March 2013
26 posts
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.
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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...
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Daniel Spaulding on Communization, Occupy and the... →
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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...
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.
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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”...
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February 2013
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Creating Queer Communities Through Art (via... →
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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!
January 2013
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500 Words from Tracey Emin (Artforum.com) →
Tracey Emin, Reversable, 2012, gouache on paper
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December 2012
9 posts
“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)
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Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco Among Hundreds on... →
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November 2012
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