were talking while they did their work and one of them was like âif you work hard all your lifeâŠâŠ.it means NOTHINGâ and their response was to all crack up and start running with this bit like. âyou work all your life on an oil painting. the mayor comes in. he says âi didnât even ask you to do that painting.ââ they kept going giving examples of nothing mattering and laughing hysterically. theyâre 9. like, we think OUR humor is depressing or w/e, how are THEY going to be
Millennials are depressed but the Gen Z kids are straight up nihilists
