February 2012
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A few thesis updates →
Here we go.
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Just went through and tagged all thesis-related posts. Tumblr is showing them to me as though they were just posted for the first time. Hopefully all my followers didn’t just get spammed. If you did, sorry! Definitely won’t happen again.
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Watchthegang:
Yosimar Reyes “For Colored Boys that Speak Softly”
*two snaps and a silent praise dance*
(via @violetamichel)
A very powerful statement in words, and performance, and video.
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"Thesis mode" →
I’m working on a thesis project for my communication design master’s degree; it’s on building a community/storytelling website to help everyone rethink their perceptions of queer people.
It’s still in the development stages, but I’m already really happy with where it’s heading. The blog post I’ve linked to explains a little more about the project and how...
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Tells... →
This Towleroad post quotes the AP as saying, “That vote was hailed as historic by the United States, European countries and others […],” which is quite rich coming from a US that still kills its convicts (not to mention innocents in plenty of countries) for all sorts of reasons, and which still discriminates against its LGBT and queer citizens in basically whatever situation it likes.
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بلا اتجاه أو هوية: Hegemony →
hummussexual:
Queerty recently published an article with this title: Trans Candidate Seeking Pakistani Office: We’re Citizens Too. That title is based on an article published in a Pakistani newspaper titles: President of transgender association to contest elections. Both of these headlines are incorrect….
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New Yorker Magazine Refuses to Print the Word... →
News article from The Bilerico Project, an LGBTQ blog which is not one I’d heard of before (h/t @queerscholar). I think a word like “refuse” is a bit strong when the New Yorker hasn’t expressly addressed the matter itself, but it’s interesting that this happened either way.
I thought this was an eloquent wording of the distinction, in a letter from Cassie Peterson,...
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Mark Bittman, "OMG: McDonald’s Does the Right... →
“McDonald’s Will Phase Out Gestation Crates” in their pork supply.
The effect on the industry will be huge, because in the world of big-time meat supply, there are two kinds of producers: those who sell to McDonald’s and those wish they could. When, in 1999, McDonald’s requested that its suppliers give caged hens 72 square inches of space instead of 48 (72 is still smaller than...
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Michael Warner, "Queer and Then?" →
I don’t have a particular quote to share. Anyway the whole article is a must-read. It’s like a month old: I kept getting sidetracked from finishing reading it. Don’t be like me. Read it soon!
