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G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

actuallygrimes:

i dont want my words to be taken out of context

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction

i dont want to live in a world where…

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bohemea:

Florence + the Machine - Over the Love (The Great Gatsby soundtrack)

Do I have a career right now? Will I refer to this time as part of my career later? When am I going to have a career? Is this a career? Is this life, or is life going to happen later?
Is everyone still getting married and settling down? Is that something everyone’s eventually going to do? Or did everyone stop doing that? Like, you know how everyone’s parents got married and then got divorced? Is that our destiny?
Am I ever going to identify a city as a place that feels like Home?
– from “27 questions from a 27 yearold” - Thought Catalog

stream: Rhye - Open (S O H N remix)

disconaivete:

When two of the most delicate producers around gather on a remix, delicateness is the keyword. S O H N has remixed Rhye’s beautiful Open (which still makes us cry every single time we hear it) and made the song blossom into a slightly industrial, but never heavy on the beats gem.

LGBT Issues in South African post-apartheid context discussed in this debate from HUMA.

Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.
– Gwen Sharp (via kingslayer-)

(Source: queerblackandproud, via queerasfuck)

Femme Dreamboat: Femme Privilege Does Not Exist

femmedreamboat:

by Cyree Jarelle Johnson

I’m (not) sorry to inform you that femme privilege does not exist. Not in the queer community. Not in the world at large. Does. Not. Exist. In fact, the very idea of inherent “femme privilege” is rooted in misguided misogyny. It operates under the erroneous idea that…

Barack Obama’s mention of gay rights in his inaugural speech. Jan. 21st 2012

Performing one’s gender wrong initiates a set of punishments both obvious and indirect, and performing it well provides the reassurance that there is an essentialism of gentler identity after all. That this reassurance is so easily displaced by anxiety, that culture so readily punishes or marginalizes those who fail to perform the illusion of gender essentialism should be sign enough that on some level there is social knowledge that the truth or falsity of gender is only socially compelled and in no sense ontologically necessitated.
– Butler, Judith. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology
and Feminist Theory” (1988)

G R I M E S: I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living

actuallygrimes:

i dont want my words to be taken out of context

i dont want to be infantilized because i refuse to be sexualized

i dont want to be molested at shows or on the street by people who perceive me as an object that exists for their personal satisfaction

i dont want to live in a world where…

Do I have a career right now? Will I refer to this time as part of my career later? When am I going to have a career? Is this a career? Is this life, or is life going to happen later?
Is everyone still getting married and settling down? Is that something everyone’s eventually going to do? Or did everyone stop doing that? Like, you know how everyone’s parents got married and then got divorced? Is that our destiny?
Am I ever going to identify a city as a place that feels like Home?
– from “27 questions from a 27 yearold” - Thought Catalog

WOW!

stream: Rhye - Open (S O H N remix)

disconaivete:

When two of the most delicate producers around gather on a remix, delicateness is the keyword. S O H N has remixed Rhye’s beautiful Open (which still makes us cry every single time we hear it) and made the song blossom into a slightly industrial, but never heavy on the beats gem.

LGBT Issues in South African post-apartheid context discussed in this debate from HUMA.

Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.
– Gwen Sharp (via kingslayer-)

(Source: queerblackandproud, via queerasfuck)

Femme Dreamboat: Femme Privilege Does Not Exist

femmedreamboat:

by Cyree Jarelle Johnson

I’m (not) sorry to inform you that femme privilege does not exist. Not in the queer community. Not in the world at large. Does. Not. Exist. In fact, the very idea of inherent “femme privilege” is rooted in misguided misogyny. It operates under the erroneous idea that…

Barack Obama’s mention of gay rights in his inaugural speech. Jan. 21st 2012

Performing one’s gender wrong initiates a set of punishments both obvious and indirect, and performing it well provides the reassurance that there is an essentialism of gentler identity after all. That this reassurance is so easily displaced by anxiety, that culture so readily punishes or marginalizes those who fail to perform the illusion of gender essentialism should be sign enough that on some level there is social knowledge that the truth or falsity of gender is only socially compelled and in no sense ontologically necessitated.
– Butler, Judith. “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology
and Feminist Theory” (1988)

bohemea:

Florence + the Machine - Over the Love (The Great Gatsby soundtrack)

"Do I have a career right now? Will I refer to this time as part of my career later? When am I going to have a career? Is this a career? Is this life, or is life going to happen later?
Is everyone still getting married and settling down? Is that something everyone’s eventually going to do? Or did everyone stop doing that? Like, you know how everyone’s parents got married and then got divorced? Is that our destiny?
Am I ever going to identify a city as a place that feels like Home?"
stream: Rhye - Open (S O H N remix)
"Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it."
When that boring old lecturer suddenly quotes Butler
"Performing one’s gender wrong initiates a set of punishments both obvious and indirect, and performing it well provides the reassurance that there is an essentialism of gentler identity after all. That this reassurance is so easily displaced by anxiety, that culture so readily punishes or marginalizes those who fail to perform the illusion of gender essentialism should be sign enough that on some level there is social knowledge that the truth or falsity of gender is only socially compelled and in no sense ontologically necessitated."
When remembering that most people are straight

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