January 2012
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search, hopefully not destroyed.
yoursecretary:
the person who had my job before me was instrumental in building a teen loft that included a large zine collection that was subsequently dismantled due to a departmental battle between youth and adult services.
no one knows where those zines went.
This is analogous to my entire professional life.
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vladislava:
Earlier this month, I filled in for...
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I want new glasses that don’t look like I got them out of a vending machine. Where should I look? Thanx internet.
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Call for Papers: Delany at 70 (The Fifth Annual DC... →
We invite proposals for presentations at DELANY AT 70, the 5th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Maryland. The symposium will be a daylong series of conversations in critical queer, race, and gender studies inspired by the multifaceted cultural work of author, literary critic, and professor Samuel R. Delany, whose seventieth birthday is April 1, 2012. Events will include...
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“Look at people on the street and in malls—jeans and sneakers remain the standard...”
– Kurt Andersen, From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? (via alexbaca)
Is this true? Also, this article compared Lady Gaga and Madonna to prove its point, and another writer in the same issue lauded Lady Gaga’s true originality. Whatevs.
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“you sound like a mutated cross between a grizzly bear and ‘bro’” —my boo
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Cruise Control
thenewinquiry:
Grindr is an app men can put on their phones to find other men to have sex with. But it automates the work that once made a subversive and politically potent world.
by Max Fox
Last Thanksgiving, more men logged on to Grindr, the largest “all-male, location-based social network in the world,” than any other day of the year. Somehow, Grindr managed to tout this fact without...
Why is the descriptor “color blocking” used so loosely by retailers? This is the question of the hour.
Social Text: Periscope: Vampires and Cyborgs:... →
ireadgood:
For Butler and Monáe, transhuman disabled bodies offer possibility and freedom that simple humanity forecloses. Monáe’s use of disability as metaphor supports her alter ego’s search for a freedom in a world much like our own. However, by reducing disability to metaphor and by using ableist language, the real lives of disabled people are obscured. Butler’s depiction of Shori’s...
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Rick Santorum says no Palestinians in West Bank,... →
femmefag:
As my friend Mej so succinctly put it: “The Republicans are having a contest about who can say the most absurd shit on one campaign trail.”
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oh my god birls is on tumblr.
don’t…get…sucked…back….
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