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Do you make zines, chapbooks, pamphlets or other self-made media? Are you part of an organization that does? Then come table at NYC Feminist Zine Fest: February 28th 2016 at Barnard College! If you have any questions feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]. *We recognize that "zine" and "feminist" are imperfect terms that can reference whiteness-centering and otherwise exclusive communities - both these terms are broad and open to interpretation.
this is such a #look
did capitalism say something problematic
identifying as “queer” stopped being empowering once it became an expectation instead of a deliberate statement
I took this hella old "butch or femme" quiz (http://members.tripod.com/~womens_voices/BF100/BF100.html) and I feel like this question is a particularly sore spot for Latinas lol I got "soft androgyne"?
some-random-musings said: Well, I feel like part of doing the multiple online presence is trying to figure out what/who you want to focus on for that particular network, then trying to kinda limit it to that as much as possible.also, I feel like having 1 primary network helps
Yeah totally. Facebook is the most practical and immediately useful (events, messenger), tumblr has the best theory/culture/gifs, instagram has pretty pictures and is the lowest threshold, and I also lurk on Twitter mostly so I can yell at celebrities and follow political happenings. So I have different functions for all of them but it’s way too much (even just Facebook, I haven’t been on in a few days and have 50+ notifications). Maybe this is why people link their different accounts.
I've been seriously slacking on Tumblr. I feel like I don't have the energy anymore (if I ever really did?) to consistently maintain multiple online presences but I also feel like if I don't I'll disappear. So not sure what to do with that.
here’s the deal with self care, for me:
pleasure, in the fun late-capitalism hellhole of present-day america, is treated like a luxury. it’s expensive. it’s frivolous. it’s guilty. if we want to eat ice cream out of the carton and be socially acceptable at the same time, we’d better have earned that ice cream. maybe by like running a marathon or getting dumped by an asshole. if we’re going to duck into the corner store and buy fresh flowers, it’s because we’ve had a hard week, not because flowers are nice. we can take a day off work, but only if we’re sick. we have to suffer before we’re allowed extra kindness.
in this equation pleasure is optional (irresponsible, even), except when it’s a balm for suffering.
however! we need pleasure to live. a life without nice feelings in it is like a diet with no vitamins in it. it’ll make you sick and eventually it’ll kill you. we know this because people with depression stop feeling pleasure, and they often kill themselves. left untreated, depression is a fatal disease.
pleasure is not optional. pleasure is not a luxury. without it, we die. that is literally the opposite of a luxury.
because pleasure is treated like a luxury, and priced accordingly, it is fucking hard to get. it’s hard to take time to relax and see loved ones when corporations aren’t required to offer paid vacation. it’s hard to buy that special face scrub or art print or pretty yarn when it costs $35 and student loans are breathing down your neck. so pleasure gets saved up for when things are really bad. pleasure gets budgeted. pleasure, once again, becomes something we have to earn by abstaining and hurting and gritting our teeth.
do this to people long enough and pleasure becomes potently associated with guilt. this thing we need desperately to stay alive is suddenly something we can’t seek out without looking over our shoulder and wondering if we’re allowed to have it.
that’s why it’s so important that we talk about self care, and tell ourselves and each other that it is okay to do things that feel good. it is necessary to do things that feel good. we have to uncouple suffering and pleasure, because the idea that we have to earn feeling good by first feeling bad is monstrous and wrong.
take care of yourselves, darlings. don’t feel bad about it.
Nice thing to see first thing at the top of my tumble feed : }
*goes up to gay couple* so who is the healer and who is the tank
For my work's "mental health month"
They're doing a "Self Love Webinar" for staff. I mean I feel like self-love at work is probably distracting so I've been avoiding it until now but hey, if you insist.
Godspeed You! Black All Emperor
“All Emperors matter, sweetie ;)”
More job microaggressions
- New Supervisor never refers to the driver of the Mobile clinic by his name to patients or visitors, just "the driver." It sets my teeth on edge every time. - New Supervisor doesn't speak any Spanish... Which is FINE! I get it's hard when you didn't grow up with a language to learn it and feel confident to speak it. But like, he doesn't even try to learn basic phrases which is frustrating when all of our patients today have been Spanish-speaking and (again) he was hired as the head of two health programs for underserved queer and trans folks. It wouldn't even be that bad if I didn't have to be his personal translator and like, he maybe said thank you once in a while because it's work too!
Most mass murderers do not go from zero to 60. Rodger made escalating assaults on women (splashing coffee on them, attempting to shove them off a ledge) before his killing spree. Both Cho and Justin-Jinich’s murderer harassed women before they killed anyone. When such acts go unnoticed and unpunished — because we expect men to harass women, and it’s not outrageous or even noteworthy when they do — they can become stepping-stones to more conspicuous and less socially acceptable acts of violence.
Raina Lipsitz
Interesting to note that while a history of animal cruelty is widely accepted to be a link with becoming a serial killer, the link between cruelty towards women and killing women is still up for debate. If a guy abuses a cat and then shoots women we say “we should have seen it coming that guy was nuts”, but if abuses women and then shoots women we say “we had no way of seeing it coming that guy was a perfectly polite, kind and wonderful human”.
(via marxisforbros)
A white woman can say that a neighborhood is “sketchy” and most people will smile and nod. She felt unsafe, and we automatically trust her opinion. A black man can tell the world that every day he lives in fear of the police, and suddenly everyone demands statistical evidence to prove that his life experience is real
Fact Check: Your Demand for Statistical Proof is Racist » Cyborgology (via lesscontrived)
“play dead,” I say to my dog. he stares at me. he does not move. he only stares. I look into his eyes. he’s not staring at me, I realize, but through me. he finally moves, but only to adjust his gaze to some indefinite point in the distant sky. he’s dead on the inside. “good dog,” I whisper.
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It’s really annoying to get these ~employee health and wellness~ emails from work with condescending tips like “get enough sleep” and “remember to breathe” like fuck you I know how to breathe maybe like increase staffing to support increases in patient volume and don’t stigmatize taking sick leave if you’re concerned about employee health 😑
