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teacakes: ourcatastrophe: lilacbootlaces: jane-potter: “Sylvi...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:07:26 -0400

ourcatastrophe:

lilacbootlaces:

jane-potter:

“Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.”

Source: thespiritwas

It is women like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson who started the Stonewall riots and queer liberation. 43 years later, trans women of color, the people who started the movement, are the people maligned and left behind by it.

In Sylvia’s words, “What the FUCK is wrong with you all?”

[[Trigger warning: suicide]]

Sylvia went home that night and attempted suicide.

Marsha Johnson came home and found her in time to save her life.

Sylvia left the movement after that day and didn’t come back for twenty years.

this is incredible, she is incredible, I highly recommend watching it

but I think the addendum re: the effect of this day on sylvia is really important

so often we valorise decontextualised moments of tough, articulate resistance and rage

and the suffering of the people who embodied them is not acknowledged, it’s uncomfortable, it’s not inspiring, we want them to stay tough and cool and stylish forever

which is particularly terrible when I think about how sylvia felt like that because of women like me — women who are now watching this video and feeling inspired and impressed and maybe a bit pleased with ourselves for finally having watched a speech by the famous and really cool to name-drop sylvia rivera

This is THE ABSOLUTE most punk, most beautiful shit I’ve ever seen.

"It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely..."

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:54:26 -0400

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

- David Levithan, Every Day (via weepling)

Emmanuelle and Qusar Khanh, Interior, 1978

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:54:23 -0400

Emmanuelle and Qusar Khanh, Interior, 1978

Photo

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:54:20 -0400

Photo

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:54:10 -0400

Video

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:42:44 -0400

crowcrow: Troubled Waters William Eggleston

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:21:55 -0400

crowcrow:

Troubled Waters

William Eggleston

ihaveabsolutelynoidea: legitimate criticisms of feminism: -transmisogyny and the lack of inclusion...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:22:01 -0400

ihaveabsolutelynoidea:

legitimate criticisms of feminism:

-transmisogyny and the lack of inclusion of transwomen

-the racist history behind it and the lack of inclusion of woc

-ignoring and invalidating women with disabilities

-pretty much anything that falls under lack of intersectionality

-internalized misogyny and girl hate

-promotion of political lesbianism

illegitimate criticisms of feminism:

-a feminist was really mean to me once

-they’re sexist against men

corinne day for “without you i’m nothing” (1998) booklet

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:20:02 -0400

corinne day for “without you i’m nothing” (1998) booklet

Seike F/W 2000

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:17:44 -0400

Seike F/W 2000

Photo

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:16:01 -0400

"She didn’t belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged..."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:55:00 -0400

“She didn’t belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that’s why she liked him—because he just thought she was crazy.”

- C. JoyBell C. (via misantropie)

This is why I hate Tumblr now.

jewist: untitled by laurenmarek on Flickr.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:44:25 -0400

jewist:

untitled by laurenmarek on Flickr.

"A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, [it is] an obsession..."

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:56:44 -0500

“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, [it is] an obsession about female obedience.”

- Lois Griffin (via feministquotes)

thedoppelganger: Yohji Yamamoto Fall 1998Photographers: Inez...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:04:08 -0500

thedoppelganger:

Yohji Yamamoto Fall 1998
Photographers: Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Model: Maggie Rizer

herbstzeitlose: Blood stains are seen on snow at the site of a...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:03:49 -0500

herbstzeitlose:

Blood stains are seen on snow at the site of a plane crash outside Almaty January 29, 2013. The passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty on Tuesday and broke into pieces when it hit the ground, killing all 21 people on board.

mirbeau: by Jason Eskenazi

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:31:21 -0500

mirbeau:

by Jason Eskenazi

darksilenceinsuburbia: Ed van der Elsken. Pierre et Paulette...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:29:42 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Ed van der Elsken. Pierre et Paulette Saint- Germain des Pres, 1952.

liquidclorox:

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:29:32 -0500

liquidclorox:

jesuisperdu: bharat sikka

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:29:24 -0500

jesuisperdu:

bharat sikka