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‘In many ways, the young men who take my seminar — typically, 20 percent of the class — mirror national trends. Based on their grades and writing assignments, it’s clear that they spend less time on homework than female students do; and while every bit as intelligent, they earn lower grades with studied indifference. When I asked one of my male students why he didn’t openly fret about grades the way so many women do, he said: “Nothing’s worse for a guy than looking like a Try Hard.”’

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Young feminist comic Saffron Herndon says “enough” with the bathroom politics! 

Saffron Herndon on Facebook

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Just a few of the queer women that have been killed off

A few statistics about the above characters:   - 12 were from media produced by men   - 7 were killed by white men   - 6 were shot   - 4 had intimate scenes with another woman just before their death   - 3 were women of color   - 3 were from shows on the CW   - 2 were from Pretty Little Liars

↳ “ Every season we celebrate the amount of queer female characters television has gifted us because it’s grown exponentially in the past 10 to 20 years. We’ve seen ourselves on-screen in a number of ways—butch, femme, in-between; all shapes and sizes and colors and ages. And while networks are getting better at putting LGBT women in more recurring and major roles instead of bit parts or very special episodes, one trend remains going strong: They keep getting killed off. In the last two years alone we can count on two hands the number of gay women featured on shows that did not live to see the end of a season, and in the past three months we have said goodbye to three major characters whose very existences were our entry points into their otherwise quite hetero-driven shows. These deaths, whether they are violent murders or inconceivable cancer diagnoses, continue to pain us years after we’ve had to endure them on TV.”         - The 35 Most Horrifying Lesbian/Bi Character Deaths on Television (October 27, 2014)

↳ “The problem isn’t merely that gay characters are killed off: the problem is the tendency that gay characters are killed off far more often than straight characters… Regardless of the overall death toll of a show, the death of a gay character nevertheless has different cultural context & emotional weight, as there are unlikely to be many other gay characters in the piece of media. Gay audience members are generally left with no one else to relate to, or only the grieving partner of the dead gay. Additionally, when one can count on one hand the number of gay main characters in all of the media they consume, the loss of any one of those is generally more keenly felt.”         - Bury Your Gays (TV Tropes)

↳ “That shows everyone who looked up to this relationship, everyone who looked up to them, everyone who saw ourselves in them, everyone who saw them and felt even a little bit justified in that our own sexuality could be valid, it shows us that our love can hurt us. It shows us that our love is tragic. It shows us that our love cannot be. It shows us that we cannot exist. And it hurts.”         - @checkeredsuspenders​​​ (x)

↳ “I can no longer look at one of my favourite shows and say “Look.  There’s a character who’s like me.  There’s a relationship like mine.  There’s a woman whose story doesn’t revolve around her sexuality, and has a relationship with another woman while also having a kickass storyline.  There’s my representation.”  Thanks to you, none of us can do that. And you know what?  We can’t just find that again.  Unlike other relationships, there aren’t ten different replacements waiting in other shows.  This was something unique, and special…”         - @carvggio​​ (x)

↳ Further viewing:    - @honestlynatalie​​‘s reaction to The 100 3x07    - @sexyyuglyy’s video on Lexa’s Death (20:29)

thanks to @tmasisthenewblack​​​ for helping with this

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Watch: As Blythe’s poem ends, it’s clear what we must do in the face of rape culture and “pocket feminism.”

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Interested to see a review, how accurately the information is written, and the tone in which it is conveyed. 

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“As a result, white women almost exclusively dominate research on gender bias in male-dominated fields, especially STEM. The implication is that their encounters with gender bias are the default, and women of color should experience the same thing.”

“[W]omen of color face discrimination based on their gender as well as their ethnicity, and the report shows that this has a clear effect on their lives: According to the study, a full 100 percent of the women of color interviewed reported gender bias, compared to 93 percent of white women.”

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Nancy, 2015.

Nancy’s Text, 2015.

That F Word.

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I posted the photo on the left - it got nothing but love from men and women. I posted the photo on the right - it got nothing but love from women and the worst hate from men.

That really says a lot…

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the disgusting truth #FreedomForKesha

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Watch: Everything men need to know about the powerful demon that lives inside women!

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Hi y'all! 

I’ve compiled a list of readings that speak to issues of nationalism, indigeneity, colonialism, and resistance/decolonization

The list is of course limited to what readings I’ve encountered at some point. They also come from a variety of academic disciplines and political movements (settler colonial studies, native studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist studies, trans studies).

And, with a few exceptions, these files were legally uploaded and shared… a lot of the time by the authors themselves, which I feel the need to point out because I love when authors can/do share their work online for free. (I say this not because I’m worried about the sanctity of ‘intellectual property’ but because I’m worried about things being deleted.)

Also re-linking to this list of pdf readings, “Natives Read Too,” from The Yáadihla Girls!  human rights/war/nationalism/sovereignty 

“What Do Human Rights Do?” by Talal Asad

“On Torture: Abu Ghraib by Jasbir Puar

”From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human Rights“ by Susan Koshy

”Necropolitics“ by Achile Mbembe

”Algeria Unveiled“ by Frantz Fanon

A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon

History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postmodernism by Patrick Wolfe

Who Sings the Nation-State? Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak

”Where Lawlessness is the Law: The Settler Colonial Frontier as a Legal Space of Violence“ by Julie Evans

”1492: a New World View“ by Sylvia Wynter

Frames of War by Judith Butler

”Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics“ by Patrick Wolfe

Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin 

transnational/native/postcolonial feminisms & feminist critiques: 

Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism - Trinh T. Minh-Ha

”Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory“ -Hazel V. Carby 

”Transnational Feminist Pedagogy: An Interview with Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan“

”Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses“ by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”Feminist Problematizations of Rights Language“ by Jasbir Puar and Isabelle Barker

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures by M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty

”The Subject of Freedom“ by Saba Mahmood

The Spivak Reader

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

”Colonialism, Nationalism, and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India“ by Partha Chatterjee

”Can the Subaltern Speak?“ Gayatri Spivak

The Politics of the Veil - Joan W. Scott

”Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy“ by Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill

”Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change“ by Andrea Smith 

decolonization, art, and resistance (not necessarily feminist):  

Edward Said and Critical Decolonization 

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said 

”Decolonization is not a Metaphor“ by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

”Decolonizing Antiracism“ by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua

Bury My Art at Wounded Knee / R.I.S.E  

The Boarding School Healing Project 

Center for Third World Organizing 

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid 

queer theory/sexuality studies/native studies/trans studies 

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock

”Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities“ by Jasbir Puar*

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith

”Un-settling Settler Desires“ by Scott Morgensen Also the Unsettling America wordpress.

Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things - Ann Laura Stoler

”Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept“ by Evan B. Towle and Lynn Morgan

”Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran.“ by Afsaneh Najmabadi

”Queer Settler Colonialism in Canada and Israel: Articulating Two-Spirit and Palestinian Queer Critiques“ by Scott Lauria Morgensen

”Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism“ by Andrea Smith 

*Actually just going to link to this page of Dr. Puar’s work because it’s  great and relevant (and she also has a lot of work on Israel/Palestine). critiques of humanitarianism/developmentalism: 

”Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflecting on Canadian Humanitarian Responses“ by Sherene H. Razack

“The Rationality of Empowerment: Microcredit, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Gendered Economy” by Christine Keating, Claire Rasmussen, and Pooja Rish

“Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism” by Talal Asad

“How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina

“Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns” by Elizabeth Bernstein

“Coca-Cola, Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia” Lesley Gill 

[Really wish I knew more about this kind of work.] 

Biopolitics, science, environmental justice 

“Peversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity” -Nayan Shah 

“Your DNA Is Our History:' Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” by Jenny Reardon and Kim TallBear

“Displaying Sara Baartman” by Sadiah Qureshi

“The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now” by Scott Morgensen 

“Black Bodies, White Science” -Brian Wallis 

The Violence of Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics by Vandana Shiva

“The Seed and the Earth” by Vandana Shiva

“Earth Democracy: An Interview with Vandana Shiva”

“Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial” by Suman Seth

and…. U.S. politics  

“Workfare–Warfare: Neoliberalism, 'Active’ Welfare and the New American Way of War” by Julie MacLeavy and Columba Peoples

“Women and Chile at the Alamo: Feeding U.S. Colonial Mythology” by Suzanne Bost

“The People of California are Suffering’: The Ideology of White Injury in Discourses of Immigration” by Lisa Marie Cacho

“American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State” by Andrea Smith