March 2012
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TransGriot: Monica's University of Arizona speech →
February 2012
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Drop the charges against CeCe! →
Book: Going Native - Indians in the American... →
fuckyeahradicalliterature:
Note: Digital Read
URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?d98s24jd2t09b2y
Quotes from book:
“The Indian Wars have never ended in the Americas.” -Leslie Marmon Siko, Almanac of the Dead
“Indians, the original possessors of the land, seem to haunt the collective unconscious of the white man and…
January 2012
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ALERT: JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT
BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool essential to their livelihood. Please flood the office of Robert Carolin and tell him the elders need to eat during the...
November 2011
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October 2011
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Changing the Framework: Disability Justice →
We cannot fight for liberation without a deep, clear understanding of disability, ableism and disability justice. The bodies of our communities are under siege by forces that leverage violence and ableism at every turn. Ableism is connected to all of our struggles because it undergirds notions of whose bodies are considered valuable, desirable and disposable. How do we build across our...
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Mobile Homecoming →
Coming home. Our youth and our elders express the same desire: “A place to feel at home, and loved and wanted.” It is with great love, honor and respect that we write to introduce (or reintroduce) you to the MobileHomecoming Project: A Queer Black Experiential Archive. We, Julia Roxanne Wallace of Queer Renaissance and Alexis Pauline Gumbs of BrokenBeautiful Press, have decided to...
September 2011
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Del matrimonio Gay y su llegada a NY →
The “desires” for a better life for some are always already predicated on the permanent structural abeyance of the collective unmeet needs of the many –the rabble. The asymmetric relationship between sanctioned elite, normalizing desires and the subsidizing of these desires by mass unmet needs are at the heart of this society. –Edgar Rivera Colón
July 2011
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I'm the same as I was when I was six years-old.:... →
reinventionoftheprintingpress:
They broke hir motorized wheelchair and arrested hir and 42 others. Several have been accused of felonies, but I am unsure what these charges are at the present moment. I have only been able to talk to hir briefly so I am still sorting out all of the details. What I do know is that all of the 30…
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Is 'The Bay' An Island? →
mewmewfoucault:
msamberhazard:
A look at race, gentrification, and local queers in The Bay.
wrote a post on this and then accidentally deleted it - hope to write more in a while
in the mean time, do read this essay if you have the time and energy to do so; it’s a really on-point critique of how fucked the social practice of queer migration to the SF bay - and a lot of rad queer culture and...
June 2011
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curate:
Initially the organization worked on homelessness and welfare as its primary issues. Many people do not think about welfare and public assistance in the U.S. and how it impacts low-income LGBT people. In 1997, the federal government passed the Welfare Reform Act, which ended public assistance, and welfare, as we once knew it. Part of that policy change created a situation where...
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Trans* Racism, Queer Racism
lakalenyu:
artoftransliness:
I would like to call out my fellow white trans* and genderqueer folks on some serious racism and cultural appropriation I see within the trans*/GQ spaces we dominate. This racism carries extra weight when we are educating cis folks on what language to use when referring to trans* people(s).
First: the term “Two Spirit” belongs to First Nation/Native...
Following the revelation that "Amina" was a hoax... →
tal9000:
I started to write all this after Amina Araf story was one of the lead stories in the media after her alleged arrest. As I was about to publish my views about her and her stories, I was stunned by the latest post that was published on that blog. Instead of not publishing what I have wrote, I thought people in the west should know about the secret police in...
May 2011
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Finch Note: Please help out activists of color in... →
I know everyone has been obsessed with the Eli Clare post recently (it’s our most reblogged for some reason) but I’d urge everyone to please read this blog entry. For this post, I’m stepping outside my usual writings of QF to talk more specifically to larger issues of racism and injustice going on at multiple levels in the state of California and the US as a whole. Some of my...
April 2011
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COLORLINES: Weighing Solutions to Hate Crime After... →
Less than a week after the ruthless videotaped beating of 22-year-old transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis at a Baltimore-area McDonald’s, progressive and queer communities are grappling with a host of difficult questions: How do we create safer communities for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people? And for advocates who worry about overly aggressive policing and sentencing in ...
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A Gay Girl in Damascus: Thanks, but no thanks, Mr.... →
DAMASCUS – April 25, 2011 – As I write this, I’m given to understand that the Obama administration is considering increasing sanctions against Syria as punishment for President Bashar Assad’s government’s violent crackdown on protesters. The executive order will empower President Obama to freeze the assets of senior Syrian officials and bar them from engaging in any business...
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Neither black man nor black woman: Living on the... →
queerbrownxx:
Calling yourself genderqueer may be radical in terms of rejecting a heteronormative gender binary, but it can also involve a painful struggle to find a place where you fit in, writes Toi S.
queer fury is at ucr qpoc conference!!!!
Hey all! Two thirds of qf (finch and robin) are at uc riverside attending the qpoc confernce! If you are also attending send us a message so we can meet up and talk about it or stuff.
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“Contemporary cultural debate in the United States has tended to depoliticize the...”
– Coco Fusco. “Who’s Doin’ the Twist? Notes Towards a Politics of Appropriation.” English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas. 70-71.
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Representation of transsexual women in prison
The fight of transsexual women in prison for transsexual medical treatment, our human dignity and other things, is an extremely personal fight, very direct, very close, touching. This intimate experience - to the day, hour, minute, second, and thought - is ongoing. There is no broken space. Only the person in that immediate space can represent the moment.
Inasmuch as some transsexual women on...
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Two-Spirit people & Women-Only Spaces.
curiouserjane:
One of the ways I have experienced feminism re-settling (or re-invading) Turtle Island is through “women-only” spaces. They claim that being a woman means being born female and that all who live as women and female are capital “F” feminists needing space without males and men.
“Women-only” spaces say that only people who experience misogyny and sexism are people born female and...
March 2011
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“… I sometimes try to shake people up by suggesting that patriachy killed...”
– Mari J Matsuda. “Standing by my sister, facing the enemy: legal theory out of coalition.” Where is your body? and other essays on race and gender and the law. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996 (65-66).
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Why Secularism is Not the Answer: Gays in the...
In the past 48 hours, a debate has erupted on the facebook page of the movement to “overthrow the political sectarian regime in Lebanon.” This debate was not about how to accomplish this lofty goal, or how to better strategize for more effective and powerful street demonstrations, or even what the actual demands of the movement are, should be, and how these demands can be enacted. Rather,...
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Racialicious: Exotic Taboo →
My article on feeling invisible in the queer community due to my ethnic look and roots.
Submitted by tiaramerchgirl.
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“I want to avoid cauterized narratives, the ones we all know, of the Southern...”
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Eric Stanley, “Race Haunted, Otherwise” in Nobody Passes: rejecting the rules of gender and conformity ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
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“When people of color attempt to critically intervene and oppose white supremacy,...”
– bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
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An open letter to Queer academics, artists, and... →
Dear queers, academics, artists and activists,
Some of you might be planning a visit to Israel to participate, and maybe even support, queer, cultural or academic events. Some of you might be visiting for religious or personal reasons, or perhaps simply out of curiosity. While an invitation to Israel might seem flattering and exciting, we hope that – before taking a stand and booking that...
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Heather has two mommies and they’re both caucasian... →
The institutional changes that we are led to believe are almost complete in Northern Europe and America have been captured in fragments of rainbow-adorned snippets, in the diversity of family constellations presented in children’s literature. The colours are so bright, the fonts so bold and the rhymes so captivating, it is tempting to believe that that old myth of homophobia is just a ...
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From Gay Pride to White Pride? Why marching on...
In the last two and a half years, Hackney and Shoreditch, two gentrifying areas in the traditionally working-class and immigrant East End of London, have been the target of a moral panic over Muslim and South Asian youth who, we are told, are always on the look out for the next gay person to attack. As so often, several factors came together to produce this panic:
- A particularly brutal...
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A Black Feminist Statement From The Combahee River...
We are a collective of black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974.1 During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we ...
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queer fury staff addition!
Hey everyone!
Queer Fury has the honour of introducing our newest staff member, criticallyqueer.
Ze sent along a biography for us to share with you:
Yo-el is a queer, tranz & questioning person. When ze was 5, an 80 lb. beam of iron fell from a third story balcony fell and cracked through ze’s skull— this largely affects ze’s hormones and the faggerina dance of...
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Queer Indigenous Studies: A Conversation with the... →
What brought you to this work and why do you feel it is important?
SM: As our Introduction discusses, we pursued publication interest in a panel we presented at the 2008 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) meetings. Some of the contributors were in our audience that day; others contacted us or were people we contacted whose work expanded what started at NAISA. As...
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I’ve noticed that you often use the phrase “life...
sansrevolution:
• • • low end theory: Guernica: I’ve noticed that you often use the phrase “life chances.”…
lowendtheory:
Guernica: I’ve noticed that you often use the phrase “life chances.” Why not just say “the distribution of wealth”?
Dean Spade: I think that to me “life chances” is a phrase that captures the many, many vectors of harm and well-being that are being distributed in...
the boy wonder: Support Needed: Police Repression... →
Yesterday, at Laney Community College, in Oakland California, a gender-queer student, Jesse Trepper, was violently arrested by Alameda Sheriffs, while participating in the March 2nd Day of Action in defense of education.
Peralta students marched on the district office demanding to meet with the…
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People of Color Organize! Word to the Wise:...
By definition, white privilege is not earned. Wise doesn’t have to do anything to gain access to the benefits assigned to the social construct of racialized whiteness. Even his apparent efforts to expose it have not caused the white establishment to banish him or treat him like a person of color. Given that Wise isn’t saying anything new or revolutionary in regards to how to eradicate...
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People of Color Organize! Word to the Wise:...
The first of these white privileges is one I have already addressed: The ability to paraphrase and/or otherwise exploit the analysis of Black liberation struggle and have it received by others as though it were their own. In the past decade or so, there has grown a cottage industry of books written by white people talking about their whiteness and their awareness of racism. When these white...
February 2011
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People of Color Organize! Word to the Wise:...
“My friends, I have come to tell you something about slavery – what I know of it, as I have felt it. When I came North, I was astonished to find that the abolitionists knew so much about it, that they were acquainted with its effects as well as if they had lived in its midst. But though they can give you its history – though they can depict its horrors, they cannot speak as I can from...
skinner0box asked: I've got a mohawk of dreadlocks. Is this appropriation?
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“To the average uninterested American eye, however, a turban is just a turban....”
– Jasbir K. Puar and Amit S.Rai “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots” Social Text 20.3, Duke University Press, 2002, Pg. 117-148
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staff application →
We’re still looking for people willing to help us out with this project.
Cheers, Julian!
queerfury:
queer fury is a developing tumblr blog dedicated to talking/discussing racism in queer communities. We’re currently looking for another staff member to help us get this rolling. We’re seeking radical, queer, people of any gender or race or ethnicity, who have previous experience in...
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“I want to write about the body, not as a metaphor, symbol, or representation,...”
– Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness”, Public Culture 13.3, Duke University Press, 2001, Pg. 359-365.
QF NOTE: (If you haven’t read any of his work you should, his writing is so beautiful. You can learn more about Eli Clare and his writing and...
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Decolonize Your Mind: Queer People of Colour... →
[ Decolonise Your Mind: Queer People of Color Conference April 8-10 2011 UC Riverside ]
I encourage those who can to attend this conference! If you’re gonna be attending, send a message to Queer Fury and perhaps we can meet up for tea or coffee? ;D
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Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian...
Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia, and the Egyptian Revolution* by Nadine Naber “… I’m making this video to give you one simply message: We want to go down to Tahrir Square on January 25. If we still have honor and want to live with dignity on this land, we have to go down on January 25. We’ll go down and demand our rights, our fundamental human rights…The entire government is corrupt—a corrupt...
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aswat voices →
We promote Arab gay women, support them on all personal and social levels, thus creating dialogue and change within our Arab Palestinian society towards homosexuality. In addition to the provision of moral support, we also conduct monthly meetings, offer support groups, provide a support and consultation line, implement empowerment sessions and awareness raising workshops, provide ...
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A Few Good Reasons Why White People Should Not...
Created by Qwo-Li Driskill and Colin Kennedy Donovan for Planting Seeds Community Awareness Project. www.pscap.org,
The struggle against racism is more than just not saying racist comments or knowing that the United States was built by slave labor. It is also a struggle to recognize and understand the ways racism/white supremacy are woven into every aspect of life. One of the ways racism plays...