Can We Be Lovers & Not Have Sex? I want a life of a million lovers. I want to love you. I want to love you if you are male or female, young or old, single or married… When I see you we will embrace and hold a hug long enough to glimpse some insight from each other’s heartbeat. When we walk down the street we shall link arms, pause frequently, and turn our toes and noses towards the other to speak directly without modesty. I would like us to share the couch together, rather than creating a “do not cross” line where we may as well be sitting on brick blocks seated four feet away. Give me your knee, your foot, your thigh—let your body dangle on top of my body so I can know you the way litters of kittens know each other. I want to show up to you and look into your eyes instead of at your eyes.
I would like you to leave our time together feeling loved and free and full of your most vibrant and luscious hue of you-ness. Please do not get confused: I do not want to have sex with you—whether you are male or female. Relephant: Ex-Workers’ Collective : Podcast. Fuck marriage, fuck equality | Bi radical. This is a excerpt from my book Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution. If you like this text, please consider buying a copy. For about a decade, same sex marriage has been the flagship issue of the GGGG movement*. Marketed as the single-issue battle which would bring equality and solve GGGG-phobia for all, it has been the main focus of GGGG activist and political effort. The struggle for same sex marriage has been presented to us as a struggle for full equality and citizenship. We are told that the one step separating between us – “the gays” – and perfect rainbow utopia is the ability to register our same sex relationships with the state**.
But before we start with the walking away, we first need to examine what it is that we are asking. Fuck queer assimilation. At its very base, marriage is a patriarchal institution. Most violence perpetrated against women, as well as children, happens within heteronormative families. End marriage – Gay Shame Not every boy wants to be a soldier Like this: Happy Full Moon “Harvest Moon” in Pisces September 19th 2013! | MYSTICMAMMA.COM : consciousness, spirituality, wisdom, inspiration. On September 19th we will have a Harvest Full Moon in the mystical sign of Pisces! Here are the MYSTIC MAMMA Astral Insights on the collective energy that will be illuminated… First from the always wonderful Kelley Rosano: “The Pisces Full Moon on Sept 19 is a powerful portal for your spiritual growth.
This is the Harvest Moon. From the always insightful Cathy Pagano from her Wisdom of Astrology: “This Harvest Full Moon occurs on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4:13am PDT/ 7:13am EDT/ 11:13am GMT. From the wonderful Dipali Desai and her Celestial Space Astrology: “The Full Moon in Pisces at 26 degrees on September 19th, 2013 is the energetic opening right before Pluto in Capricorn at 8 degrees stations to go Direct motion on September 20th and the Equinox doorway on September 22nd, 2013. From Sarah Varcas from her Astro-Awakenings.uk: “…she invites us to consider an inner harvest and where we now find ourselves on our path of spiritual enquiry.
Lastly from astrologer Divine Harmony: ~mm. Top 10 list: How not to respond to Indigenous experiences of racism in Canada. Op-Ed: Where Have All the Butches Gone? Searching for Decolonial Love. 51st Day Without Food, CDCR Continues to Crack Down on Prisoners’ Peaceful Protest, Forcibly Relocate Strikers, Stonewall Mediation Team | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity. As prisoners mark day 51 of their hunger strike, lawyers and advocates continue to express outrage at the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) attacks on prisoners’ peaceful protest.
After being internationally lambasted in the media last week for threatening prisoners with force feeding as well as ignoring their medical wishes, the CDCR continued to punish strikers by moving as many as 50 prisoners from Pelican Bay to other prisons. The CDCR issued a confusing press release on Monday evening, claiming it had met the demands of the strikers, while also maintaining it did not recognize the legitimacy of their protest, nor would it negotiate with them.
Attempts by the strikers’ mediation team to keep open dialogue with the strikers and prison officials have been rebuffed by CDCR. Anne Weills, attorney for the strikers responded to this news: “Just think of the state of these men, psychologically, physically and medically. Like this: Like Loading... On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture and Accessorizing With Black People. Femme is inspiration, femme is Dainty | HEARTBEATS. Dainty Smith seems to love the stage and we love seeing Dainty up there. She is a talented performer, actress and writer working hard in the city of Toronto. I had never seen a woman of colour perform burlesque before Dainty. That sort of visibility makes way for possibility and healing. This, once isolated, woman of colour can attest to that. While the images of Dainty are stunning and stylish, I loved hearing about the thought process behind her work and life most of all.
To people of colour, self love can often feel unattainable and sometimes these words on screen might be all we have. So I do. Read on. How does being a woman of colour inform your style? As a woman of colour, glamour has alway been deeply significant to me. It is an act of self love and self worship. And in a world that sets European ideals of beauty as the standard, it is more than necessary. You sell vintage clothes online–what do you love about vintage and how did you get into it? What does femme mean to you? Artist Feature: Richard Olmsted. [Mount Vernon, Washington] If you live in the Northwest and have an interest in art, you probably about Mount Vernon-based artistic mastermind/wizard Richard Olmsted. Specializing in pencil drawings, relief printmaking, and etching, Richard’s work has a classical element to it; while the subject matter is more conceptual, the execution harkens back to an old school of artistry — something like H.R. Giger meets Albrecht Dürer.
I tried to find out what’s underneath that signature beanie of his in this interview: Artist Statement: I find myself a great deal more concerned with the aesthetics of the physical world, than that confined by a frame or held hostage in a museum. We need look no further than these polluted pastures and seas of grey to be reminded why I’m not interested in discussion or depiction so much as fighting for those whose voices we choose to ignore. Website(s)/Contact information: richardolmsted.com / richardolmsted@hotmail.com My Grandfather, Sydney k. Reciprocity. GOLDRUST. But I cant stop thinking about this amazing piece of clothing which has an unfortunate name. It comes in XL! I’m getting so used to my prosthetic that my brain is having a hard time comprehending not walking all the time. 30+ years minus one. Not good math. 5 Tips For Calling Out Transphobia. Let me give you an idea of what it’s like to be a transgender woman.
A few months ago, I decided to try watching Conan O’Brien’s show again. Maybe his 2012 apology for telling an anti-trans joke had been sincere after all. It would be safe for me now, right? But in the opening monologue, he told this joke: “DC Comics introduced its first-ever transgender character. Two months ago, a friend took me to see Janeane Garofalo at the end of a long day. Last week, I turned on the television. As my friend Jill says: “We are the joke you reach for when you can’t think of anything better.” That’s where you come in. 1.
It’s always easier to be proactive than reactive. Part of being an ally, too, is developing your own personal Spidey Sense for transphobia. For more on how to be a good ally, check out my previous piece on Thought Catalog. 2. One of the holiest social contracts we operate under is that you always tell someone when they have a piece of lettuce stuck in their teeth. 3. 4. 5. 27 Problems Only Introverts Will Understand. Surge in Mexico issued a new EPR guerrilla group. Hugo Hernández/El Sol de México Ciudad de México.- Un nuevo grupo guerrillero dio a conocer su nacimiento a través de un comunicado al cumplirse 18 años de la masacre de Aguas Blancas, Guerrero. Se trata de autollamado Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP), el cual está formado por ex militantes del Ejército Popular Revolucionario (EPR). Fuentes de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) dijeron desconocer el anuncio del nacimiento de esta organización e indicaron que lo que se sabe es a través de han informado los medios.
Sin precisar su zona de influencia, ni el tamaño de su organización, el ERP señala que son resultado de una división al interior del Ejército Popular Revolucionario. Acusaron al EPR de "realizar ejecuciones personales, pasando por alto los principios revolucionarios". Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative — chrisbrecheen.blogspot.com.au. How being a writer helped me rewrite a sexist trope...for real. [Edit 3 (7/25/13): I speak to some of the more common comments, questions, and criticisms I've recieved in this Mailbox article.
Edit 2 (7/18/13): Continue comments at the dedicated entry for the continuation of comments if you want a reply from me.Edit 1 (7/16/13): This post has gone viral and it now accounts for over half the traffic that this blog has ever received since I started it in February of 2012. Unfortunately, that means it's starting to show signs of conforming to the laws governing the "bottom half of the internet. " Some really brave and touching stories have come in under Anonymous comments so I really don't want to change the comment policy mid stream; however, rest assured that I'm actually quite okay cheerfully deleting anything that drifts into the territory of abusive or incendiary in its hostility (especially to other readers) . Could "non-writers" have read all these articles and more?
Of course! Yep. PERSPECTIVE - Introvert in Wonderland. Susan Cain, author of ‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking’. I can’t, for the life of me, make small talk. And it hinders my social life, earns me labels of ‘socially-awkward’, ‘culturally-backward’ and inundates me in advice about dating, pop-culture and conversation-starters.
I take it all in before retiring to my place of Zen with a book. I ponder the futility of comparing analyses of the previous night’s Big Bang Theory and rue the utility of random, mindless chatter. The truth is that society has passed its judgment on the likes of me and we are the misfits. Likeability, agreeability and popularity may not be bestowed upon those who don’t spew psychobabble like a teenage-girl on crack or make public and complete jackasses of themselves at parties. From childhood, our children are encouraged to speak up. Adnan R Amin is a Dhaka-based strategy and communications consultant. Modern’s Art | Feature | High Plains Reader. Last Monday, local artist and Fargo cultural magistrate, Modern Man, held the opening of his first show in more than a decade. The last one was in at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis in the mid-90’s, but this time the HoDo and its staff were kind enough to suspend dinner service and focus on the art of the mind rather than art for the stomach for a couple of hours.
The show will last through the end of May and there is a special closing Wednesday the 28th from 5-7. Modern prefers to celebrate closings and ignore openings. The show, titled “Modern Man’s Beer Man,” is made of four series of prints: one series is a set of enormous prints from the artist’s past and there are three more recent series. The new series are smaller in size but just as significant as the large prints from the past. Walking into the dining room, the observer is met with an unmistakable sense of Warhol.
The nexus for this show began in the early 1990’s when Modern Man found an AP image of a man panhandling. If You Go. Implicit Association Test. Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.” He said he does not plan to take any further legal action. Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125.
But the U.S. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control. Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.”
On the night of January 24, 2006, Baucum called Culosi and arranged a time to drop by to collect his winnings. Sal Culosi’s last words were to Baucum, the cop he thought was a friend: “Dude, what are you doing?” Indeed, that’s exactly what happened to seventy-two-year-old Aaron Awtry in 2010. İstanbul, Turkey: Raw updates from the occupation at Taksim Gezi Park. Crowd of protesters at Istiklal street, Istanbul Please contribute info from the streets. The occupation of Taksim Gezi Park in İstanbul began on May 28th, 2013. Following the police raid in the park area on May 30th , hackers from the RedHack sabotaged the website of the Beyoglu police headquarters in response to the morning attack. The occupation continued, and thousands of people gathered to resist the government’s plans (to build a shopping centre and destroy the green area).
It soon became one of the largest mobilizations for years, with various different participants (from radical activists to NGOs, etc.), resembling the worldwide Occupy movement. On May 31st, street clashes started from 5am in İstanbul. The resistance grew wider, while the police fired an incredible amount of tear gas bombs. Meanwhile, one man died of heart attack, but it was circulated that his death was not directly related to the police gas bombing. Meanwhile, dozens have been detained by cops in Istanbul.
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