August 26, 2012 • 2,928 notes
Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us in body hatred. Homophobia is all about defining queer bodies as wrong, perverse, immoral. Transphobia, about defining trans bodies as unnatural, monstrous, or the product of delusion. Ableism, about defining disabled bodies as broken and tragic. Class warfare, about defining the bodies of workers as expendable. Racism, about defining the bodies of people of color as primitive, exotic, or worthless. Sexism, about defining female bodies as pliable objects. These messages sink beneath our skin.
Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via genderqueer)

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August 25, 2012 • 11 notes •
i <3 alex

i <3 alex

August 25, 2012 • 440 notes • lostoasis

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August 25, 2012 • 6,220 notes • free-your-mind
fly-above-the-clouds: ✈

fly-above-the-clouds:

✈

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August 25, 2012 • 1,396 notes • caturday
feministpizza: I’ll take 20

feministpizza:

I’ll take 20

August 25, 2012 • 141 notes • lowendtheory
The internet left seems to be seduced by models that reduce doing the right thing politically to checking off boxes on a list. Do this. Don’t do that. Have you done this? Until you can be seen to have done this, you can’t… Check. Check. Most of our day-to-day experience with actual checklists, though, has less to do with doing the right thing—whatever that might mean—than with needing to obtain the right credential, with, for instance, getting authorized by the state to drive a vehicle, with being examined by medical practitioners, with being looked at and (if we’re in a relative position of power) looking at others with an evaluative eye. Checklisting, in other words, is less about politics than it is, ultimately, about policing—about who gets to inspect and regulate and authorize, all in the name of maintaining the smooth functioning of a social order. It’s a strange move to so enthusiastically adopt this form in the name of disrupting and/or transforming such an order.

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