Unschooled Seminarian

anarcho-queer:

Fuck the HRC! Fuck their mainstream/assimilated politics. Fuck their whitewashing of queer culture and conforming to the capitalist heteropatriarchal ‘norm’. Fuck their demotion of trans* rights in the queer struggle. Fuck them for dismissing queer POC issues while focusing all their attention to the gay white middle/upper class in return for donations. Fuck them for policing gender roles and identity and attempting to erase transvestism and drag from gay culture to make the community look more attractive to the heterosexual majority. Fuck the HRC for pretending to care for LGBTQ people when in reality, the L and G are the only acronyms they care to ‘help’. Fuck the HRC for refusing to recognize and help LGBTQ sex workers. Fuck the HRC for ignoring pressing LGBTQ issues like (youth) homelessness, high unemployment for transgender folks and unaffordable housing for elderly queers. Fuck the HRC for everything they’ve done to hurt queer liberation in return for the right to serve in the military and live a heteronormative lifestyle. Fuck the HRC!
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anarcho-queer:

Fuck the HRC! Fuck their mainstream/assimilated politics. Fuck their whitewashing of queer culture and conforming to the capitalist heteropatriarchal ‘norm’. Fuck their demotion of trans* rights in the queer struggle. Fuck them for dismissing queer POC issues while focusing all their attention to the gay white middle/upper class in return for donations. Fuck them for policing gender roles and identity and attempting to erase transvestism and drag from gay culture to make the community look more attractive to the heterosexual majority. Fuck the HRC for pretending to care for LGBTQ people when in reality, the L and G are the only acronyms they care to ‘help’. Fuck the HRC for refusing to recognize and help LGBTQ sex workers. Fuck the HRC for ignoring pressing LGBTQ issues like (youth) homelessness, high unemployment for transgender folks and unaffordable housing for elderly queers. Fuck the HRC for everything they’ve done to hurt queer liberation in return for the right to serve in the military and live a heteronormative lifestyle. Fuck the HRC!


The ‘gay agenda’ has been about passing our apartments to each other when we die, not about increasing affordable housing or opposing illegal eviction. It has been about getting our partnerships recognized so our partners can share our private health benefits not about defending Medicaid rights or demanding universal health care. It has been about getting our young sons into Boy Scouts, not about advocating for the countless/uncounted queer and trans youth struggling against a growing industry of youth incarceration. It has been about working to put more punishment power in the hands of an overtly racist criminal system with passage of hate crimes laws, not about opposing the mass incarceration of a generation of men of color or fighting the abuse of queer and trans people in the adult and juvenile justice settings

Dean Spade from “Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy” (via sage-power)

At one time, this actually wasn’t the agenda but it certainly is now.


Whenever the need for some pretence of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. I am responsible for educating teachers who dismiss my children’s culture in school. Black and third world people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

— Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, in Sister Outsider, page 114-115. (via fucknokyriarchy)


I think we need to talk about how higher education has co-opted the idea of engaged learning. A college is proud of the ‘engagement’ of its students, but there’s no commitment to a particular future as part of that engagement.

— Ithaca Sociology Prof. Alicia Swords. (via locusimperium)


Students are oversaturated with fragmented academic information, not underexposed to content. They are underexposed to the passion of knowing themselves and their society. They are starved for meaningful contexts, for intellectual and emotional pleasure in the life of the mind, for holistic learning that feeds their understanding. Schooling teaches many students that education is a pointless ritual wrapped in meaningless words.

—Ira Shor, _Empowering_Education_ (U Chicago P, 1992), 83.

This book has been a great read so far, and I’m only three chapters in. I’ll probably post about the previous book I read, _Distinguishing_Disability_, at some point too.

: angwe :.

(via resmc)


“I don’t agree or understand some things that have happened….”
-from a card my grandmother sent me after my wedding
” While you believe that marriage can be between two women, I believe that [it] is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman. Therefore, I would not meet your requirement [be excited and supportive] to be in attendance.”
-from a letter from my mother sent explaining why she would not be coming to my wedding
The above photo was taken a month ago as I exchanged vows with my partner of 4 years. I do not believe in legal marriage but I do believe in the power of covenants made between folks in love. Queer people have long laid down their lives for one another without state or familial recognition or approval. We need to be celebrating that reality. View Larger

“I don’t agree or understand some things that have happened….”

-from a card my grandmother sent me after my wedding

” While you believe that marriage can be between two women, I
believe that [it] is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman.
Therefore, I would not meet your requirement [be excited and supportive] to be in attendance.”

-from a letter from my mother sent explaining why she would not be coming to my wedding

The above photo was taken a month ago as I exchanged vows with my partner of 4 years. I do not believe in legal marriage but I do believe in the power of covenants made between folks in love. Queer people have long laid down their lives for one another without state or familial recognition or approval. We need to be celebrating that reality.


youngbadmanbrown:


“These incidents may appear small, banal and trivial, but we’re beginning to find they assail the mental health of recipients.” 
-Sue et. al , 2007

If white people would even admit any of the stuff on this list was racist my life would be easier. 
http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx
youngbadmanbrown:


“These incidents may appear small, banal and trivial, but we’re beginning to find they assail the mental health of recipients.” 
-Sue et. al , 2007

If white people would even admit any of the stuff on this list was racist my life would be easier. 
http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx
youngbadmanbrown:


“These incidents may appear small, banal and trivial, but we’re beginning to find they assail the mental health of recipients.” 
-Sue et. al , 2007

If white people would even admit any of the stuff on this list was racist my life would be easier. 
http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx

youngbadmanbrown:

“These incidents may appear small, banal and trivial, but we’re beginning to find they assail the mental health of recipients.” 

-Sue et. al , 2007


If white people would even admit any of the stuff on this list was racist my life would be easier. 

http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx

(Source: youngbadmangone)