June 2012
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"femme" versus "feminine"
im sick fucking of the queer community at large propagating the bullshit dichotomy between feminine and “femme.” i.e. that feminine = something that others put on you / apolitical / some male gazey shit whereas “femme” = reclaimed femininity on one’s own terms as an act of rah rah empowerment. its really fucking gross & anti-woman to make the blanket assumption...
cat was found. thank the lord. back to sleep.
happy fucking saturday, my landlord came to fix the ac and left the door to both our apt and our apt complex open. i woke up to find that our cat is missing. she doesnt have a collar bc she never goes outside. tumblr please pray for me.
“Beyoncé isn’t Beyoncé because she reads comments on the Internet. Beyoncé is in...”
– Kathleen Hanna, interviewed by Melissa Febos in BOMBLOG (via dandyprof)
May 2012
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so, femmecon is coming to baltimore. they will be meeting / partying only a few blocks away. that’s cool i guess, maybe i’ll go get a drink with everybody. but i have to admit, i don’t really get it. by it, i mean why the hell folks would travel across the across the country & pay $60-$100 to attend a femme-specific conferen$$$e in order to “explore, discuss, dissect,...
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“feminism is my tagline and I cling to it with good reason—not because it nails...”
– my amazing girlfriend
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Watchi saw my buddy greg’s new band bard and mustache last night. if you’ve been following this blog since it’s inception, you might know greg from the sparta philharmonic (the band he was in with his brother & that i used to book semi-regularly at the hexagon). you might also remember greg as a contributor to hoax #2. anyway, this was one of the best shows i’ve seen in ages...
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well, that last post effectively got two radscum blogs to unfollow me. but now i’m back on cb’s shit list. cb obviously hasn’t read any of my past posts. i’ve written in great detail about the many layers of misogyny which i think are deeply embedded within contemporary queer politics. i mean hell, i even linked to my zine “not queer as in radical but lesbian as in...
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eww radscum blogs, why are you suddenly following me?
(being skeptical of how queer politics tend to perpetuate misogyny both online and is the realosphere, as well as the focus on perceptions of identities rather than lived experiences, is not the same as being trans-critical. being transgender is a lived experience, asshats. my posts/zine regarding the reclaimation of a lesbian identity was...
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damn, it feels good to be a gay witch
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writing is probably the only activity i repetitively engage in which consistently makes me feel as though i am loosing my head, becoming “crazy” if you will. self care would mean never attempting to put my thoughts on paper or in a zine but, unfortunately, i cannot make art or play music and im desperate for some sort of diy currency. i continue to make these posts only...
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summer is the best thing to ever happen in america & if you disagree you are Oppressive.
hey, does anybody wanna read a zine essay over & offer up some grammar edits and throughout critiques? i’m kinda a perfectionist, in case you haven’t already figured that out. send me a message.
musicfromthe90s:
Intergalactic by Beastie Boys
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also re: meeting a bunch of people from tumblr this weekend at the zine reading and beyond, i recognize that im prolly a lot more awkward / distractible / obviously bored by my own thoughts in the realosphere. my ability to interact with others is directly dependent upon how much caffeine ive ingested. also, i have quirky mannerisms. sorry im not sorry.
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im spending the weekend with my girlfriends family. they have four dogs and they are dogsitting two more. we are taking all six of them swimming. amazing!
so i did a more in depth tag search and my full name is a tag on cathy brennan’s blog. she copy / pasted a full conversation i had on a friend’s wall about street harassment in which i remarked that yes, racism influences who we do and do not see as a threat but that still, cultural relativity only goes so far. apparently this is whitesplaining? whatever, if y’all wanna look i...
svetlana-del-rey replied to your post: lol cathy brennan is after me. no, but really.i…
yeah idk if she’s for real or not (like have people actually met her to verify the internet persona?) but I’m p sure she harasses everyone who posts about her
she is for real, i know a handful people who’ve met her. she lives / works as a lawyer in baltimore & has been a key proponent against...
Anonymous asked: I definitely just confused Carly Brennan with Carly Rae Jepsen and was confused as all get out. I thought you would want to know.
lol cathy brennan is after me. no, but really.i posted the same “cathy brennan get the fuck out of baltimore” message on facebook, and she’s already sent me private messages telling me that she wants to come to my feminist reading group and “teach us about feminism” (oh, well that’s not meant to be threatening). uh, why is a middle age women using hacking tools...
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cathy brennan get the fuck out of maryland you are a total disgrace
also, what the hell is a middle age feminist lawyer doing outing people half her age on the internet??!?!?
tumblr: should i propose a zine making workshop for willie mae rock camp? i am hella interested, but my grad school orientation is likely the same week (they haven’t given me an exact date..) ?
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i used to have “re-reclaiming the word “queer”” listed as an interest on livejournal what seems like many years ago now, and i used to be genuinely invested in sticking to that term as something i really didn’t want to lose to the fucking theoryheads and radikewl assholes.
but now— fuck it, i’m done. you can have it, radikewl jerks -...
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leonineantiheroine replied to your post: top five fave things about baltimore!
i wanna go to baltimore!!! where are you moving to? NYC?
yeah, i’m moving to new york city to earn an msw in community organizing, planning, and development. i will be leaving my partner of six years // cat & living with the rents until shit inevitably hits the fan. i’m extremely upset about this move...
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jayxcub asked: top five fave things about baltimore!
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cosmo tip #249
expertcosmotips:
when hes having sex with you, shout out your own name instead of his.
seriously thou allergies, can you just stop? [i wish there were free immediate allergy relief strategies other than showers…or that when they remodeled this teen center, they had kept what is my my office as a handicap shower…]
it’s been six years since sleater kinney disbanded, i need to stop playing their records and crying.
lol turns out that femme con is taking place like two blocks away from my apt in baltimore. unfortunately,i will have moved back to nyc by then..but i will still have keys until the end of august, so…
maniac-dragstrip asked: i recall having a conversation about feminist transphobia with a tumblrite last summer and noting that it was primarily a white phenomenon - it didn't get any further than that though, with regards to possible explanations. but that post is amazing and reminded me of that conversation.
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THE AMBULARS: Official Ambulars Week →
theambulars:
Friday, May 25th: Kicking off Ambulars week (DC), there will be a DC Zinefest benefit and pop-up library featuring readings from our own Jenny Ambular, as well as Rachel from Hoax, Linsay from The Runcible Spoon, and many yet-to-be-announced readers
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Come catch me reading in DC at The Fridge this Friday! Facebook stuff is here!
Clatter and Clank: You know what I'm noticing... →
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I think their whiteness and their womanhood is intersecting to produce a particularly obnoxious response to patriarchy and marginalization. I’ve been thinking a lot about this.
So, Aida Hurtado and Audre Lorde both talk about this. And they are way more articulate than I am, so I’m not in any way reinventing the wheel. Both of them make the argument that white women and women...
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last night, i had a long conversation with my friend about the ways in which white activism tends to play out as an ingenious performance (who can scream at the loudest?) & it got me thinking:
it’s really sad on so many levels how i now avoid using terms such as “intersectional” to describe my politics because that language has been co-opted by white cis kids trying to...
the submissions for hoax #7 are totally badass & i figured every one of you should know.
georgiacapra asked: hey! I was wondering if you know of any online zine databases - like places where zines are indexed/uploaded/downloaded for free (on direction of author of course). I sort of thought wemakezines was this but on further exploration it's not? Also found a few broken zine library links. I dunno!
whenever i attempt to clean my apartment, im forced to confront the fact that i am kinda a hoarder