wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]
Unfortunately, Kiley’s experience is pretty much what I’ve seen around here. Although I’ve never had the good fortune to visit SF, I’ve lived in far more accepting places than this place. As I said when I first started working in this area, the level of public, unabashed, unapologetic hatred expressed in my workplace used to […]
REMARKS MAKE BY LARRY KRAMER AT ACT UP/HealthGap DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OBAMA
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010, ST. REGIS HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY:
Obama is not my president. Obama is not your president. Obama does not like AIDS. Obama does not like gays. Now what are we going to do about it? Because we continue to […]
lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]
brownfemipower has a question about butch identity, http://flipfloppingjoy.com/2009/05/22/what-is-butch/
the whole conversation just rubs me the wrong way. it really irritates me when i see the binary of supposedly natural butchiness (just me in my sweats and comfortable shoes; i.e., not actively performing gender) shoved up against shiny and polished butch which implies that somehow too much […]
oiy. I’ve mentioned that my feminist book club feels oppressively heteronormative sometimes. often. ok. yeah: often they are heteronormative! i’m not at the punching walls state i was with the first team i worked with at my new job, but there’s a lot of educatin’ to do. or something.
i won’t get into details, but i […]
Luca, an organizer with Sex Worker Open University posted a comment to the fundamentalist feminism post I wrote earlier. In it, she pointed to the Sex Worker Open University blog, so I thought I’d promote it to a post, to give it a little more exposure. I wish I weren’t working longer hours, or I’d […]
as i’ve said before, i am not an ally. but i was just talking with a friend and it occurred to me that there are some figurations of ally that don’t ever seem to make sense — and probably aren’t really even uttered.
ally work typically comes from a critical race theory perspective, so it’s […]
Even though the gay community is made up of people of different ethnicities, races, cultures, and class backgrounds, it’s public face is pure over privileged white male. Right after the passing of prop 8 all over the news the white male gay leaders came out in force to verbally protest.
honestly. I think, collectively, a […]
Black homophobia isn’t especially galling because of their history in this country. White homophobia is especially galling because white conservatives have the resources and, my god, the energy to make defeating LGBT rights such a priority.
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Unfortunately this becomes a problem when, as the No on Prop 8 people did, gay marriage is presented as a […]
“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]
This is a good point, although Savage doesn’t make the conclusion I’m going to: It’s bigoted to expect queers to adhere to a certain normative model of what activism is supposed to look like, what counts as the right kind of activism, etc. I guess you could call it a kind of heteronormative bigotry or, […]
heh. cried in a good way both times:
i’ve about had it listening to parade of people telling me that the reason why prop 8 banning gay marriage passed in california was because gays and lesbians didn’t do enough outreach.
well, excuse me for feeling that, if you think that you deserve equal treatment under the law, then the least you can do is […]
OK. I alluded to this analysis already, but I hadn’t realized I wasn’t very clear until I repeated myself and realized, fromt he response, that it was too opaque the 1st time. Here, I’m showing Obama’s rhetoric consists of empty signifiers. How his speeches are “all things to all people”. What makes white ppl so […]
2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]
2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]
2006-09-24 19:36:06
Have you ever looked at Michael Berube’s blogroll? He ‘classifies’ the blogs like so:
* Those That Belong to the Emperor
* Those Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush
* Those Included in the Present Classification
* Those That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
* Fabulous Ones
It’s a wink at Foucault’s introduction to The Order […]
2006-09-16 21:52:22
KH kindly pointed out that ‘Sexuality Harassment’ is online. The chapter is from a book with Wendy Brown, Left Legalism / Left Critique. In this chapter, Halley argues that, to better represent the interests of heterosexual women as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people we need to abandon the sexual subordination theories […]
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