We have a lot of work to do in terms of addressing the issues of hetronormativity, white supremacy, patriarchy, racism, environmental racism, domestic abuse, police brutality, capitalism, mental colonization, imperialism.. you know all these things that oppress us and we continue to rebel against..
That doesn’t mean that we don’t perpetuate some of these oppresive tendencies [...]
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Posted in brown + black, defining terms, intersections, thoughts, tagged intersections, race, whiteness, white, stuff white people life, brandon teena, lisa duggan, feminism, feminists, blogosphere on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
this is jsut a testerooo!
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I want yall to gargle this. Gargle is my alternative word to the verb google, since Google is most likely involved with or is actually the white, middle class, capitalist, patriarchal, sexist, racist, heteronormative entity also known as “The Man.” So gargle, instead, means bubble this shit around in your mouth. And then spit it [...]
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Okay, I’ve really been thinking about it more and “queer” to me just is the best word that I can come up with to use in life and for this blog. Queer doesn’t imply gender or sexual orientation. Queer also is an adjective. It’s a modifier. That means you are never a queer (unless you would [...]
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At the workshop called Creating the Brown and Black LGBT Agenda, at the Creating Change conference this Saturday, a very important issue was brought to the table– halfway through our time there. What exactly do we mean by Black and Brown? What people fall under these categories? It seemed that the 40 people in [...]
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Posted in defining terms, queer on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I want to give an explanation for why I’m calling us queer.
Here’s what good ol’ Wikipedia has to offer: The word queer has traditionally meant “strange” or “unusual,” but its use in reference to LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex,asexual, etc.) communities as well as those perceived to be members of those communities has [...]
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