“adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience”
they/them | 19 | peruvian artist, writer, & occasional musician set up in tallahassee
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Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
Oh wow a piece of lgbt history..
They cannot erase us from history!! We have always been here!
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (via observando)
But institutional racism is imaginary, right?
never stop reblogging this
i haven’t seen a lot about this on here yet so if you weren’t already aware, last night in tallahassee florida a man shot and killed two women by open-firing at a yoda studio. Since then it’s come to light that the shooter proudly called himself a misogynist and described himself as “involuntarily celibate” aka part of the incel community. He had a youtube channel where he regularly posted misogynistic and far right extremist rants about his hatred for women, interracial relationships, black people, and gay people. In one video he even references Elliot Rodger, a sort of “incel icon” who was responsible for killing six people in California in 2014 with the motive of hating women. He had also been arrested twice for groping women in the past. This whole thing feels frighteningly similar to the LA Fitness shooting back in 2009 where a man open-fired at a women’s aerobics class and killed three women and afterwards a note was found in his bag describing how much he hated women.
I feel like sometimes the way feminism and misogyny are discussed today waters things down so much that we can forget that misogyny isn’t just some buzzword we came up with to discuss how men can be assholes, and that it has an actual body count. The hated of women is a real, insidious thing that fuels violence in men and it’s terrifying to think that just existing as a woman puts a target on your back and you might be gunned down by some creep who blames you for the fact that he isn’t having sex. And the rise of the “incel” movement and figures like jordan peterson have only fueled this. Violent misogyny still exists in 2018 and it’s truly frightening.
Bernice Bing (1936 - 1998)
A San Francisco native, Chinese American, artist, lesbian, community activist—Bernice Bing, was a bridge between many worlds. She came of age during the Beat era and entered the San Francisco arts landscape in the 1960s with her paintings, which synthesize abstract modernist painting with Chinese calligraphy.