GLITTER POLITIC: Archive

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My Dearest Queer Communities,

I’m feeling really sad, angry, and frustrated with this politics of exile that i see everywhere around me. maybe we need to stop for a second and think really hard about how self-righteous and exclusive we are. maybe we need to think a little harder about how our experiences of class, gender, ability, racialization, sexuality, size are extremely nuanced and complex. maybe we need to start thinking a little harder about how we reinforce shame, and hegemonic binary narratives within our communities. maybe we need to stop for a second and instead of making dehumanizing, universalizing judgments about each other, maybe be quiet and listen. maybe we need to be thankful that we can learn from each other. maybe we need to be kind and gentle and loving and take care of each others’ hearts a little better.

i mean…who needs the state to fuck us over when we have each other, right?

Yours truly,

Ashley Aron

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Jan 31, 201120 notes

Jan 28, 2011533 notes

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I have definitely gotten to the point where I always feel really good about my body. I still get really angry about fat every day but its about everyone else and the way they limit me. I’m not mad at myself for not fitting into clothes I like, I’m mad at the people who make the clothes in sizes that they know very well won’t fit me. I’m not mad at my belly for not fitting into certain booths, I’m mad at the fuckers who make the booths. I fucking hate to be told no unless we’re playing some kinky game or something.

I don’t apologize for taking up the space I take up but I get angry that the world tells me how much space they think I’m allowed.

” —

Jessica (tangledupinlace)

always auto-reblog, no matter how many times you have had it on your blog.

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I like that I said this. I’m still angry and not angry about all of these things

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I don’t know what else to say except: I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU.

Jan 27, 2011288 notes

Play

Jan 27, 201134 notes

Jan 25, 201130 notes

#HOT GAYLORDS #VICTORIA #B.C. #UNNNNHHHFF

grandgaucheries:

Love and care and affection are not scarce resources. We need to get away from a model of love that views it economically. There is no shortage, we just haven’t been taught how to live it and give it.

We all seek so desperately to find it that we often latch on tight with both hands, hoping that…

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. X 100000. Now go follow her and live by her words.

Jan 24, 201113 notes

Jan 24, 20111,103 notes

innerfatgirl:

haterina:

tadface:

cuntofdoom:

But it is. And people move in and out of it and take pieces of their experience from that place to another. I know I’ve definitely learned a lot from the anti-oppression/social justice tumblrs that I follow, stuff that I probably…

Jan 24, 2011138 notes

Jan 24, 2011153 notes

[And when the body finally starts to let go, let it all go at once. not piece by piece, but like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe...] today.

brownroundboi:

fall down on the world
fall down on the world
fall down on the world
before it falls on you.”

— sleater kinney, get up

Jan 23, 201114 notes

ourchangingsky:

jhameia:

meloukhia:

An outgrowth of a conversation about aromantic orientations, and the desire to be able to define relationships that are not romantic, that are also not friendships, and that play an important role in your life. I think it’s time to turn this one loose into the wild….

I don’t like that word “queerplatonic” for aesthetic reasons… it just doesn’t roll off the tongue or look nice haha but I have got a lot of relationships like this in my life.

Jan 23, 20111,384 notes

Jan 23, 201198 notes

I get asked if i’m pregnant all the time. People ask me on the street, in bars, AT WORK. It’s completely absurd. This week, I got asked if I was pregnant twice within 24 hours. No matter how many times it happens, I am still so STUNNED by people’s audacity that my brain shuts down and all the…

Jan 21, 201172 notes

“You don’t need fashion designers when you are young. Have faith in your own bad taste. Buy the cheapest thing in your local thrift shop - the clothes that are freshly out of style with even the hippest people a few years older than you. Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership. Ill-fitting is always stylish. But be more creative - wear your clothes inside out, backward, upside down. Throw bleach in a load of colored laundry. Follow the exact opposite of the dry cleaning instructions inside the clothes that cost the most in your thrift shop. Don’t wear jewelry - stick Band-Aids on your wrists or make a necklace out of them. Wear Scotch tape on the side of your face like a bad face-lift attempt. Mismatch your shoes. Best yet, do as Mink Stole used to do: go to the thrift store the day after Halloween, when the children’s trick-or-treat costumes are on sale, buy one, and wear it as your uniform of defiance.” —Role Models by John Waters (via bohemea)

Jan 21, 2011888 notes

dressupbox:

summary of question from xicanagrrl: how do you feel about het cis women identifying as femme, and about queersexual femmes asserting that it is appropriative for het cis women to identify as femme?

these are SOME of my ideas about femme identity, as someone who identifies as a radical…

Jan 21, 2011358 notes

I just read the "What is Glitter politic" post and my brain exploded. Seriously. Brains. Uurrrvywhere. ...But in all seriousness, it's the best idea of all time, and you're both babes. Thank you.

We love being thanked for being smart babes. Sometimes, we don’t give each other and ourselves enough thanks. So thank YOU for saying thank you. We are tickled that folks like this blog. It is very exciting and motivating and really gets the old juices flowing!

Jan 19, 2011

So much love for you two, I could dieeeeeeeeeeeee. UNF.

Thanks! We love love! Love gettin’, love givin’. Also, what does UNF mean? Majestic is much cooler and hipper than ole AA here, so she might know. I’m excited to learn though!

Jan 19, 2011

“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I’ll meet in my life to appreciate the general public. (Dean Spade)” —Spade, D. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html

Jan 19, 20114,423 notes

“Pretending that I’m more “down” than you, that I’m more radical and liberated, reinforces the same stuff I’m trying to unlearn. It makes us feel like we are not enough. I’m tired of us all feeling like we’re not ok. What would it look like to believe that we could do it another way, that we could do it a million other ways? What would our sexual interactions look like if we believed that we were ok, if we were allowed to be our whole selves, if we saw ourselves as whole? What would it look like to be able to sit with our fears and to engage in a process of accountability with each other? What if we were able to show up in a centered, solid, whole, and graceful way? What would accountability look like?… Accountability is a process and part of that process is screwing up. That’s so scary and so real because when the stakes are this high, screwing up doesn’t really feel like an option. but what if instead we see accountability as a process we get to engage in when we fuck up, that fucking up is going to happen and instead of denail and hiding, instead of saying that we didn’t know any better (whether that’s true or not) we apologize, figure out what was going on for us, what places inside of us our actions are centered in and then figure out what we’re going to do about it. Because screwing up is a part of the deal but that doesn’t mean we get to fuck up in the same way over and over again. We engage so we don’t keep fucking up in the exact same ways. I want to fuck up in totally new ways.” —

Queers, kissing and accountability by Shannon Perez-Darby, from Learning Good Consent

Consent Is Sexy: Dyke March reminds the Twin Cities how much fun a culture of consent can be!

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hey, that’s my best friend!

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Jan 19, 2011155 notes

“we all need to rid ourselves of misguided notions about self-love. We need to stop fearfully equating it with self-centeredness and selfishness.” —bell hooks, all about love. (via tenderheart)

Jan 19, 2011120 notes

GLITTER POLITIC

January 2011

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