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I love you, @traceyroth!!! You are seriously one of the most genuine, beautiful, and caring souls I’ve ever met. I feel so proud and honored to call you my sister, and better yet, my big. Congratulations<333

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still on a high from last night. so grateful for everyone, especially Carmyn.

on being a white person in multicultural/POC spaces

Over the course of the past few years, I’ve been learning how to engage with my race. This began with realizing that engaging with my race was actually a thing I needed to do. (I’m white, so part of my privilege is not having to think about race, ever.) Since I realized being white was actually a thing that I needed to be aware of, it’s been a process of coming to terms with my racial identity and realizing that white privilege has shaped so much of how I exist in the world, including its interactions with my class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, education, language and citizenship. I am sure my whiteness has dictated way more of my life than I could ever imagine, and also shapes my queerness and womyn-ness and upper middle class-ness in ways that are tangibly incomprehensible to me. So much of what I experience on a daily basis, where I am today, and where I will go in my life, is related to the way my white skin lets me move through the world.

In terms of location and space, though, what I have been thinking about recently in relation to whiteness is my own presence in multicultural spaces. I am a member of two organizations that are explicitly multicultural, which has broad and complex meanings and cannot be succinctly defined, but which have most certainly been birthed from struggles of people of color. With that knowledge, it is with great respect, humility, solidarity, and a certain level of discomfort that I enter these spaces. The discomfort does not stem from being around people of color. Rather, it is a discomfort that my presence in these environments is taking up space that came out of the struggles of people of color who came before me. It is a discomfort that by being in these spaces, I might challenge the sanctity of these spaces, ask a wrong question, make a wrong comment, and also a discomfort with discomfort. And I think that’s where the privilege comes in. I’m not used to being uncomfortable. I’m used to comfort—in most arenas of my life, I’m used to being comfortable, having food, shelter, clothes, books, people to talk to, people to admire, supportive teachers, expectations for greatness. I’m not used to being uncomfortable.

But it is in the times and places that I have been uncomfortable that I have grown the most. That I have learned the most about maybe, maybe, someday, being any ally.

And there is that word—ally. The word that has become such a site of tension. Allyship, especially white allyship, should not be taken lightly. It is not an end goal nor a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is not a simple concept nor an identity. It is stepping back and being quiet. It is understanding when to ask questions and when to sit with discomfort. It is checking yourself and leaving room to be checked. It is knowing that some spaces just aren’t for white people. It is also knowing that if you are a white person in a multicultural or POC space, sometimes you just need to shut up. And sometimes, it is admitting that you have no idea what it means to be an ally.

I have no idea what it means to be an ally. As I inhabit the spaces of multiculturalism, built out of the struggles of people of color fighting to be recognized by institutions that so desperately work to keep them out, I try to listen. I try to sit in discomfort. I try to know that solidarity takes time. And that maybe allyship will happen one day. But that day will not be the end. But a beginning.

#privilege #whiteness #reflection #phinuxi #multiculturalism #ally #solidarity

call out for BUTCHES and anyone who is sometimes/kinda/close to butch

As part of my Honors Thesis project in Gender and Women’s Studies, I am talking to folks who identify as butch. If you or your friends identify in some way with butchness or non-normative queer masculinities, I would love to talk to you about your experience with gender and expression sometime in the next few weeks. Feel free to message or email me to set up a time. There might be fresh baked cookies involved! My email is [email protected].

Please help me spread the word!!

#butch #gender #thesis #signalboost

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LOOKING FOR TRANSNATIONAL-TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEES TO INTERVIEW FOR THESIS

I am currently doing my undergraduate thesis, and I am looking for people who were adopted from a different country by parents that are of different race/ethnicity than them, for example, someone who was born in China and adopted by a white American couple. If you know someone or identify with this, please contact me at [email protected] or message this tumblr. YOU WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAWING FOR A $20 AMAZON GIFT CARD.

"When we fuck, our languages come together; they commingle and collide in acts of illicit translation, interpretation, and reinscription. Cumming across differences always occasions new opportunities for the production of erotic meaning."

Juana María Rodríguez

#queer #sex #butch #thesis

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apparently what i look like when i read tumblr/do homework. thanks twinzie <3

wanted: puppy

Dear Loved Ones and World at Large,

I sit at my kitchen table currently, flummoxed at the state of the world. I woke up this morning around 7:30 and continued watching last night's episode of the Rachel Maddow Show. After I pried myself out of bed, I relocated to where I currently sit and ate chocolate cereal out of its box, due to the lack of milk currently in my refrigerator. I proceeded to attempt to focus on writing my thesis, which, incidentally, is also on Rachel Maddow. However, in my frustration and current general disinterest in school, my mouse veered to the Google Chrome browser icon and I promptly opened Tumblr, to find a .gif set of some pugs bounding joyfully through grass.

And then I came to the decision that if I had a puppy, I would focus better and wouldn't be quite so sad about the state of the world. Not that I'm really that sad about it, but puppies just make life better. Because they're cute and cuddly and loving and always there. And it would want to play with me and cuddle me and run around all the time. And then I would stop asking everyone if I could have a puppy.

That's all. (and yeah, I guess I can wait until graduation. And I do realize it would just distract me more. But at least I'd be playing with a puppy instead of writing inane posts on Tumblr)

#rachel maddow #puppy #please #procrastination

amatorydaze

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truth.

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teaching is the most difficult and most rewarding thing i have done. it’s like a drug. even though i get up at 5:45 am every week day, even though i have not signed my contract (meaning i am actually not getting paid by lausd until october), even though i leave school at 6pm everyday, even though...

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my sister is amazing. I love you womyn and am so proud to know you. thanks for doing the work <3

tribute to p&r

someone close to me recently informed me that the full season 4 of Parks & Recreation is now on Netflix. So I've been watching it and re-falling in love with everyone.

Also my partner and I are going to be Leslie & Ben for Halloween. I need to find a checkered button up and a cute skinny tie.

#parksandrec #queer #me #procrastination

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CAT RON SWANSON

…isbetterthanyou

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I’m not sure if this is badass or hella disturbing. Probably both.

tumblr queerz: how social media and blogging shape queer youth, queer community, and access to queer identities

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this is how queer i am

So I was looking up Kacy and Cori from The Real L Word and basically falling in love with how cute they are and then I found an article about how they lost baby Charlie after 5 months and I started to cry.

#queer #love #the real l word

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Photo | DapperQ’s He Said/ We Said: Queer Ivy

Model | Mary J. Barbour

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can i haz?

habits, not the kind nuns wear

with school approaching way sooner than i can actually wrap my mind around, i'm trying to get into some new habits that will *hopefully* help my noisy mind and shoulders-up-to-my-ears tendencies

1. breathing exercises. literally, and figuratively, making sure i'm breathing

2. exercise, of the physical nature

3. honoring emotions instead of rationalizing them

i'm hoping writing these down and publishing them on the interwebz will help me keep to them. oh and in honor of school starting, i began reading a new theory book. transitioning from one type of fun reading to another whoohoo!

#school #anxiety #breathing #emotions