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cornbread con frijoles
"Desire is never politically correct"
-Cherríe L. Moraga
Open Tabs
I’m putting links to my open tabs here, because it’s getting kind of ridiculous and I need to restart my computer and bookmarking them would just mean me losing them in oblivion. This collection is pretty much what is happening in my brain all the time.
Purvi & Chuck: Community Lawyering
http://www.organizingupgrade.com/index.php/modules-menu/community-organizing/item/71-purvi-amp-chuck-community-lawyering
Social Justice Leadership: Transformative Organizing
http://www.organizingupgrade.com/index.php/modules-menu/community-organizing/item/69-social-justice-leadership-transformative-organizing
Marriage Amendment Opposition Called One of NC’s Largest Grassroots Efforts
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F26263-1
Obama’s Declaration, North Carolina’s Gay Marriage Ban, and Next Steps in LGBT Organizing
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/05/09/obamas-declaration-north-carolinas-gay-marriage-ban-and-next-steps-in-lgbt-organizing/
The Collective Tarot: Round III (Thanks Diego!)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1249459446/the-collective-tarot-round-iii
How to Kill Your Creativity
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/how-to-kill-your-creativity-2/
Sylvia Rivera Trans Movement Founder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnH0HB0lqc
Call for Submissions: Nearly There, A Queer People of Color Zine
http://hellagay.tumblr.com/post/21651465171/call-for-submissions-nearly-there-a-queer-people-of
Take This Hammer (James Baldwin)
http://vimeo.com/13175192
Blackness is the Fulcrum
http://racefiles.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/blackness-is-the-fulcrum/
Pretty Queer
http://www.prettyqueer.com/
Sandra Cisneros with Dorothy Allison
http://vimeo.com/9241859
The Day after NC’s Amendment One…
OUR WIN IS BIGGER!
No Queer Girls Are Queerer Than Others: Resisting Femme Invisibility
“It’s an over-the-top, rule-breaking, twisted femininity that pushes back against both the worship and subsequent attempts at naturalization of masculinity and androgyny and the valorizing of one very specific and narrow brand of white-hetero-cisgender-femininity,”
Yes, please, and thank you!
A Few People with Guts: Rural Organizing for Liberation for All
“Much of SONG’s rural work is much like this—in the seeing of each other, the building each other up, the concrete risks, and the small wins. It is not always about huge marches or flashy campaigns—sometimes it is about changing the landscape of a small town with homemade signs—playing to our strengths—we are grassroots and we should be proud. Our signs are copied at the public library, our folks have to take off work to go to meetings. Our opposition wants us to feel our actions don’t count—but for hundreds of closeted LGBTQ people in Wayne County it DOES make a difference when they see our signs, or read in the paper that this resolution was defeated. It matters to see our faces, and it matters that we re-shape the stories in our towns about us, into our own truths and visions.”
SO proud of my comrades in Goldsboro, NC. Y’all help me remember why I moved back to my huge rural Virginia county of small town hearts where we fight to be seen every day. <3
Ahhhh, this is SO much better than the TWO HOURS of the pope praying that I watched this weekend.
Mexican Activists Protest Pope’s Visit
Gay and women’s rights activists denounce Pope Benedict’s visit to Mexico.
(Source: reuters.com, via fuckyeahmexico)
whitney: an attempt at tribute.
“i found, with singing some non-gospel song, that the relationship between queerness and song that worried me since before puberty began was not relegated to the church … but that the performance of someone like whitney could also tattle. a choice had to be made: to continue to listen to her background ubiquity with pleasure, to sing anyway; or to stop, become quiet, and withdrawn. i chose the latter for a very long while because i could not untangle my sense of erotic, libidinal difference from such songs — sacred or secular. but in the background, in the underground, underneath, all this music still moved me. and moves me still.”
We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity | RADICAL FAGGOT
“My truest hope for the future of my community, and of all queer communities, is that we let go of suspicion–that we love and respect all of our incredible ways of being as subversive, and as having the potential to unite us in radical efforts.”
(Source: calloutqueen, via girl-germs)
5 Tips For Queer Boys By Yosimar Reyes
Illustrated by Julio Salgado
Tip #1
(via fabianromero)
