#queer philosophers

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Good women make bad choices in men all the time because women who are attracted to men have to drastically lower their standards to ever get laid. When you're automatically lowering your standards all the time, it's easy to lose track of that level below which you should not dip. But to be fair, men run around accusing women of being fake and tricking them into relationships because they wear makeup, whereas there's an entire subset of men who trick women into relationships by pretending they won't ever punch them in the face.

“Don’t Read the Comments” by Copperbadge.

Sam is a an amazing writer who keeps writing in fandoms and pairings I have 0 interest in... And then I got a notification for an f/f original novel about a woman who wakes up with the power to delete any comment on the internet ever. It’s not invisibility or superstrength but can she make teh world a better place? Moral quandaries abound, a support network that rocks and just all around awesomeness (except for the yet to be written chapter 9 about a Jewish take on the dilemma!)

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Sentinel was looking at him stricken, his face open in a way Optimus hadn’t seen it in what felt like forever. Not since they’d been fresh cadets together, both of them trying so hard to be heroes. To make themselves into warriors, against their own programming; trying to be strong and tough and hard, and convincing themselves that was the definition of bravery. Except this was what it really meant to be brave: to choose something that terrified you, to give up everything you cared about, to keep going towards a small struggling spark of hope. It—was a lot harder. Optimus reached out and put his hand flat against the forcefield, wishing suddenly that he could reach through, take Sentinel’s hand, pull him into a hug. “All I can do is ask,” he said softly. “All you can do is try. Sometimes that’s all there is to do. To save something, even if we can’t save everything.”

Peacemaker, by Astolat (Megatron/Optimus)

So because this is Astolat, I read it the first time because obviously I would even though I always thought Transformers looked rather dumb. Now I keep re-reading it because it makes me cry every fucking time.

[conditionallyme]

Claudia Card goes best with 🥃 Bourbon. This is Card’s Theory of Evil. I’ve really been looking forward to reading this, not just because she was as out and in your face lesbian. Rather because she tackled a subject so often dismissed for lack of explanatory power.

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Pan," Hook said. "You saved my life." Peter didn't know what to say. He had gone back to rescue Hook so unthinkingly, so instinctually, that he was only now beginning to realize he had done it. He hadn't worried about a single thing besides protecting Hook. He cast around for a reason—an excuse, not the real reason, which he already knew. "I had to," he said finally. "If you'd died there, I wouldn't have been the one to defeat you." Hook gave a low chuckle. "Your obsession is flattering, Pan. And I share it." "Obsession?" "Is that not what they call it," Hook said, "when two men can think of nothing but each other?" Peter went still, feeling his ears go hot at the implication. Hook knew, he thought. Hook knew exactly what Peter had felt before, when Hook had pinned him down.

Peter Darling, by Austin Chant. OMG. I expected this to be good (A Peter Pan retelling where Wendy runs away to Neverland to be allowed to BE Peter? And where Hook is both foe and love interest?), and the cover alone was gorgeous enough to print out to stare at... but I did not expect this level of total undisputable awesome. Five starts. More quotes to follow, but go read NOW.

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“The large majority of teenagers who attend Higgs are soulless, conformist idiots. I have successfully integrated myself into a small group of girls who I consider to be “good people,” but sometimes I still feel that I might be the only person with a consciousness, like a video game protagonist, and everyone else are computer-generated extras who have only a select few actions, such as “initiate meaningless conversation” and “hug.”

― Alice Oseman, Solitaire. Caveat: haven’t read Oseman yet, but some truths need sharing!

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I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?

The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson

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Problem solving education dissolves the teacher/student dichotomy. it involves a constant unveiling of reality. The challenges/questionnaire real, related to the world, so they are interesting. Once again, the two educational concepts and practices under analysis come into conflict. Banking education (for obvious reasons) attempts, by mythicizing reality, to conceal certain facts which explain the way human beings exist in the world; problem-posing education sets itself the task of demythologizing. Banking education resists dialogue; problem-posing education regards dialogue as indispensable to the act of cognition which unveils reality. Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming—as unfinished, uncompleted beings in and with a likewise unfinished reality. Indeed, in contrast to other animals who are unfinished, but not historical, people know themselves to be unfinished; they are aware of their incompletion. In this incompletion and this awareness lie the very roots of education as an exclusively human manifestation. The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. Accordingly, the point of departure must always be with men and women in the "here and now," which constitutes the situation within which they are submerged, from which they emerge, and in which they intervene. Only by  starting from this situation— which determines their perception of it—can they begin to move. To do this authentically they must perceive their state not as fated and unalterable, but merely as limiting—andtherefore challenging. A deepened consciousness of their situation leads people to apprehend that situation as a historical reality susceptible of transformation. Resignation gives way to the drive for transformation and inquiry, over which men feel themselves to be in control. If people, as historical beings necessarily engaged with other people in a movement of inquiry, did not control that movement, it would be (and is) a violation of their humanity. Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire

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But only the poets-not the novelists, allies of representationalism. Because poetry involves gaining strength through the unconscious and only inscriptions of femininity that I have seen were by Colette, Marguerite Duras, . . . and Jean Genet because the unconscious, that other limitless country, is the place where the repressed manage to survive: women, or as Hoffmann would say, fairies.

The Laugh of the Medusa (link to text), Helene Cixous