February 2012
114 posts
Sex Work: A Feminist Legal Perspective →
etiquette-etc:
“… sex work is not inherently violent or degrading. The exchange of money for sex does not hurt women; violent people, discrimination and dangerous laws do.”
Self-care, bitches.
ashleyaron:
I gotta be honest, kids. Things are rough. This thing happens when the people that made you die, where you stop knowing how to take care of yourself. It’s like when your mom goes away for the weekend and leaves you in the house to fend for yourself and you eat nothing but frozen pizza for three days, and you have to carve your way through empty chip bags and pairs of your socks on...
So dedicated to dressing up as Andrea Gibson for tonight’s pubcrawl that I just gave myself a haircut to get it just right. I may or may not regret this in the morning.
my room smells like a perpetual fart
poowithmaboo:
We’ll be back posting soon! Love and hugs and hoping that by now you’ve managed to tackle steps one and two and are ready to blast, push and explode your way through the next few.
YESSS!!! I’ve been waiting for you, PWMB!
Cooking dinner for myself and hanging out in the kitchen alone obviously calls for a MICHELLE BRANCH SING-ALONG
Aboriginal Doula Training to Be Offered →
serifedlife:
etiquette-etc:
The first training session of the year for aboriginal doulas will take place from March 4 through 8 in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Training, travel, accommodations and course materials will be provided. February 24 is the deadline to apply.
Training will take place from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 4 and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. from the fifth through the...
10 Ways to Love Others →
terramantra:
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...
“Tomorrow at 3PM Eastern time and whateveroclock your time, I will be joining...”
– Thursday! 3PM Eastern, Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit on Fat & Queer! (via queerfatfemme)
SO EXCITED
(via tangledupinlace)
woo hoo oo woo hoo oo
(via fuckyeahwoolsocks)
“Start out perfect and don’t change a thing. Always accentuate your best features...”
– Miss Piggy (via fellinlovewithagrrl)
being gay is the best.
Yeah, I look super fat in that last picture. I GET...
tangledupinlace:
I’ve got to play a raucous game of Bananagrams and eat some ice cream, so I’ll make this short.
Those intense feelings of anger and upset you feel when you think about how visible my fat body is in that outfit picture, are not, and will never be about, your concern about my quality of life or my ability to suck the world dry of resources in order to sustain this offensive...
In The Family: The Queer Rolodex →
tothedirigible:
etiquette-etc:
About a month ago, one of my closest friends had a pretty major health scare. Being the good West Coast queer I am, one of the first things I did was call a friend and ask her to whip up a batch of her herbal Trauma Tea to tamper the side effects of his medication and make him laugh at how woo I’d become. She literally lives across the street but I rarely see...
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy)
“And don’t give me that, “Oh we reached out to communities of color but they...”
– From “…On Taking Up Space” by witchymorgan on the Bklyn Boihood blog
I also love the paragraph after this one but it’s a short article and I’ve included links. This could be a good resource to send people if they don’t get why POC often don’t feel comfortable in many queer/trans* spaces.
(via...
an online collection of queer love poems just... →
“Better to follow your heart, if you can find it. If you can’t find it, just jump...”
– Osho Zen Tarot, “Schizophrenia” (via etiquette-etc)
For the first time ever, my cat slept on my bed for the entire night last night, and usually he is awake and wreaking havoc somewhere in my room by 6:30am but today I woke up at 8:30 and I was spooning him and I thought, damn, what a good Valentine’s Day present.
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via birdr)