May 24, 2013

boyqueen:

niaking:

Hi!

I am a 25 year old mixed-race queer art activist (writer/filmmaker/illustrator) looking for a roommate to share my sunny, spacious duplex with. The unit is upstairs, located in a safe and quiet neighborhood between Oakland High School and Highland Hospital, (near the 57, 18, NL, 62 and 58L bus lines). The apartment has two bedrooms (I’m in one of them), one bathroom, an eat-in kitchen and a small laundry room. It also has beautiful views of the sunset over the Bay. It’s located only 15 minutes from Mills College (by bus) and 5 minutes from Trader Joe’s and the lake.

I am looking for someone who is clean, quiet and a direct, but respectful communicator. I do not drink or smoke and I would prefer to live with someone who will not bring drugs or alcohol into the house. I spend a lot of time with my partner, a 22 year old white trans guy who is also an artist and activist (singer/songwriter/poet).

Please email me at niaking@zoho.com with a few words about why you think we’d be a good fit. Unfortunately, the landlord does not allow pets.

I look forward to hearing from you. -Nia

P.S. The move-in date is July 1st and the rent is $600/mo.

Also my amazing girlfriend is looking for a roommate!

so many excellent people with rooms open in Oakland, gee whiz

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Filed under: oakland queer qpoc bay area 
May 23, 2013

unimodus:

everyonesahero:

i literaly cannot believe they chose to open the second season of their show with this episode

this scene is so philosophical they can’t look at each other and they must hide their hands behind their backs to shield them from getting scorched by the profoundness of the conversation

how kirk gets from a to b here has never been totally clear to me

(via crusherling)

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Filed under: star trek 
May 23, 2013

topsidepress:

The Unauthorized Orientation Video for the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference has been LEAKED online in advance of the 2013 conference.

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Filed under: trans queer transgender transsexual 
May 23, 2013

so, the author of the children’s book I reblogged has apparently already apologized and talked extensively with folks about this, suggested alternative books by trans authors, etc.  I’m super happy to hear this and I know many other folks will be too!  we all have a right to be angry about whatever we’re angry about, but I am glad to hear that someone wants to recognize that anger as legitimate and act accordingly~

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Filed under: trans queer 
May 23, 2013

heirofmedusa:

youkilledmyfatherpreparetopie:

peachfaerie:

I am excited to release a rough version of my children’s storybook on trans*gender and gender neutral kids. Since I am cisgender I would much appreciate some feedback to anything I’m doing wrong. I really want to do this right. I want this to be stepping stone book for children and parents to talk about this. 

this is beautiful.

This made me happy.

Hi!

So, this is actually has a big problem, in my opinion.  You’re using the most stereotypical and “cisgender safe” images of trans people that you can.  Not all trans men are super masculine, or liked to play with trucks when we were kids; not all trans women are super feminine, and some of them loved a good truck when they were kids.  Not all people who aren’t men or women preferred “gender neutral” toys.  Setting this up as an educational text and then erasing huge swathes of experiences hurts almost as much as it helps!  It was because of narratives like these that for years I thought that I was wrong because I am an effeminate transsexual man.  Please revise this text in such a way as not to promote a strict and gatekept idea of what the “trans experience” might be!

(via queerqueerspawn)

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Filed under: trans queer 
May 23, 2013

featuringmoments asked: what does gay mean, then?

I have really no idea but here is an instructive example that I have found helpful in the past

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxMVKbve8HI

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May 23, 2013

oh my god, I think I might be mad at Amanda McBroom?!?! she has a song making fun of Sondheim in a very shallow and very intellectually dishonest way that OWES HIM A LARGE DEBT STYLISTICALLY?  I’m mad at her?

WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING IN WHERE OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN AND STEPHEN SONDHEIM ARE SOMEHOW OPPOSED STYLISTICALLY

“everyone wants to finish the hat”

what world are you living in, Amanda?  what American musical theatre are you living in?????

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Filed under: music stephen sondheim amanda mcbroom 
May 23, 2013

neednothavehappenedtobetrue asked: he liked me. he would never have physically harmed me, but he was upsetting my disabled student so much she almost dropped the class! plus I love a work environment where some of my students don't think I should be alive! one day he asked me if my parents lives would be better if they had aborted me. that little girl was badass, though, she wrote a persuasive essay that started with "why anyone who believes in eugenics is dumb" and backed it up with sources! he was so mad and I could not care.

the little girl in your class sounds rad and like she is going to sit somewhere very much like the teahaus one day and tell that story to friends very much like us, hahaha

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Filed under: neednothavehappenedtobetrue 
May 23, 2013

miltonicsmile asked: would it be alright to reblog your post about sporadic cultural education and the Bob Dylan? it is sweet and a very good reflection and also I had a v v similar secret garden sort of cultural-dearth of an upbringing (with exceptions from another century) that i would like to talk about + reference some of your terminology (in a separate post.

yeah, absolutely! I’m very interested in experiences that intersect in any way with mine because like—I don’t know anyone who grew up the way I did and the small linkages of affinity that do appear are endlessly interesting to me!

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Filed under: miltonicsmile 
May 23, 2013

neednothavehappenedtobetrue asked: I have told you this before, but I worked last year with a kid who liked me and wanted to be my friend and wanted no disabled people ever to be born anymore forever. he did not see a contradiction in this. he terrified me and he terrified one of my students and I did the best I could for her but, like, I reported him and everyone was like "just ignore it, just redirect him, don't take it seriously, he's fifteen and you're twenty, he can't make you feel unsafe"

the idea that you aren’t really a person until you’re in your early twenties (minimum) does NOTHING GOOD for ANYBODY

also the idea that a fifteen-year-old boy isn’t going to hurt anyone—I mean really, to be honest, fifteen-year-old boys are a demographic that I think of as especially prone to hurting people???

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Filed under: neednothavehappenedtobetrue ableism for ts 
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