I really DID spend 75% of that party last night, ruminating about astrology with a bunch of queers
First Queer Anti-Authoritarian Open Assembly
weds. 7pm brooklyn free school at 372 clinton
This is the first open assembly calling all anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist queers. While anti-authoritarian and anarchist spaces can feel entirely white, straight, and cis, they aren’t: many queer people exist in these circles. We are sick of being silenced and tokenized.
So let’s make a space of our own, get to know each other, and build affinity. The agenda will be fairly open, but this meeting does not exist to weigh the merits of a diversity of tactics.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is for self-identified trans, queer, lesbian, gay, bi, intersex, and any other non-conforming gender/sexual orientation. Straight allies are not welcome.
Possible topics of discussion:
- Challenging heteropatriarchy within the Ⓐ milieu
- Fighting gay assimilationism
- Racism in queer spaces / POC caucus
- What is “queer” and in what ways can it be inclusive/exclusive?
- Pride Festival NYC
THIS IS A SAFE SPACE: Absolutely no sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, or cissexism will be tolerated. Many of us have experienced violent and oppressive behavior of this nature. If you have been held accountable through a process or other wishes of the survivor, please attend. lf you have not, you will be physically removed. We respect survivor autonomy above all- this is not up for dispute. If you are being oppressive or making someone feel unsafe, you will be asked to leave or we will remove you.
Please email us if you have questions about attending, or about any of these terms, or the safer space policy, we want to talk to you! hexxbrooklyn{at}gmail{dot}com
I held off on participating in that party scene in GIRLS
I couldn’t take off from my regular job this week to film for two whole days. So they’re gonna have me featured in another episode, which will be filmed some time in the next month or two.
However, when that time comes, whatever scene I’m in, you better believe that I will troll the fuck out of those breeders and look like the fabulous muff diving witch I am. You can’t stop us Brooklyn queers. We’ll troll your fancy dinner parties, your girls-night-outs and the sets of your television shows.
The only reason “coming out” is still even a thing is because it’s presumed that people are straight until they tell us otherwise. “The Other must identify itself, or else it is decieving us” is a fucked up, dangerous idea.
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Our bodies must be constantly available for scrutiny by the state (for anyone who wants to see them, inquire about them, our fucking and genitals are the subject of endless discussion and condemnation) while remaining hidden and shameful, continually referenced in their (our) absence. In addition to being continuously available, our bodies are reservoirs of violence, we are to passively receive of any violence straight or cis people choose to dole out. And the passivity is important; as much as violence is directed at us, when we fight back we get ten times more. Indeed, even our supposed allies need us, demand of us, that we remain utterly passive in the face of potentially fatal violence. Liberal straight people need us to be victims (rather than agents) in order to uphold savior narratives that they have constructed. Cece McDonald, for example, is constantly positioned as a victim, a screen onto which the violence of her attackers is projected. The fact that she fought back is obscured, almost as if we are to be ashamed of that fact. As if her willingness to defend herself is not all the more reason to have her back; as if the nazi fuck she killed didn’t deserve to die. Her crime, as has been observed by numerous commentators, was not murder; it was surviving…more than that; it was fighting, refusing to be controlled. Which, really is at the center or things. Straight/white/cis/rich people deserve to live, and the rest of us should be grateful for their mercy or the opportunity to continue to live in the squalor they have created for us. Our lives are simply not worth as much.
What is a "demi-sexual" and where do these words keep coming from?!
I DUNNO THEY JUST COME FROM PEOPLE’S BUTTS
(As for the definition of “demisexual,” it means “a person who does not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional connection with someone.”)
**vagabondaesthetics replied to your post: What is a “demi-sexual” and where do these words keep coming from?!
So serial monogamists?
Uh sounds like it! It’s just frustrating to me. I understand feeling alienated from hetero hook-up culture. I’ve been there, done that (and then I realized I was just queer all along). But not enjoying hook-up culture is in no way comparable to not being able to be openly queer without inciting some kind of hate or violence. It’s just not. At the end of the day I get more shit because my partner is a transman, than I would get from being in a monogamous partnership with a cis-man.
oh I see
So when you don’t want to have sex without forming an emotional attachment that’s an orientation and therefor subject to privilege/oppression dynamics
but when I enjoy casual sex it’s a behavior so it’s perfectly fine for people to treat me like shit for being a slut, and that has nothing to do with misogyny or homophobia, because it’s just about my sexual behavior.
good to know.
P.S. “orientation is not behavior” will never not remind me of ex-gay ministries and people saying that queer people can and should just choose not to ACT on their desires.
Yeah! This is my issue with straight folks coming up with their own “queer” identities based on the way they practice HETEROSEXUAL relationships. Hetero “demisexuals,” GTFO of Queer, and for chrissakes try to understand that some spaces are just not for you.
the only work I’m proud of this semester
PRINTED. DONE.
For Ben Katchor’s Visual Narrative 2 class. Pretty sure the only story he likes is the one I hate which is basically about how put-upon I feel for having to be around other humans on crowded trains (not pictured). WHATEVER BRO.
These are so good y’all. I also feature in the second one in which I compliment some dude on his honey buns.
There is a bar in Williamsburg called “Privilege.” I think some people need to sit the fuck down in there and examine it a little, yeah?
