No Time, No Matter

Here, a poem: [abridged]

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:42:31 -0400

cracking voice of “us”-
Dissonance springs from
Making a mistake
(question-mark)
Act I: Finale
wake up
intentions
love, the ability to:
Time: N/A
words form wilderness
wordless world- meaning
born by void in brain-
storm- avoid no
seeds sew heart-cloth -
remember home- no where
is water lily self-
home is crow, crane-
befriend
the creature home
whatever
anything
means.

_/ Here, a poem: \_

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:27:45 -0400

_/ Playing music:

transform

joy/pain/strangeitude of “me”

into melody/harmony/cracking voice of “us”-

Dissonance springs from “why”

And “Hallelujah” \_

_/ Making a mistake in front of someone:

in front of all

the world, a stage

contains

(question-mark)

characters-

Act I: Finale

“This Is No Rehearsal” \_

_/ Doubting- Questioning- Unsure of- my actions:

I can wake up

I can come to

better understand

my intentions- \_

_/ This poem, writing-

love, the ability to:

Time: N/A \_

_/ 4 pm \_

_/ “Undertow” \_

_/ Writing a poem, reading this and that: \_

_/ find words form wilderness

in wordless world- meaning

borne of restless void in brain-

storm- avoid no weather

patterns repeat patterns

repeat patterns reap-

seeds sewn to heart-cloth like water lilies float-

remember home- get rid of no where \_

_/ pause- \_ _/ home is water lily self-

home is crow, crane, ghost, plant- \_

_/ above all other ‘above all else’s’, \_

_/ above all else, befriend \_

_/ the creature home \_

_/ you call your self- \_

whatever all this

if anything

means.

_/|\_

humortrain: sarahseeandersen wait yes exactly!

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:38:39 -0400

humortrain:

sarahseeandersen

wait yes exactly!

fuckyeahfeminists: ahvahtlom: felixlovesyou: takealookatyourli...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:35:05 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

ahvahtlom:

felixlovesyou:

takealookatyourlife:

heroicallyfound:

svetlana-del-rey:

Was she going to slap you because you never in any way made him gay in the actual books, taking zero risks/doing absolutely nothing for gay characters in literature, and only announcing your “authorial intent” afterwards for a cheap shot at looking like an ~ally~

^^^

Gay people are just normal people. We are not told about any of the Hogwarts professors love lives, other than Snape, and it would be completely out of character for Dumbledore to walk around telling everyone about his sexuality.

Did you want her to make him dress in glittery platform boots, a crop top, and decorate his office in rainbow flags to make it more obvious for you? Would that be enough of a stereotype to appease you people? Or what? Please tell me. I’d like to know how you think a gay character is supposed to be portrayed.

And did you miss the Grindelwald chapters in the ‘actual books’? Or was that also not obvious enough for you? Did Dumbledore need to whisper “always” wistfully in order for you to connect that he had romantic feelings for Grindelwald? Maybe you are American and need them to gaze longingly into each others eyes with awkward close ups of their fingers almost grazing each other that Hollywood thinks means ‘true love’.

It didn’t fit into his relationship to Harry to ever say “I’m gay”, and so it was not stated explicitly (you might have noticed the book was told from Harry Potter’s perspective).

The point is though, that he is a homosexual, well respected, powerful, and very loved wizard- and his sexuality doesn’t matter because no one else thinks it matters. a.k.a. no one cares that he loves men, and that is wonderful.

^ THANK

BOOM

Reblogging for last commentary because I really appreciate that. It challenges that many of us see hetereosexual as the norm. We really didn’t know about love lives of the professors in the book and yet we know that Rowling still made her characters way more whole than they were portrayed in the books (just check out the extra details in Pottermore (psst. add me: FireboltLight20324). I think Dumbledore being gay does normalize other sexual orientations within the wizarding world. This isnt to say that HP was a perfectly feminist world by any means.

River Street

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:11:10 -0400

Had I that day alone–

that day to have not

known you, then,

I would’ve rolled

along that old

unobstacled

road-more-like a

wood-beside-the-water

path.

I would have

two-wheel rolled

a– long– with– fre– quent–

bumps, but on the wood

I would have rolled along

without a fall– (ing for-

ward)––– toward the rush

of River Street where I grew

up when I stepped outside

the thick flat ladder crosswalk lines.

I grew when I learned that lines

and motion are what define…

I followed invisible tracks

through Michigan snow,

dragging feet to make lines

to make a new road to make

a new world to do ––– something–––

with my self.

Up and down I grew when

I cycled up River Street and

stopped down by the

wooden river path,

the path right by the river.

I was that day alone

It was that day I learned

I know and

I know

and I know you

and I

not quite.

“It pains me to think that girls are being taught to hate other...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:43:36 -0400

“It pains me to think that girls are being taught to hate other girls. Society has us pitted against each other and seems to want to keep us from being whole and healthy as individuals and as a group. We should be and need to be celebrated by each other so that we can stand united and fight against injustice toward our gender.” - Sarah McDonald, Why Women Should Hate the Patriarchy Instead of Each Other

not-thefunniestblog: “homework” “season finale” “clicking publish instead of answer...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:27:04 -0400

not-thefunniestblog:

“homework”

“season finale”

“clicking publish instead of answer privately”

“trying to talk to someone you really like”

“responsibilities”

WILSON!! <3

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:25:52 -0400

WILSON!!

fuckyeahfeminists: amydentata: malakhgabriel: Backstory Do...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:36:22 -0400

fuckyeahfeminists:

amydentata:

malakhgabriel:

Backstory

Do they get together and hold meetings about how best to screw up trans inclusion?

:(

Photo

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:32:57 -0400

bryarly: “I’m sad.” “OK. I’ll lick you until you’re not...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:31:58 -0400

bryarly:

“I’m sad.”

“OK. I’ll lick you until you’re not sad.”

“…OK.”

The HRC’s red Equal sign went viral this week in support of gay marriage. You may have...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:57:32 -0400

The HRC’s red Equal sign went viral this week in support of gay marriage.

You may have noticed a Greater-Than (>) sign appear in a few profile pictures as well. It went mini-viral. With all the energy around this issue now, I’ve been reading up on the fight for marriage equality and thinking more critically about it.

Although it is silly to think that changing a profile picture will lead directly to any real change, it is important for me to change mine from = to ≥. In the spirit of encouraging and celebrating dialogue, and bringing another voice to the conversation, if only for the few people who read this, or even just for myself, I combined the = and > signs.

Here is a distilled version of what I’ve been learning and why this is now my profile picture:

The > sign comes from a group that stands for a critical - and frequently ignored - perspective… the perspective that says:

(A) The issue of gay marriage has gotten the lion’s share of attention, while in reality there are far more pressing issues for the LGBTQ community (ex: workplace/housing/other institutional discrimination, violence, bullying, homelessness).

(B) Gay marriage marginalizes many LGBTQ people. Its legal and economic benefits go mostly to those who are white and middle/upper class; those who already have a certain amount of privilege. Also, the debate is pretty much about cisgendered (i.e. not trans) folks. Anyone who identifies outside of the gender binary (man/woman) is omitted from the conversation. And if you’re not monogamous? Forget about it. Monogamy, even more than gender perhaps, is what marriage seems to be based on. Right? Of course right.

Therefore, we DO need civil/legal rights and economic/social justice for people in non-heterosexual relationships, but instead of assimilating into the institution of marriage and legitimizing our relationships based on it, we should be dismantling oppressive heteronormative structures and working towards a more inclusive society for everyone. Marriage should not be the label that legitimizes committed relationships in the eyes of the law nor of society.

OK. That’s what folks like the radical queer artist/writer group “Against Equality” say. (Read more about them here: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/working-against-equality-a-closer-look-at-queers-who-oppose-gay-marriage/)

I agree with this - mostly. Thing is, successful change doesn’t happen all at once. It takes years for civil rights to become broadly accepted by society; MLK’s dream grows nearer by the day, yet still (always?) seems just beyond our reach. The Civil Rights Movement(s) of the ’60s certainly did not land us in a racially just utopia. We still have a long way to go. But we need to start somewhere. In the case of LGBTQ rights, why not start with gay marriage? I say we push for the radical “agenda” of equal rights for ALL, while supporting the efforts of more mainstream groups that push for incremental changes, even if they achieve an imperfect, still-unequal sort of “equality.”

Another issue seems to be that the Human Rights Campaign promotes gay rights at the expense of other LGBTQ people - trans folks, for instance. This is total bullshit. Read more here: http://open.salon.com/blog/avimecca/2012/02/07/dont_support_human_rights_campaign

So all that’s why I jumped-on-the-equal-sign-profile-picture bandwagon, and why I changed it again, to the Greater-than AND Equal sign.

Lastly, here is a great article about why gay marriage is not THE answer to inequality: http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/beyond-marriage-democracy-equality-and-kinship-for-a-new-century/0/

so-relatable: Damn right I support it yes, AND...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:47:40 -0400

so-relatable:

Damn right I support it

yes, AND http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/beyond-marriage-democracy-equality-and-kinship-for-a-new-century/0/

a post about the subtitles on my harry potter vcd

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:28:11 -0400

jaymhensley:

so i found my old vcd-copy of harry potter and the chamber of secrets and… i don’t know what’s more entertaining, the movie or the subtitles.

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IS VOLDEMORT’S CAT.

"Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:31:14 -0500

“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.”

- Noel Ignatiev (via sonofbaldwin)

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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:59:25 -0500

mnair6: Tumblr on We Heart It -...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:29:18 -0500

mnair6:

Tumblr on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/51310998/via/Nair6

Photo

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:17:23 -0500

"When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside."

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:54:56 -0400

“When I am silent,
I have thunder hidden inside.”

- Rumi

(via fuckyeahrumi)

scooping up the ocean with cupped hands let all of who you are love this water because you are...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:12:32 -0400

scooping up the ocean
with cupped hands
let all of who you are
love this water
because you are you
because water is water

big water
big heart
too much to hold
no need to

this love
in each drop of water
falling from your hands
returns to its vast oceanness

scooping up the ocean
with cupped hands
now hold this love
now give it all away
because you are not you
because water is not water