Month: May 2015
How the signs flirt
StandardAries: watches from a distance and kind of just groans angstily
Taurus: is super shy about it but is also really fucking adorable at the same time
Gemini: HEY FUCKER! YOU’VE GOT ONE HELL OF A PERSONALITY! LET’S GET DINNER SOMETIME
Cancer: compliments them, then backs off, then compliments them again, then backs off, then compli…
Leo: flirting? HA! Leos are too shy to flirt.
Virgo: makes a lot of fucking innuendos
Libra: you know, you look a lot like this fictional character that I really like-
Scorpio: you’re hot. I’m hot. let’s go cool off together. 😉
Sagittarius: dO YOU WANT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH BOTH OF US CONSENSUALLY KISS AND CUDDLE AND MAYBE HAVE THE SEXIES fuck too forward
Capricorn: is actually a really good flirter. jesus christ how to they do it
Aquarius: they don’t need to flirt. everyone else flirts with them
Pisces: gets all flustered and blushy
Delete this
Everytime you see it there’s a new person to watch
isnt that lady in the sundress the one that was yelling at the lady in the mac store in that one vine
shorty in front of the camera with the “I’m writing a letter to the general manager” haircut was hittin a cute lil two-step.
It’s like watching 10-15 different car crashes happen simultaneously.
I like how the police’s defense arguments now basically boil down to “black people are superhuman.”
StandardMike Brown aka The Incredible Hulk. He had the strength of 20 men and could withstand several bullets and still keep charging.
Freddie Grey apparently had a self-severing spine.
Ninja Trayvon and his eight arms, half man/half octopus (not a cop who did it, but still).
Fucking hell. It’s like Marvel are writing police reports now.
This has been the case for ages. In college, I listened to a chemist describe the fact that police officers used (inaccurate) science around cocaine making black men superhuman to increase that legal bullet gauges used against them.
Hit that play button 🐸☕️
This little girl is going BIG places.
the way she went off like that on live tv god fucking bless
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Welcome to Night Vale’s Tamika Flynn IRL
Hi y’all!
I’ve compiled a list of readings that speak to issues of nationalism, indigeneity, colonialism, and resistance/decolonization
The list is of course limited to what readings I’ve encountered at some point. They also come from a variety of academic disciplines and political movements (settler colonial studies, native studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, trans studies).
And, with a few exceptions, these files were legally uploaded and shared… a lot of the time by the authors themselves, which I feel the need to point out because I love when authors can/do share their work online for free. (I say this not because I’m worried about the sanctity of ‘intellectual property’ but because I’m worried about things being deleted.)
Also re-linking to this list of pdf readings, “Natives Read Too,” from The Yáadihla Girls!
human rights/war/nationalism/sovereignty
- “What Do Human Rights Do?” by Talal Asad
- “On Torture: Abu Ghraib by Jasbir Puar
- “From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human
Rights“ by Susan Koshy- “Necropolitics” by Achile Mbembe
- “Algeria Unveiled“ by Frantz Fanon
- A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
- History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postmodernism by Patrick Wolfe
- Who Sings the Nation-State? Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak
- “Where Lawlessness is the Law: The Settler Colonial Frontier as a Legal Space of Violence” by Julie Evans
- “1492: a New World View“ by Sylvia Wynter
- Frames of War by Judith Butler
- “Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics” by Patrick Wolfe
- Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin
transnational/native/postcolonial feminisms & feminist critiques:
- Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism – Trinh T. Minh-Ha
- “Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory“ -Hazel V. Carby
- “Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: An Interview with Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan”
- “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- “Feminist Problematizations of Rights Language“ by Jasbir Puar and Isabelle Barker
- Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty
- “The Subject of Freedom” by Saba Mahmood
- The Spivak Reader
- Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
- “Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India“ by Partha Chatterjee
- “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Gayatri Spivak
- The Politics of the Veil – Joan W. Scott
- “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy“ by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill
- “Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change” by Andrea Smith
decolonization, art, and resistance (not necessarily feminist):
- Edward Said and Critical Decolonization
- Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said
- “Decolonization is not a Metaphor“ by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
- “Decolonizing Antiracism” by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua
- Bury My Art at Wounded Knee / R.I.S.E
- The Boarding School Healing Project
- Center for Third World Organizing
- Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
queer theory/sexuality studies/native studies/trans studies
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock
- “Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities“ by Jasbir Puar*
- Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
- “Un-settling Settler Desires” by Scott Morgensen
Also the Unsettling America wordpress.- Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things – Ann Laura Stoler
- “Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept“ by Evan B. Towle and Lynn Morgan
- “Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran.” by Afsaneh Najmabadi
- “Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada and Israel: Articulating Two-Spirit and Palestinian Queer Critiques“ by Scott Lauria Morgensen
- “Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism” by Andrea Smith
*Actually just going to link to this page of Dr. Puar’s work because it’s great and relevant (and she also has a lot of work on Israel/Palestine).
critiques of humanitarianism/developmentalism:
- “Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflecting on Canadian Humanitarian Responses“ by Sherene H. Razack
- “The Rationality of Empowerment: Microcredit, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Gendered Economy” by Christine Keating, Claire Rasmussen, and Pooja Rish
- “Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism“ by Talal Asad
- “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina
- “Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns“ by Elizabeth Bernstein
- “Coca-Cola, Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia” Lesley Gill
[Really wish I knew more about this kind of work.]
Biopolitics, science, environmental justice
- “Peversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity“ -Nayan Shah
- “Your DNA Is Our History:’ Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” by Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear
- “Displaying Sara Baartman“ by Sadiah Qureshi
- “The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now” by Scott Morgensen
- “Black Bodies, White Science“ -Brian Wallis
- The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics by Vandana Shiva
- “The Seed and the Earth” by Vandana Shiva
- “Earth Democracy: An Interview with Vandana Shiva”
- “Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial“ by Suman Seth
and…. U.S. politics
- “Workfare–Warfare: Neoliberalism, ‘Active’ Welfare and the New American Way of War” by Julie MacLeavy and Columba Peoples
- “Women and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Colonial Mythology“ by Suzanne Bost
- “The People of California are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” by Lisa Marie Cacho
- “American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State“ by Andrea Smith