January 2012
48 posts
Watchrachel dratch on funny or die
i'm opening a bed&breakfast called "snoozin 'n...
Derrick Jensen: There’s this absolutely extraordinary book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, and in this book he describes how it was that men — people, but men in this case — who had taken the Hippocratic Oath could work in Nazi death camps. And what he found was that many of the doctors who worked in the death camps actually cared very deeply for the health of the inmates. And, you know, Mengele was, you know, horrible. But a lot of the sort of straight-line doctors were just — they would do whatever they could. They would give them an extra scrap of potato to eat or - the inmates. Or they would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. Or they would -
Amy Goodman: To keep their experiments going?
Derrick Jensen: No, no, no. They would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. They would do this to protect the inmate for that day. They would put them to bed, you know. They would actually do everything — if they were in pain, they would give them aspirin to lick. They would do what they could to help, except for the most important thing of all, which is they wouldn’t question the existence of the entire death camp itself. So they would find themselves working within the rules, however they could, to try to improve conditions marginally. And in retrospect, of course, that’s just not sufficient. And as a longtime activist, I see myself and other activists doing the same thing, that what we do is we do everything that is allowed by those in power to attempt to stop their destruction. But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way to use their rules to actually stop them, they change the rules.
bully bloggers →
The Bully Bloggers are a queer word art group. We write about everything queer, so, pretty much everything. Politics, culture, etiquette, vampires, cartoons, the news, philosophy, utopia and revolution. This blog is our Bully Pulpit; we preach to the converted, the unconverted and the indifferent. We are very serious, but in a silly sort of way. We will be posting on topics that change...
Judith Butler's letter to NYC LGTB Center
Dear Glennda Testone,
I am writing to communicate my outrage and sorrow that our movement has come to this point where it refuses to house an organization that is fighting for social justice. I was appalled to see the very ignorant and hateful messages that supported your center’s decision to ban Siegebusters from holding an event on the topic of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions...
“If a dude needs to come out as a gay dude on Glee, he comes out. If a girl needs...”
– Girls Don’t Need Boys to Rescue Them, AfterEllen.com (via iheartsantanalopez)(via start-anywhere)
10 Ways to Love Others
ohapoeticsoul:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
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listening to wild flag’s romance and wilson philips’ hold on back-to-back front-to-front
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“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via someplaceremote)
Watchthedailywhat:
Another Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Moonrise Kingdom — the latest installment in Wes Anderson’s storied directorial repertoire.
The film, which stars Anderson vets Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman alongside Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, is set to open in theaters May 25th.
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Salt Lake Trib: Cancer victims, advocates press... →
Barbie has been an astronaut, an architect, a NASCAR driver, and a news anchor.
Now, there’s an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet, going bald to fight cancer.
A Facebook page titled “Beautiful and Bald Barbie! Let’s see if we can get it made” was started a few days before Christmas. By Wednesday, the site had more than 16,000 fans. The goal is to...
“What do you dress like? Are you the poster child for the under-nourished and...”
RAPE IS MORE COMMON THAN SMOKING IN THE U.S. →
msamberhazard:
catamite:
I want to graffiti that headline EVERYWHERE.
Sooooo money goes towards preventing and legislating against smoking but not rape prevention… I mean, how much fucking money goes into those worthless ads about quitting smoking? How much of that could go towards sexual education?
stuffdjemtronlikes:
Jai Paul- BTSTU
I’ve been...
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“I would like to examine the ways in which mythologies of geography—specifically,...”
– the gist of the next five months of my life
if you need me i'll be self-imagining as an...
“The panel is roughly organized around homosexuality and discourse, so...”
– one of my committee members, asking me to go to a conference with her
Psyched: Dear University of Utah Officials: →
brainpsyched:
Recently, the University of Utah had a chance to do the right thing. They’ve had the opportunity before, but it’s never been this easy- the “right thing” has never been so clear. But, in the tawdry name of tradition, the University has decided to stand behind their offensive,…
i'm just a teenage dirtbag baby
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December 2011
85 posts
“What we are wearing is political and has really high stakes! The conditions of...”
– Dean Spade in an interview with Queer Couture (via majesticlegay)
i always get sick when i come home
my parents are so stressful