Falling Up

I'm Gurt

[beardedwonder16]

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

‘Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Oscar Wilde

[safesexplus-blog]

a guide directed for FTM transition was already posted, so I pulled up some old links I had bookmarked for dmab/transgender women to aid transition!  breastforms  sewing pattern for silicone bead forms low budget diy breast forms [video]  creating cleavage with bras [video]  “illusion” cleavage with makeup [video]  tucking/gaffe  tucking and creating gaffe [video]  tucking forum and thread  wigs and hair quality low budget wigs cute hairstyles on pinterest more cute short femme hair hairstyle guide & beauty makeup  beginner looks and tutorials quality makeup for less money choosing foundation ask mod li about makeup

surgery & hrt guides  surgery booklet  hrt booklet housing, crisis lines and help  trans-friendly shelter guide self harm & lgbtq support stay safe! xoxo ♡ mod li

EDIT: It has been brought to my attention that susansplace can potentially have triggering material and users. Please proceed with caution. EDIT: Post bugs and links have been fixed. 

[amroyounes]

Economies and corporations explained using cows

[tommyingberg]

[lensblr-network]

“Gather” 2015

photo by tommyingberg.tumblr.com

[santanabellas]

hayes valley, san francisco, ca // cc: santana bellas

[fuldagap]

Towards the liberation of Palestine and the establishment of a democratic society. (1970)

[purplebuddhaproject]

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

 Rumi (via purplebuddhaproject)

[jesimahcah]

[micdotcom]

In 2015, U.S. police officers killed 1,152 people.

59 of the 60 largest police departments killed at least one individual or let someone die in custody.

14 U.S. police departments killed black people exclusively in 2015 — which is far more than the departments that killed only white people.

[petra-von-kvnt]

Hey people, really really scary shit has happened with one of the women who was previously living in Camp True Love, a collective womens house that got evicted by a fucking evil slumlord. She is a houseless, disabled, trans women who was recently incarcerated outside of the state all of her support is in. People are trying to get funds together to help pay bond and get her back here, any money would help, extra funds to this fundraiser would help a ton. The bail is currently at $2,000 but folks are trying to do labor to get it reduced.

[fucktherulesofsociety-deactivat]

[ffffixas]

[facelessbitchmage]

Students who considered themselves socialists were not so much interested in the poor as they were desirous of leading the poor, of being their guides and saviors. It was just this paternalism toward the poor that the vision of solidarity I had learned in religious settings was meant to challenge. From a spiritual perspective, the poor were there to guide and lead the rest of us by example if not by outright action and testimony. As a student I read Marx, Gramsci, and a host of other male thinkers on the subject of class. These works provided theoretical paradigms but rarely offered tools for confronting the complexity of class in daily life. […] [W]hen I told friends and colleagues that I was resigning from my academic job to focus on writing, I was warned that I was making a dangerous mistake, that I could not possibly live on an income that was between twenty and thirty thousand dollars a year. When I pointed to the reality that families of four and more live on such an income, the response would be “that’s different”; the difference being, of course, one of class. The poor are expected to live with less and are socialized to accept less (badly made clothing, products, food, etc.), whereas the well-off are socialized to believe it is both a right and a necessity for us to have more, to have exactly what we want when we want it.

bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters, chapter 4 (via snailfan)

“Students who considered themselves socialists were not so much interested in the poor as they were desirous of leading the poor”

so much fucking truth in this

(via uhbutwhytho)

[s-hayashi]

The Nation : 150th special anniversary issue, 2015

The year 2015 marks The Nation’s 150th anniversary. We’re publishing a very special anniversary issue, one of the longest in the magazine’s long history.

268 pages : Download a PDF of the full special issue.

Pick-up Articles

Toni Morrison: No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear

Noam Chomsky: Killing the Commons Illustrated by Milton Glaser

E.L. Doctorow: Home

Henry James: Mr. Walt Whitman

Albert Einstein: Was Europe a Success?

Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick: When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary

John Dos Passos: Big Parade—1936

John Steinbeck: On the Violent Repression of the Fight for Migrant Workers’ Rights

Hannah Arendt: French Existentialism

Jean-Paul Sartre: Americans and Their Myths

W.E.B. Du Bois: I Won’t Vote

Howard Zinn and Paula J. Giddings: When Respectability Was No Longer

Hunter S. Thompson: The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders

James Baldwin and Carrie Mae Weems : James Baldwin: A Report From Occupied Territory

E.P. Thompson: East, West—Is There a Third Way?

Edward Said: There Cannot Be Peace and Security Until the Cause of Palestinian Suffering Is Addressed

Poems From the Archives

Robert Frost: The Bear

Sylvia Plath: Two Views of a Cadaver Room

Frank O’Hara: Present

William Butler Yeats: Hound Voice

W.H. Auden: The Fall of Rome

Claude McKay: Home Song

John Berryman: Dream Song

Allen Ginsberg: Now and Forever

Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things

Adrienne Rich: Parting

Anne Sexton: The Starry Night

LeRoi Jones: Tight Rope

Elizabeth Bishop: Varick Street

Marianne Moore: The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

William Carlos Williams: The Injury

Mahmoud Darwish: And We Love Life

[anarcho-queer]

“Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.”

- Excerpts from “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For” (Anarchism and Other Essays, 1910) by Emma Goldman

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Philadelphia: Protest against 2016 Mummers bigotry, January 1, 2016.

For the first time since the 1960s, a hundred protesters confronted the Mummers New years Day parade. Signs included a range of issues, such as Justice for Tamir Rice, Save our Schools, Fight for $15, No Human is Illegal, and Wenches ain’t shit!. The Philly Coalition for Racial, Economic and Legal Justice organized the demonstration, which tried to disrupt the parade several times. Three protesters were arrested. Some Mummers wore black-face and others held signs disparaging the Black Lives Matter movement.

Photos and report by Joe Piette

[thisisnotthemasterson-blog]

where did gurt come from? is that your preferred name now?

Opps, I realize I never responded to this.  

I just made Gurt up one day.  I prefer to go by Gurt, but going by David doesn’t irritate/bother me.  My whole family and lots of friends calls me David and I don’t mind it.  I usually introduce myself to people I don’t know as gurt.