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shoujo-nosferatu

Dwarves are heavy.

hailthegodsong

Josh and Danny’s reactions to Jake leaking the album title is killing me

mushroom-punk

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

apolladay

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 5 days 16 hours

#:)

samueldelany

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

"Bodyminds Reimagined reveals how nonrealist representations can defamiliarize categories assumed to be self-evident, opening up new ways of thinking about methodology, trauma, metaphor, and politics. Schalk's work pushes all of us in feminist studies, black studies, and disability studies to reimagine how we understand minds and bodies moving though the world.” - Alison Kafer, author of Feminist, Queer, Crip

"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." - Grace Gipson, Black Perspectives

#reading list

adz

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now

dietspam16

mens-rights-activia

I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, a very big thank you to my tumblr community. I don’t think I would be anywhere without the constant love and support I receive from you all on here. I’m endlessly grateful to the wonderful and vibrantly unique souls I’ve had the pleasure to be in the company of on here. I’ve had many ups and downs, many achievements and disappointments, but through it all I know I have solace here. Thank you all, I hope I can make you all very proud someday, as I am of you 🥺❤️🫂

#ena tumblr would not be the same without you