Unschooled Seminarian

anarcho-queer: Fuck the HRC! Fuck their mainstream/assimilated...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:34:42 -0400

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..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:30:46 -0500

“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.

shutthefuckupstraightpeople: agender-unicorn: yourfriendlyscop: No matter what conservative...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:30:04 -0500

shutthefuckupstraightpeople:

agender-unicorn:

yourfriendlyscop:

No matter what conservative Christians believe, homophobia is secular.

and pretending that it only exists in religious spaces is seriously fucking harmful shit because it gets het atheists thinking that they can’t be homophobic

Bolding mine.

preach!

"Whenever the need for some pretence of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression..."

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:13:32 -0500

“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..."

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:10:00 -0500

“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)

The problems of the privileged are like rifle recoil.

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:31:46 -0500

lucidstrike:

The rifle isn’t aimed at you. Your faint aches do not compare to the experiences of those under fire.

"Students are oversaturated with fragmented academic information, not underexposed to content. They..."

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:14:13 -0500

“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...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:12:00 -0500

“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.

A Christian Reflection on DADT Repeal...a year after.

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:26:31 -0400

A Christian Reflection on DADT Repeal...a year after.:

Just finished an article on DADT repeal for Jesus Radicals. Read up!

youngbadmanbrown: “These incidents may appear small, banal and...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:38:53 -0400

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

Don’t forget that a conservative estimate says that 40% of...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:59:53 -0400

Don’t forget that a conservative estimate says that 40% of our young friends living on the streets identify as queer. This is the cause queer folks need to talk about. Leave that legal marriage sh*t alone!

Ministers like Midwives

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:02:46 -0400

Herbalists, midwives, homeopaths, acupuncturists…most of these folks don’t go to traditional universities. Where I live, these healing arts are taught in small community-based schools or through apprenticeships.

Ministry is a healing art. Ministry done the right way is subversive work that, among other things, heals the wounds inflicted by the culture of death and rape. With that in mind, isn’t it most appropriate for the seminarian to be schooled in the way other alternative healers are, that is, by the community and its elders? Shouldn’t the student of ministry resist being schooled in institutions supported, financially and ideologically, by the state that favors wealth and war over wellness?

Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:32:42 -0400

Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in America [full video]

Amen.

paleopostmodernism: “The study is not measured by the number of...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:04:18 -0400

paleopostmodernism:

“The study is not measured by the number of pages read in one night, or by the number of books read in a semester. Studying is not an act of consuming ideas, but rather one of creating them and recreating them.”

"Oppressed people do not and should not have to explain their oppression to their oppressor, nor..."

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:45:58 -0400

“Oppressed people do not and should not have to explain their oppression to their oppressor, nor tailor their resistance to the comfort of the oppressors and their supporters.”

- Linah Alsaafin, How obsession with “nonviolence” harms the Palestinian cause (via humanformat)

Wretch: The Day-planner

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:43:27 -0400

Wretch: The Day-planner :

Last week at the annual Jesus Radicals conference folks working on the wretch project ran a zine workshop. Below is a little snippet about what wretch is. For ways to contribute, check out their website.

“In making wretch, we aim to produce a day-planner and resource guide for conscientious Christians who are working toward social justice and anti-political movements and those who are looking for a way to connect to the radical Christian community.”

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:05:39 -0400

““I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.””

- Stephen Jay Gould (via feministpizza)

"Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based..."

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:30:13 -0400

“Caucasian students receive more than three-quarters (76%) of all institutional merit-based scholarship and grant funding, even though they represent less than two-thirds (62%) of the student population.
Caucasian students are 40% more likely to win private scholarships than minority students. These statistics demonstrate that, as a whole, private sector scholarship programs tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race.”

- The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race

i am so sick of white people coming to me talking about “affirmative action” and how there aren’t any scholarships for white kids. let me get my fucking violin out

(via esaedders)

New Anarchist Press Needs a Boost...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:49:49 -0400

New Anarchist Press Needs a Boost...:

Giles Corey Press is looking to take their first edition of Three Word Chant, ” a journal for collecting radical thought that aims to expand our discourse and stretch the expectations of our subculture”, to print. They will also be printing several books from their summer catalog. Check out their kickstarter, throw some money their way, and rake in the awesome rewards.

Three Word Chant is now available online for free if you want to take a look. My article about how the Occupy movement handled higher education is included in this inaugural issue.

harmreduction: Interested in alternatives to the Prison...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:53:01 -0400

harmreduction:

Interested in alternatives to the Prison Industrial Complex? Check out what what this Chicago-based youth project is doing to promote alternatives to calling the police. Great stuff.