March 2013
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Queer Embraces: guide to getting lost →
queerembraces: The seam meets him at a party one night, at a mutual friend’s house & the attraction is, for a change, equal. It’s something beyond the way he speaks: the tone of his voice, gentle and sweet, the way he challenges what I utter, something purer, something just beyond language, pre-cartographic.
Mar 16th
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“Young people are stringing together multiple unpaid internships, and it’s not...”
– Unpaid internships: the most precarious work of all | Toronto Star Is anybody really goddamn surprised? A generation nobody seems to want to employ is instead offering their skills—by the way, they’re one of the most educated generations to date!—for free, because that’s what people told us we’d...
Mar 16th
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Daniel Spaulding on Communization, Occupy and the... →
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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“Tumblelogs, by construction, breaks this experience up: Unless you visit...”
– Jörg Colberg, The Problem with Tumblr and Photography (via hyperallergic) This is precisely why I’m often left feeling overwhelmed by tumblr. I prefer going through folk’s tumblr’s individually; this is why you’ll see my like 5-10 of your posts all at once; it also makes for...
Mar 7th
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Pelosi Backs Bill That Would Raise Minimum Wage To... →
stfuconservatives: Yes! I was really concerned that after the SOTU excitement died down, lawmakers would forget about the minimum wage thing. Pelosi and two other Dems are backing a bill that would make the minimum wage $10.10 an hour and index it to inflation in the future. HUGE deal.
Mar 7th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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“If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still...”
– Pam Oliver, a professor in the UW-Madison sociology department, explaining the historical roots of racism in the United States to her undergraduate students (mostly middle-class and White).  I try to use this when I teach race now, too, to get past the defensive “but why are you BLAMING ME”...
Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 3rd
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Mar 1st
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February 2013
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Feb 28th
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Creating Queer Communities Through Art (via... →
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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storiadellarte: prussiatheninja: set-your-spirits-f-r-e-e: my teacher just said van gogh was the 19th century version of instagram “hay guise trimmed ma beard lol” “omg guise just tidied ma room” “omg guise look at dis view, no filter xoxox” “chilling in da club” “NEW SHOES OMG” IM G ONNA Oh god I’m crying! ~Ron YES!
Feb 28th
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January 2013
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500 Words from Tracey Emin (Artforum.com) →
Tracey Emin, Reversable, 2012, gouache on paper
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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December 2012
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Dec 22nd
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“No homo” is for dummies. Jay-Z doesn’t say “no homo” in interviews. But you...”
–  Mykki Blanco on the phrase “no homo”  (via teenwitch)
Dec 12th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 4th
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Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco Among Hundreds on... →
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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November 2012
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Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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