the complete death of cool.

"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:35:34 +0200

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.”

- Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via tabularasae)

toomanyaskingquestions: Mission of Burma- That’s How I Escaped...

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:34:38 +0200

toomanyaskingquestions:

Mission of Burma- That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate

did I hold you back?
can I count on you
if I fall apart?

scarymarymoon: Blackstreet - No Diggity

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:25:46 +0200

scarymarymoon:

Blackstreet - No Diggity

Photo

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:03:29 +0200

uncool: The 244GL — Ich bin Champagner und du bist Scheisse

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:35:19 +0200

uncool:

The 244GL — Ich bin Champagner und du bist Scheisse

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:12:59 +0200

Veggie buffet!

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:53 +0200

Veggie buffet!

boystown: Algebra Suicide - Boys In Bed

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:15 +0200

boystown:

Algebra Suicide - Boys In Bed

boystown: Marie Möör - Prends-moi, prends-moi

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:20:31 +0200

boystown:

Marie Möör - Prends-moi, prends-moi

skatterbrainpop: OMG OMG OMG! Attention! OMG! So Allison and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:32:18 +0200

skatterbrainpop:

OMG OMG OMG! Attention! OMG! So Allison and Katie Crutchfield covering Grimes’ “Oblivion” for Rookie Mag’s May Theme Song is likely to be the best thing you’ll hear all week. It translates to their ragged, trebly guitar pop tendencies better than I could have ever expected and HELLO YES I’VE JUST CLICKED PLAY FOR THE 7TH TIME A ROW.

When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:31:13 +0200

When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.

Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner on Exploring Female Friendship in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’

nobunnyluvsyou: Human News (by dankemama) I’d much...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:58:21 +0200

nobunnyluvsyou:

Human News (by dankemama)

I’d much rather be at this place now.

strapazzolli: Dusen Dusen

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:55:40 +0200

strapazzolli:

Dusen Dusen

na-kim: An homage to coffee. Gouache on Paper

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:37:10 +0200

na-kim:

An homage to coffee. Gouache on Paper

Audio

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:33:35 +0200

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:22:13 +0200

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

-
When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

(via plasticbags)

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:21:41 +0200

Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:22:00 +0200

Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits

Found this lace thing in my laundry bag the other week. I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:16 +0200

Found this lace thing in my laundry bag the other week. I don’t know how it got there or to whom it belongs. Now it’s mine.

#GPOY

delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES RESOURCE LIST

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:17 +0200

delicate heresy: STREET TRANSVESTITE ACTION REVOLUTIONARIES RESOURCE LIST:

delicateheresy:

BOOKS, INTERVIEWS, AND ARTICLES

Stonewall - Martin Duberman

The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 - Donn Teal

“Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time” - Liz Highleyman (from Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)

“Marsha P. Johnson: New York City Legand” - Tommi Avicolli Mecca (from Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation)

“Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones” - Sylvia Rivera (from GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary)

“Rapping With a Street Transvestite Revolutionary: An Interview with Marcia Johnson” (from Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation)

‘I’m glad I was in the Stonewall riot’: Leslie Feinberg interviews Sylvia Rivera

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries - Leslie Feinberg

“A Woman for Her Time” - Riki Wilchins (from The Village Voice)

Sylvia Rivera: 1951-2002 - Michael Bronski (from Z Magazine)

Sylvia Rivera soundportraits interview (from New York Times Magazine)

Sylvia Rivera soundportraits update from July 4, 2001

Remembering Stonewall soundportraits transcript

Sylvia Rivera New York Times obituary

“Sylvia and Sylvia’s Children: a Battle for a Queer Public” - Benjamin Shepard (from That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation)

Sylvia Rivera’s talk at LGMNY, June 2001

“Still at the back of the bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s struggle - Jessi Gan

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” - Stephen L. Cohen

“Queens, Hookers, and Hustlers: Organizing for Survival and Revolt Amongst Gender-Variant Sex Workers, 1950-1970” - Mack Friedman

“Eliding trans Latino/a queer experience in U.S. LGBT history: José Sarria and Sylvia Rivera reexamined” - Tim Retzloff

“Sylvia Rivera: Fighting in Her Heels: Stonewall, Civil Rights, and Liberation” - Layli Phillips and Shomari Olugbala (from The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement)

“History or Myth? Writing Stonewall” - Benjamin Shepard

Transgender Warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman - Leslie Feinberg

“From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project” - Benjamin Shepard

“Sylvia Rivera: She was more than Stonewall” - jerimarie liesegang

“Amanda Milan and the rebirth of the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries” - Benjamin Shepard (in From Act Up to the WTO)

“Transvestites: your half sisters and half brothers of the Revolution” - Sylvia Rivera (from Come Out! Magazine 1971)

“Sylvia Goes to College: ‘Gay Is Proud’ at NYU” - Arthur Bell (from the Village Voice, October 15, 1970)

“Street Transvestites for Gay Power” (October 1971)

FILMS

Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson

Sylvia Rivera: Trans Movement Founder

Sylvia Rivera speaking at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade after being mocked and repressed by lesbian feminists and gay men

Clip from Market This featuring Sylvia

Sylvia Rivera at World Pride 2000

Changing House (a short documentary on Transy House)

Randy Wicker Interviews Sylvia Rivera on the Pier

Marsha P. Johnson home video

Marsha P. Johnson - People’s Memorial

Marsha P. Johnson In Person

Marsha P. Johnson at Baltimore Pride 1991

PHOTOGRAPHS

Marsha P. Johnson photo collection (by Randy Wicker)

Sylvia Rivera photo collection (by Randy Wicker)