Fuck a white supremacist. Thank god for these beautiful Black heroes. š
Wes Bellamy is the Vice mayor of Charlottleville, the only black person on their city council AND heās the youngest person ever to fill his role in their city. I really like the short bit I saw of him on the news, heās a brave and well-spoken dude.
Day: August 13, 2017
Words, binary and biphobia, or: why ābiā is binary but āFTMā is not
I have identified as bisexual for the reason that Iām attracted to men and women. As this article makes a point, this would mean I would
nātbe attracted to genderqueer and possibly trans*.Respectfully and quite urgently I need to point out to you that the title is meant to be sarcastic. The author of piece, Shiri Eisner is a well known bisexual activist and academic who is genderqueer herself. She in no way meant anywhere to imply in any possible way that bisexual people can only be/be attracted to cis heteronormative/homonormative people. In fact the exact opposite is true.
The entire thrust of the piece is to point out (with careful documentation) that some of the roots of transphobia and biphobia are the same and go back to some of the origins of the gay studies movement.
The title was pointing out the excessiveness silliness of (some) mindless pc rhetoric which excoriates bisexual people as being some sort of enemies of the queer nation for the crime of simply existing, while simultaneously falling all over themselves to show love and devotion to all things trans* and frequently gay & lesbian separatist too. Obviously if any thought were actually given rather that just mouthing current trendy pieties, it would quickly become apparent that these are two simultaneous states that cannot both exist at the same time.
May I refer you to two other essays on the current non-monosexual names conundrum: Why I identify as bisexual and not pansexual and Some differences and similarities between bisexuality and pansexuality. Also you may wish to read another of her well-known essays: The monosexual privilege checklist.
You should be aware that historically the Bisexual Community has always seen the Bi = 2 as talking about people who ā„ people of Same gender as themselves + ā„ people of Different genders/gender presentations from themselves. This 50%/50% Male/Female only stuff is a fairly recent invention (started gaining popularity around 2005) imposed by people who were not (and frequently did not like) bisexual people.
You may also wish to look at the following:
* Bisexual Manifesto from 1990
* Definition of Bisexuality from Robyn Ochs
* Bi Definition
* Bisexual FAQ from Bisexual Index
Words, binary and biphobia, or: why ābiā is binary but āFTMā is not
Emma Hart has written two repsonses to Emily Dievendorfās HuffPo piece on bisexual invisibility.
The first is at The Lady Garden.
The second is at her blog Up Front.
Archived version of the first response piece: http://web.archive.org/web/20130328032728/http://theladygarden.org/2012/03/27/ime/
Fuck a white supremacist. Thank god for these beautiful Black heroes. š
Wes Bellamy is the Vice mayor of Charlottleville, the only black person on their city council AND heās the youngest person ever to fill his role in their city. I really like the short bit I saw of him on the news, heās a brave and well-spoken dude.
I know I was taking a little break to avoid all the stress of the Charlottesville rally being talked about on tumblr, but I also wanted to make sure all of my Jewish mutuals know how loved they are. I know this is scary and sometimes it feels like the only people looking out for us is ourselves, but know that you are not alone and have never been alone. We are one mishpacha, one family, and we will look after each other and keep each other safe like we always have. I love each and every one of you. Remember, the whole world is a very narrow bridge and the main thing is to have no fear at all.
Goyim, please reblog this instead of all the performativeĀ āpunch a naziā nonsense. Make your Jewish followers feel safe.
goyim reporting for duty, here yāall go
i doubt a reblog will make anyone feel safe, but this might help: if you look at charlottesville at all, read enough of the articles to learn that pretty much the whole town was not pleased with the nazis and wanted them gone. there werenāt as many of them as they claimed to be, and to get even those numbers they were p much all from out of state. so basically thatās all of them right there, all the polo shirt dickbag haters they could scrape together, and pissed off locals ran them out of town.
iām not denying that hate criminals have been acting out especially badly lately, and that people are getting hurt and killed. but i want to remind you that a LOT of people have your backs.
ā¦OMG. Iāve been noticing that browsing my Tumblr dash in Firefox uses up around 1/3 of my CPU cycles, even with ad scripts blocked, but couldnāt figure out why.
After reading some developer tools documentation online, I managed to pinpoint that it was something involving CSS animations, but couldnāt find any obvious element that was animating on the page. So then I did a bit more debugging to see what animations were being reported by the document inspector.
Itās the mouseover animation on the Tumblr logo. Which, apparently, is coded in such a way that it keeps animating in the background even when the mouse is nowhere near it (!?!?!?!).
this site is so damn badly designed, what the heck.
So turns out the adblock filter you need to get rid of it is ##.logo-anchor to remove a container the logo is in. The basic right-click to remove doesnāt work because the logo has a lot of states that count as different elements and youād need to block all of them.
In light of what happened recently in Charlottesville, here are ways you can help courtesy of Sara Benincasa on Twitter. Donate to local non-profits, signal boost, and show your support for the Black Student Alliance at University of Virginia. If you have spare money, support the Black Student Alliance or the counter protestor legal fund.
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THREAD: I think it would be cool if tons of folks donated to good
Charlottesville-based nonprofits those Nazi jerks would really hate.
Soā¦Hereās the @NAACP in Charlottesville. They take PayPal. http://www.albemarle-cvillenaacp.org
Hereās Charlottesville Pride (the good kind.) They take PayPal. @cvilleprideĀ http://cvillepride.org/sponsor/support/
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic serves Charlottesville. Donate to them here:
https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Donation2?df_id=24415&24415.donation=form1&s_designeeid=1116
Charlottesvilleās own chapter of the National Organization for Women @CVille_NOW takes PayPal, my babies! http://www.cvillenow.org/involve.html
If you just wanna learn more, hereās a post by @lifeofDVS about #BlackLivesMatter in Charlottesville
https://medium.com/@lifeofDVS/august-12th-facing-the-alt-right-and-everything-after-a077cf41bbaf
African American Teaching Fellows works to diversify a system with only 10% African American teachers. @aatfnews http://www.aateachingfellows.orgĀ
Safe to say itās not the greatest night to be a Jewish student at UVA. Perhaps you might donate to Hillel at UVA?
https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/jML0Uah5iSxU5YZKzwBFkg
While youāre at it, why not learn something about the history of the Jewish community in Charlottesville? http://www.isjl.org/virginia-charlottesville-encyclopedia.html
Congregation Beth Israel is the only synagogue in Charlottesville & the whole county. Tell āem youād like to donate! https://cbicville.org/contact
IMPACT Cville is composed of Muslim, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities in Charlottesville. Donate! https://impactcville.com/
The folks at @twicville provide mental healthcare for women in Charlottesville regardless of ability to pay. Donate: http://thewomensinitiative.org
Just learned about @LegalAidJustice which is doing good work – check them out and donate
Are we forgetting our friends with disabilities in Charlottesville? NOPE. Donate to Arc of the Piedmont here:http://arcpva.org/donate/
Hereās a group w/a Charlottesville branch working for independent living for folks with disabilities (h/t @may_gun)Ā
http://www.vacil.org/va_cils_directory.htm
And we canāt skip Big Brothers Big Sisters in Charlottesville! Thx @wildbrad for the h/t! Donate to @bbbsocbr: http://www.blueridgebigs.orgĀ
The good folks @PiedmontHousing help diverse clients access affordable housing in Charlottesville and beyond
http://piedmonthousingalliance.org/donations/
Iāve put this together in a blog post you can share for folks who arenāt on Twitter:
https://medium.com/@SaraJBenincasa/what-to-do-about-charlottesville-dfc7d6636d56
Sea lions are just seals with an extra electron.
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I really canāt stand the message that people send to others – especially to disabled people – that āthe real world is cruel and nobodyās going to help youā in an attempt to foster complete self-sufficiency.
Because itās not true. I honestly canāt do everything by myself, and neither can you or anyone else. Everyone needs help. Nobody can always be their own chef, doctor, mechanic, teacher, trainer, and counsellor all rolled into one infallible package of superhuman toughness.
Itās patently misleading to raise people to think that they have to learn to always fly solo. Weāre a social species and we support and learn from each other. We shouldnāt be taught that itās shameful or weak to ask for help.
Nobody can do everything alone and nobody should have to. Especially us disabled people.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 