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Yesterday, I tabled with Queerocracy at the End Street-Harassment Rally in Manhattan. It was pretty refreshing to hear folks include a dialogue about racist and anti-queer/homophobic harassment too. I thought of the time K and I were offered a sperm donor by a crusty ass dude near NYU, and I had to draw it.

It’s not the first time a stranger, man or woman, has offered their commentary on K and I’s relationship, or the fact that we kiss in public, or that even when I’m alone I get homophobic comments (and racist ones, too, that usually don’t get my heritage right). I mean, it’s bad enough that I’ve been hollered at, groped, and followed home by dudes since I was in elementary school. But ciswomen are not the only ones punished for daring to exist in public space, nor are they incapable of policing public space as well. I say this not not to negate the experiences of ciswomen, but to prompt us to analyze which bodies are deemed fair game under the apparatus that is white-supremacist patriarchy. How we continue to deal with it, I’m not sure; I personally love to yell at the assholes. You decide what’s best.

farahjoon:

suzy-x replied to your post:

Yeah fuck grandpas. We don’t need ‘em.

I seriously cannot fucking get over it… he’s, like, The Hetero-Patriarchy incarnate and it makes me so fucking angry. I cannot handle it.

luv 2 h8: a poem

h8 yr dadz

h8 yr granddadz

h8 all tha privileged cismenz

h8 all tha dix

h8 it all, grrrls, h8 it all

h8 patriarchy, luv all u feminist bbz

Tonight I passed by a group of teenage boys when one of them looked at me and said, “I’d rape that.” He’s lucky that it’s dark, that I was alone, and that I didn’t take it as a threat so much as an exercise in dick-waving for his bros.

What rape culture?

mikkipedia:

karaj:

“the feminist parasite engages performance as a way of derailing and rerouting patriarchal investments in reciprocity, generational gratitude, and the gift economy that have structured discourses of morality, as realized by way of compulsory constructions of femininity as congenial, gracious, and obliging, not to mention the project of feminism as one that would seek gender equality, rather than to posit an opposition that would seek to hyperbolize, and thus outperform, patriarchy…

…parasitical performance iterates female stereotypes at a level of mania, while simultaneously claiming—or rather insisting (‘to be perfectly honest’)—that their performances bear some relationship to real life beyond the stage, effecting in this juxtaposition, a sense of disquietude or instability in the system. despite the often very apparent artificiality or hyperbole of their contrived spectacles, the artists’ refuse to break character, to let their ‘real meaning’ be finally pinned down…”

—anna watkins fisher, “we are parasites: on the politics of imposition,” art and education. see: feminist narcissism, feminist boredom, radical vulnerability, feminist hysteria, strategic ambiguity, ldr, etc. 

bolding, kara; ital, me.

I’m always down to troll the patriarchy. TROLL-LOL-LOL-LOL-LOL

kveltkunt:

lydia lunch on a feminist insurrection.

ineffableshe:

[img = banner on fence guarding the ten million dollar proposed youth jail site in baltimore, maryland. banner reads “fuck patriarchy, fuck prisons”]

w.a.t.c.h. (womyn & trans conspiracy from hell) hates prisons & you should too.

To quote the girls at Willie Mae Rock Camp ‘09: “WE LIKE TO FART!”

latinosexuality:

tossing ish, trashing it, turning cars over. if these were kids of color, college students of color at HBCU they would have been arrested by now. all the cops did was pepper spray them.

this in response to coach paterno and penn state president being fired.

rape apoligists? i think so. 

we are mandated reporters as folks working at schools and w/youth. if we hear or know of something that harms another person/child we MUST report it to law enforcement and child protective services NOT just our bosses. this is a great example of “the good ole’ boy network” protecting one another, imho.

Absolutely brilliant commentary— I bolded my favorite points. This is how oppressive institutions survive. Break it up, bros.

ddeennaaa:

Corey and the awesome sign we made (right), posing with his favorite protester. I think these were the two best signs of the whole day.

okbasha:

best day ever. including seeing this bag on a normal at ikea: eff the patriarchy

inquotation:

litter themselves throughout every facet of society. I know someone dating a guy two or three years her senior. Having had a strained relationship with her father while growing up, her older brother sees her boyfriend as her substitute father figure and sites this as the reason for their relationship. This idea is patriarchal and misogynistic, as is the idea that homosexuality in males is a product of a weak paternal relationship and too strong a maternal bond. Does Ashton Kutcher suffer from a weak maternal relationship? Do lesbians?  If my relationship with my mother were strained, would I not only be heterosexual but pursue women tens of years my senior? In the context that society taboos homosexuality and views it as wrong, it blames women for the cause of homosexuality in men, blames women for deteriorating the masculine facade of men, blames women for breaking men’s obedience to gender roles and perpetuates the idea that a paternal relationship is more important and influential than a maternal one and that men, by nature, have more control. But when male-dominated society spins lesbianism to an angle that objectifies female homosexual relationships, and when male-dominated society labels older women they consider attractive as “cougars”—the name of a wild animal that walks on all fours—little to no analysis condemns these actions. Time to remove the microscope from over tabooed minorities and examine White male society for a change.

Thanks, J. You are so rad.

meeting notes/slogans, 8/19/11