stfuconservatives:

autumnyte:

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Well, here’s the deal, anon. The Salvation Army is an evangelical Christian group, and they impose those beliefs on the people that they employ and the communities they serve. Here are a few examples:

They are so opposed to LGBT rights that they have lobbied multiple times for exemptions from Federal and Local anti-discrimination laws, and threatened to withdraw their services. 

They refused to provide shelter to a homeless gay couple, unless they broke up and renounced their homosexuality. 

They refused to provide a transgender woman with shelter that was congruent with her gender presentation, instead insisting she house with men. She chose instead to sleep on the sidewalk and died from the cold.  

Speaking of gender, there was also this charming incident where one of their hostels refused to open the door for a 17-year-old victim who had just been brutally raped (or even call the police for her) because that particular hostel had a strict “men only” policy.

Children who can’t prove their immigration status are turned away.

The organization also disposes of any Harry Potter or Twilight related donations (rather than giving them to other charities), because they claim the toys are “incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs”. 

During the Bush Administration (thanks to ‘faith-based initiatives’) they fired about 20 long-time employees (Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Gay), simply for refusing to sign the organization’s statement of Christian belief.  

So, that—in a nutshell—is what’s wrong with it.

Winter is coming… and so are their buckets. Remember this when they’re bothering you for change.

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11:19 pm  •  4 August 2012  •  11,765 notes

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esquemasjuveniles:

the jacket makes the bondage more taut by way of the accumulation of heat which i suppose is the point

Pastel winter coat bondage is so hot right now because of august weather keep cool etc.

what my fantasies looked like before i knew what sex was

6:05 pm  •  4 August 2012  •  658 notes

whendidthisbecomehotterthanthis:

thinking about something jack halberstam said about butches being seen as failed men, therefore undesirable and marred… pathetic failures. also thinking that butches resist commodification.. hyperreality.. media representation..

what is desirable butch…

yes totally. any kind of masculinity (especially white masculinity) needs to be critical, feminist etc., or it’s just going to be terrible.

7:17 am  •  3 August 2012  •  4 notes

thinking about something jack halberstam said about butches being seen as failed men, therefore undesirable and marred… pathetic failures. also thinking that butches resist commodification.. hyperreality.. media representation..

what is desirable butch embodiment

i can perform butch when I’m in women’s space, but in general public when i’m read as a man i’m just some queerdo fag. but i guess i’m not performing butch for them. who gives a shit. butch failure is ok. when i move in lesbian circles and get consistently read as butch then i’m happy. butch comes from a community, butch has a community history (herstory). thats important.

butch is also silly :)

11:01 pm  •  2 August 2012  •  4 notes

wouldn’t it be cool to be a dude

and have a lot of sex with this other dude

and then be gay forever

9:22 pm  •  2 August 2012  •  1 note

[Image: Anime illustration of Michiko, a black Latino woman with long black hair, big hoop earrings, a red jacket and white shorts sitting on her motorcycle with her companion Hana, a light-skinned girl with dirty-blonde hair in pigtails and donning a pale dress, standing behind her.]

TV Appreciation: Michiko to Hatchin

Strong brown characters, a Brazilian setting, and women surviving in a world that doesn’t want them: not the plot of your typical anime!

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12:52 am  •  29 July 2012  •  131 notes

i’m going to write lyrical poems about cats

12:43 am  •  29 July 2012

acaskofbrando:

Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literature

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“Setting himself against the growing tendency to homogenize “Third World” literature and cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major theoretical statements on “colonial discourse” and “post-colonialism,” dismantling many of the commonplaces and conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the genealogy of the term “Third World,” and of the conditions under which so-called “colonial discourse theory” emerged in metropolitan intellectual circles.”

Excerpt:

The brief discussion of ‘Marx on India’ in Chapter 6, the shortest in the book, is occasioned here formally by Edward Said’s attack on Marx in Orientalism precisely on the issue of India, but I also had some other aspects in mind. Polemical dismissals of Marxism, without any detailed engagement with Marx’s thought, are now a fairly common feature of French poststructuralism and of the straightforwardly right-wing ideas which have arisen in its wake. There has been, since The Order of Things, a pose of weariness and wry contempt. This is duplicated, then, in the whole range of Anglo-American literary poststructualisms — and not only literary, nor only poststructuralisms — where one routinely encounters a dense system of mutual citations and invocations of Foucault and/or Said which portrays Marx as an Orientalistic enthusiast of colonialism. A striking feature of this portrayal of Marx as an Orientalist, based as it is on some journalistic observations about India, is that it never even refers to how those same observations may have been seen by India’s own anti-imperialist historians. The key fact about the post-colonial history of the so-called Third World is that each nation-state came under the dominance of a distinct national bourgeoisie (existing or emergent) as it emerged from the colonial crucible and was then assigned a specific location in the international division of labour as it is organized by imperialism, so that the period has come to be characterized not by greater unity but by increasing differentiation and even competitiveness among these states.

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