Queer Ink

Welcome to Queer Ink! We are Quinks, a group of young queer writers from across the UK. Queer Ink is a place to share the experience of being Young, Queer and Free. Here you’ll find Quirk and Comment, Journalism and Jokes. We encourage comments and conversation on all articles posted here. This project is about building community and sharing our hearts and heads, so don’t be shy! Explore the site and stay a while! lots of riot love, Quinks

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if you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her maybe you should take a look at your hands

(via masturbationdestination) these words are lovely ~ Emma

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mergirls are my favourite feminist emblem ~ Emma

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perf ~ Emma

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"Whether in the form of a film or a book, or whether the recorder is a filmmaker or an anthropologist, or whether an account must be condensed to a paragraph or fills a 300-page monograph, we must still be accountable for the consequences of our representations and the implications of our message—because they matter."

D. Soyini Madison, “Introduction to Critical Ethnography.”

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mmm dat anthropology theory ~ Emma

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The next time you see someone with jewelry that says “trust no man,” don’t judge them for their “man hating” or “bougie” ways. Rather, commend them for their superb taste in music.

“Trust no man” is actually a reference to a reference to a 1926 song of the same name by Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, a Georgian and African-American pioneer of blues music. 

I want all you women to listen to me

Don’t trust your man no further than your eyes can see

I trusted my man with my best friend

But that was a bad bargain in the end

A feminist before there was really a term for it, Rainey was also notorious for getting into trouble with small-town authorities over her “women-only parties.” She was a brazen lady-lovin’ badass well-worthy of a 21st century signal boost.

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Ma Rainey literally had a song Prove it On Me Blues where she pretty much said “I’m a big fat lesbian but you’re never going to catch me and if you dont think thats some of the dopest shit i dont wanna talk to you

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This makes me so happy to know <3 ~ Emma

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HERE’S TO NEVER EVER GROWING UP TOGETHER a teenage lesbian jukebox musical

Remember this? Yep. Oh god what have I wrought. 

Also, scientific proof that I am totally Katie’s bitch forever.

RAISE YOUR 22 GLASSES p!nk vs. taylor swift HEART ATTACK IN THE USA miley cyrus vs. one direction SMILE YOU’RE 22 taylor swift vs. avril lavigne C’MON STARLIGHT taylor swift vs. ke$ha UNTOUCHED SMILE avril lavigne vs. the veronicas WE ARE COMPLICATED taylor swift vs. avril lavigne I KNEW YOU HAD A HEART ATTACK taylor swift vs. demi lovato WHO SAYS I WANT U BACK selena gomez vs. cher lloyd CLOSER AGAIN tegan and sara vs. miley cyrus GROWING UP HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING taylor swift vs. avril lavigne HERE’S TO NEVER EVER GROWING UP TOGETHER avril lavigne vs. taylor swift (DOWNLOAD)

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Taylor Swift mashups are my not-so-secret guilty pleasure and all I want from 2014 is a lesbian jukebox musical ~ Emma

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The idea that there are only two possible genders and that those genders are rigid and fixed is an organising principle of life in most modern societies. It affects everything, from how we dress to whom we can marry and what work we get to do to whether or not we will be paid for that work. Discussion of conditions such as intersexuality threatens all that. It gives the lie to the gender binary, exposing it as not just flawed, but scientifically inaccurate. And so we carry on shoving intersex and transgender folk to one side and forcing everyone who isn’t “normal” to damn well act that way or face harassment, discrimination and violence, from the playground to the pulpit.

- “Society needs to get over its harmful obsession with labelling us all girls or boys" by Laurie Penny. (via actuallyintersex) preach ~ Emma

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Living It | Queer at Christmas: Acceptance + Positivity 

Harriet talks about her experience of acceptance and love this Christmas.

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My Mad Fat Diary Series 2 : Coming this February.

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I'm so excited for the new season of this!  ~ Emma

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Shortpacked!: Genderless

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[hisses loudly] ~ Emma

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So, rock that double chin! Let it be part of your face and treat it like the adorable accessory that it is. Say goodbye to those chin-hiding ninja moves! Your chin is fucking awesome in all it’s glory and power. Triple chins, hairy chins, scarred chins, pointy, round and no-chins! (via The Nearsighted Owl: Double Chins Are Fierce)

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This makes me want to cry. I love body acceptance. It’s so fucking important to me. It keeps me sane and on this planet.

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Quinks, don't you let anyone tell you that your face is anything other than fucking fab. Whatever form your chin takes, I can guarantee you that it's beautiful ~ Emma

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'Butch' a Photo Book By Kanithea Powell

"I wanted to create something that moved people to conversation," Powell told The Huffington Post. "People talk all the time about how a butch woman is ‘supposed’ to dress and look. Well, these aren’t your typical flannel, mullet having, boot-wearing butches. This book forces you to rip the blinders off your eyes and look around and see how things are changing." - Huffington Post

You can buy the book here

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This is so wonderful!  ~ Emma

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legitimate criticism of feminism:

some feminist groups do not include transwomen

some feminist groups do not include disabled women

some feminist groups do not include Women of Color

some feminist groups practice violence against men

some feminist groups shame women who take on traditionally feminine roles or choose to dress/act feminine

some feminist groups are islamaphobic

what MRAs choose to focus on:

what about men

MEN thOUGH

MATRIARCHY

ALL FEMINISTS ARE BAD AND PRACTICE MISANDRY NO ALL EVERY SINGLE ONE

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[insert baby noises to represent MRAs] ~ Emma

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 I’ve  never seen these all together, so I thought I’d put them in a photoset. Made by the fantastic Kendra Wells on the Toast.

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These comics changed my life. ~ Emma

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Female-assigned intersex kids’ vaginal canal size is also assessed by doctors, to ensure that it’s long enough to fit a penis inside of it. Doctors might surgically construct or re-construct vaginas, which can result in a host of health problems and necessitate multiple, multiple surgeries. This is especially the case since most intersex kids have these surgeries very young, and when their bodies grow into their adult forms, more surgeries are necessary to keep their vagina size in proportion. Non-surgical methods are also used to increase or maintain vaginal length by regularly using medical dildos to stretch the vagina over months and years. (It’s kind of like braces for your vagina, but much, much worse.) Just like there are no standards for how long a clitoris “can” be before it’s classified as a penis, there aren’t absolute standards as to how long a vagina is for it to be of “normal” length. I had a dilation procedure performed for almost every exam I had with intersex doctors from the time I was 8 until I was 16, so that they could check how long my vagina was as I grew. I absolutely hated these procedures. I mean, imagine a man as old as your father or your grandfather, who you don’t know, inserting a medical dildo into you each time you saw him, knowing that you can’t question the doctor’s orders and just accept that you have to undergo these uncomfortable procedures for your health. Imagine a decade or so later, realizing that these procedures did nothing to track your health, and had everything to do with grown men feeling good about the fact that you could fuck some dude someday like a “normal girl”. That all those traumatizing procedures weren’t actually medically relevant at all, and it actually was within my right to refuse those examinations. I didn’t know any of that at the time. I also had no idea that I wouldn’t want to ultimately have the kind of sex they assumed I’d be having, adding yet another layer of this-was-totally-unnecessary/messed-up to my history. Other kids shouldn’t have to go through this. Other adults shouldn’t have revelations some day far into the future that what was happening to them WASN’T okay, and their traumatic feelings ARE valid, and the whole system of how intersex people are conceptualized and “treated” IS entirely fucked. And it’s gotta change. We’ve gotta change it.

—-Claudia at Autostraddle

I just read this article and was reminded once again how invisible the intersex community often is… we need to signal boost this shit to let people know that this kind of “medical treatment” is NOT okay.

(via bossybussy) Intersex oppression is patriarchy, it is heterosexism, it is misogyny; it is simultaneously violent and invisible. 

(via angryseawitch) It is this kind of violence that too often goes unchallenged, because it is hidden, unspoken. It's time to start talking about these experiences, and making the world listen.  ~ Emma

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Today in unnecessarily gendered products.

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earAMMO I am weeping with laughter  ~ Emma

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If your activism involves turning over tables and then leaving them there for minimum wage workers to clean up, please rethink. If your feminism involves “breaking glass ceilings” and leaving other women to sweep up the glass, stop.

Stealing Sexy Calendars isn’t Jesus, and it isn’t Radical. (via erikawithac)

If you have a voice, the ability to exercise your right to protest, think about why, and what you can do to make those things available for others. ~ Emma