Morgan Potts

Morgan Potts is an international relations theorist, editor, non-binary trans activist, photographer, and cellist. He likes feminist punk and science fiction. This blog is a collection of his writing and some things he likes.

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[koreanmodel]

Bae Yoon Young for Vogue Korea Sept 2015

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steph

stephanie

jeff

jeffanie

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tim

timothy

jim

jimothy

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nick

nicholas

rick

richolas

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harry 

harold

larry

larold

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Zack zackary Jack jackary

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will william phil philliam

[artifakultur]

show them who’s boss: NO ONE

[serenascorpio]

next time you hear a white person say “well if black people can say the n-word why can’t i???” you should ask them “why do you want to?” and listen as they try not to say “black people have something of their own that I am not entitled to and that hurts my feelings and makes me feel inferior”

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[beeple]

HEXOUT

[archiveofaffinities]

Hodgetts & Fung, Cookie Express, Orange County, California, 1984

[solizardlike-deactivated2016062]

men need to learn that they are programmed to ignore women, and interrupt women ,and speak over women, and undermine and under appreciate them and then they need to spend a lot of time consciously trying to stop 

[murahin-blog]

it occasionally occurs to me that pretty much all sj issues can be summed up as “don’t hurt people” with a sidenote of “you can hurt people on accident, but they’re still hurt so apologize and learn from it”

basically at the core of it, it’s similar to “if you bump into a stranger, apologize and try not to do it again”. And people not only debate it, but some go out of their way to bump into strangers and scream “Awww are you hurt?! are you crying!! did I upset you!!” as a weird hobby

[queeranarchism]

While I understand what you’re trying to get at here - the fact that bigots are arses and should just cut it out already, this is social justice reduced to liberal individualism. Which is sadly what a lot of people do. 

But “don’t hurt people” doesn’t stop employers from unconciously prefering white names and white faces in job interviews. “don’t hurt people” doesn’t fix incarceration rates, unless you take it to the healthy extreme of “don’t allow cops and judges and probation officers to hurt people”, which very few people are prepared to do. “don’t hurt people” doesn’t fix centuries of hurt. “don’t hurt people” doesn’t take people out of poverty. 

If it’s personal ethics you’re looking for, “don’t hurt people” is a good guideline, but you could by that standard achieve personal ethics while living peacefully within nazi Germany in 1943. 

We need a lot more than “don’t hurt people” to approach anything resembling justice. Tearing down systems of oppression actually requires a lot of standing up to oppressors, punching back when asking nicely doesn’t work, taking back what was stolen, taking what is our right and what we need to survive and overthrowing those who cling to power. Since a lot of people with undeserved riches and power are unlikely to give that up willingly, achieving justice actually usually requires hurting people. 

[sketchshark]

I’ve been doing a series of comics about men being deceived by makeup. 

[thebrightlightsofamerica-blog]

This is the best comic series I’ve ever seen

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[actualsufjan-deactivated2016092]

this guy in my biology class sent this to me when i asked if he did the homework

[renaden]

google is amazing

[death-420]

i have a gif of a stockvideo of a naked girl eating a croissant she holds it and laughs then looks at it then looks back at the camera again then laughs some more she keeps looking back and forth smiling and laughing then she finally takes one tiny bite and shes acting like its the best thing shes ever eaten and she just keeps looking at the camera like “oh yea u like that” its too big to upload and i dont want to shorten it bc every minute of it is gold

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[wretchedoftheearth]

I do find it funny that lesbians are perceived as man-hating but gay men are not perceived as woman-hating, and in fact are often illogically shielded from accusations of misogyny simply by being gay

[fauxmosexualtranstrender]

weird it’s like male privilege works even when queerness is involved who knew

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