A pragmatic, bleeding heart.

kaleidoscopicunt: “FEMME SHARKS DON’T EAT OUR OWN. FEMME SHARKS LIKE TO EAT THOUGH FEMME SHARKS...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:06:26 -0400

“FEMME SHARKS DON’T EAT OUR OWN. FEMME SHARKS LIKE TO EAT THOUGH FEMME SHARKS RECOGNIZE THAT FEMMES COME IN ALL KINDS OF SIZES AND EACH KIND IS LUSCIOUS. WE WORK TOWARDS LOVING OUR CURVY, FAT, SKINNY, SUPERSIZE, THICK, DISABLED, BLACK AND BROWN FINE-ASS BODIES EVERY DAY. WE REALIZE THAT LOVING OURSELVES IN A RACIST/SEXIST/HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC/ABLIST/CLASSIST SYSTEM IS AN EVERY DAY ACT OF WAR AGAINST THAT SYSTEM. WE SAY SCREW “HEIGHT WEIGHT PROPORTIONATE PLEASE” IN CRAIGSLIST WOMEN SEEKING WOMEN ADS AND IN LIFE. WE HAVE BIG MOUTHS AND WE KNOW HOW TO USE THEM. DON’T FUCK WITH US! ASK US IF WE WANT TO FUCK THOUGH ! FEMME SHARKS WILL RECLAIM THE POWER AND DIGNITY OF FEMALENESS BY ANY MEANS NECCESARY. WE’RE GIRLS BLOWN UP, TURNED INSIDE OUT AND REMIXED. FEMME SHARKS ARE OVER WHITE QUEERS OBLIVIOUSNESS TO QUEER OF COLOR, TWO SPIRIT AND TRANS OF COLOR LIVES. WE KNOW THAT WE ARE A CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE WE’RE OVER WHITE FEMMES AND BUTCHES WHO THINK THAT FEMME ONLY COMES IN THE COLOR OF BARBIE. WE’RE OVER BUTCHES AND BOYS AND OTHER FEMMES TELLING US WHAT WE NEED TO DO, WEAR OR BE IN ORDER TO BE “REALLY FEMME.” FEMME SHARKS RECOGNIZE THAT FEMMES, BUTCHES, GENDERQUEER AND TRANS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR SINCE FOREVER. THAT BEFORE COLONIZATION WE WERE SEEN AS SACRED AND WE WERE SOME OF THE FIRST FOLKS MOST VIOLENTLY ATTACKED WHEN OUR LANDS WERE INVADED AND COLONIZED. FEMME SHARKS WON’T REST UNTIL WE RECLAIM OUR POSITIONS AS BELOVED FAMILY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. FEMME SHARKS AREN’T JUST DIMEPIECES AND TROPHY WIVES FUCK THAT! WE MIGHT BE YOUR GIRL, BUT WE’RE OUR OWN FEMMES. WE RECOGNIZE THAT FEMMES ARE LEADERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES. WE HOLD IT DOWN, CALM YOUR TEARS, ORGANIZE THE RALLY, VISIT YOU IN JAIL, GET CHILDCARE HOOKED UP, LOAN YOU TWENTY DOLLARS. FEMMES ARE WELDERS, AFTERSCHOOL TEACHERS, ABORTION CLINIC WORKERS, STRIPPERS, WRITERS, FACTORY WORKERS, MOMS, REVOLUTIONARIES DEDICATED TO TAKING THE SYSTEM THE HELL DOWN SO WE CAN BE FREE! FEMMES ARE LEADERS IN TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS/ DEFENDING OUR QUEER AND TRANS OF COLOR COMMUNITIES. WE USED OUR STILETTOS AS WEAPONS AT STONEWALL. WE WERE THE TRANSWOMEN WHO FOUGHT BACK AT THE COMPTON CAFETERIA WE’RE THE GIRLS WHO STARE DOWN ASSHOLES STARING AT OUR LOVERS AND FRIENDS ON THE SUBWAY. WE WALK EACH OTHER HOME ACT CRAZY ON THE BUS TO GET ASSHOLES TO MOVE AWAY AND KNOW HOW TO BREAK SOMEONE’S LEGS WE SHARE WHAT WE KNOW. FEMME SHARKS STAND UP FOR THE NEW JERSEY FOUR AND EVERY OTHER QUEER AND TRANS PERSON OF COLOR IN THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX FOR DEFENDING OUR LIVES. WE BELIEVE IN SELF-DEFENSE AND SELF-DETIRMINATION. WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITIES AGAINST ANY KIND OF ATTACK- FROM ASSHOLES ON THE STREET TO RACIST WHITE CLUB OWNERS WHO WANT THREE PIECES OF ID TO FOLKS WHO INSIST THAT WE’RE STRAIGHT. TO PEOPLE WHO TAKE OUR LAND. WE REMEMBER OUR DEAD- SAKIA GUNN, GWEN ARAUJO, AND MANY OTHER QUEER AND TRANS POC WHO DIED BECAUSE OF RACIST, HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC VIOLENCE NOT AS A POLITICAL STATEMENT BUT AS WOMEN WE LOVED IN REAL LIFE WOMEN WHO COULD’VE BEEN US OR OUR LOVES. WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE LEFT OUT OF “THE STRUGGLE.” NOT THIS TIME. WE’RE NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE. FEMMES GODDAMN WELL KNOW HOW TO STRAP IT .. THE OIL IN THE CAR AND PUT UP SHELVES. WE CAN DO ANY GODDAMN THING WE WANT! THAT’S WHY WE’RE FEMME SHARKS! FEMME IS NOT THE SAME THING AS BEING OUR MOMS FEMMES ARE BEAUTIFUL AND STRONG WHEN WE BOTTOM AND WE’RE HOT AS HELL WHEN WE TOP OUR BOTTOMING AND TOPPPING ARE BOTH GIFTS TO BE MET WITH RESPECT. WHEN WE TAKE OUR LOVERS FIST ALL THE WAY INSIDE ASK FOR WHAT WE WANT BE THE BEST DIRTY GIRL OR MAKE OUR LOVERS FLIP WE’RE A FUCKING MIRACLE. IN THE WORDS OF JILL SCOTT, “YOU GOTTA DO RIGHT BY ME. IT’S MANDATORY, BABY.” FEMME SHARKS SHOP AT ROSS, FOXY LADY, VALUE VILLAGE, THE HM $5 RACK, TORRID AND THE DOLLAR STORE , AND KNOW HOW TO SHOPLIFT WE CONCOCT BRILLIANT STRATEGIES TO LOOK FINE ON TEN DOLLARS OR LESS. WE’RE ONLY “INVISIBLE” IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO LOOK FOR US. WE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER RECOGNIZE THAT FEMMES ARE EACH OTHERS’ WEALTH HOS BEFORE BROS, ALWAYS! FEMME SOLIDARITY AND LOVE FOR EACH OTHER IS A REVOLUTIONARY FORCE WE BELIEVE IN GIRLS LOVING GIRLS, RESPECTING EACH OTHER’S BRILLIANCE NOT FIGHTING OVER BOIS OR BUTCHES NOT TRYING TO BE THE ALPHA FEMME WE’RE ANTI-DRAMA BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF COMMUNITIES THAT HEAL HURT, APOLOGIZE, LISTEN TO EACH OTHER AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT. WE BELIEVE IN BUILDING OUR QTPOC COMMUNITIES STRONG FEMME SHARKS WERE THERE WHEN FRIDA KAHLO HOOKED UP WITH HER GIRLFRIENDS WHEN JOAN NESTLE, CHRYSTOS, JEWELLE GOMEZ, ALEXIS DE VEUX, SYLVIA RIVERA, DOROTHY ALLISON, MINNIE BRUCE PRATT AND AMBER HOLLIBAUGH MADE QUEER FEMME HISTORY WHEN ZAPATISTA WOMEN HOOKED UP WHEN OUR COUSINS WERE MAKING OUT IN THE WOMEN’S SECTION OF THE MASJID WHEN OUR GRANDMAS AND QUEER AUNTIES SNUCK OUT AT NIGHT DIDN’T GET MARRIED TIL LATE- OR AT ALL HAS A BEST GIRLFRIEND AND STOOD UP FOR HER FEMME SHARKS WERE THERE. FEMME SHARKS ARE IN THE BODIES OF COUNTLESS SEX WORKERS, NEIGHBORDS AND LADIES WAITING FOR THE BUS AND IN THE LINEUP AT CENTURY 21. AT RIIS BEACH, FUNKASIA, LOVERGIRL NYC, BUTTA, MANGO, MANHATTAN’S, DESILICIOUS, AND BIBI! FEMME SHARKS LIVE ON THE REZ, IN CAPETOWN, NEWARK, OAKLAND!!!!!, THE SOUTH SIDE, NEW ORLEANS, COLOMBO, JUAREZ AND BROOKLYN SUBURBIA, THE FARM, AND LITTLE SMALL TOWNS. WE’RE IN FOSTER CARE, THE PSYCH WARD, JUVIE, AND ABOUT TO BE EVICTED. WE ARE SURVIVORS WHO ARE MORE THAN WHAT WE SURVIVED. WE ARE FIGURING OUT HOW TO HEAL AND HOW TO MAKE IT SO THAT NO ONE WILL HAVE TO SURVIVE SEXUAL VIOLENCE EVERY AGAIN. WE BELIEVE IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SYSTEM AS WE KNOW IT TO MAKE SOMETHING MUCH MO BETTA AND WE BELIEVE IN MAKING OUR OWN WAYS TO FIGHT AND RESIST ON THE DAILY. A FEMME SHARK IS ANY GIRL WHO IS TOUGH, HUNGRY, FIGHTS FOR HERSELF AND HER FAM AND IS WORKING ON BECOMCING THE KIND OF GIRL WHO FINDS GOD IN HERSELF AND LOVES HER FIERCELY WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE LOVE AND RAGE THE FEMME SHARKS”

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femme shark manifesto, written by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
http://www.myspace.com/leahlakshmi/blog/42274107

Lookit how cute these baby socks are that I’m knitting!

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:25:12 -0400

Lookit how cute these baby socks are that I’m knitting!

these are my exact thoughts every tiiiiiime

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:52:58 -0400

these are my exact thoughts every tiiiiiime

livelaughawesome: perksofbeingconsensual: liquorinthefront: Oh...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:24:47 -0400

livelaughawesome:

perksofbeingconsensual:

liquorinthefront:

Oh my god, this is ridiculously cute. It’s also nice to see the more boyish one preggers!

I can’t wait to start a family one day.

The cutest thing I’ve ever seen, seriously. Anyways, back to work.

this is so cute omfg

This makes me so happy! I can’t wait til Meagh gets preggers with my babies!

meredithgraves: this installation (visible from my roof)

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:38:00 -0400

meredithgraves:

this installation (visible from my roof)

It’s fucken hot out, people.

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:25:58 -0400

It’s fucken hot out, people.

On OKcupid

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:37:52 -0400

Me: I'm really underwhelmed by who I'm getting matched with on OKCupid.
Meagh: There are a lot of boring homosexuals in this world.

sixtyforty: BEING FEMME IS HAVING THE RESOLVE TO LOOK THE...

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:18:37 -0400

sixtyforty:

BEING FEMME IS HAVING THE RESOLVE TO LOOK THE STRAIGHT WORLD IN THE EYE AND SAY “YOUR UNSOLICITED OPINIONS ABOUT MY APPEARANCE ARE MEANINGLESS TO ME.”

BEING FEMME IS NEVER HAVING TO SECOND GUESS A LOOK BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU LOOK AMAZING BECAUSE YOU FEEL AMAZING AND THEY ARE ALMOST ALWAYS THE SAME THING.

BEING FEMME IS FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOUYOU CAN’T EVEN TOUCH THIS AND YOU KNOW IT AND IT DRIVES YOU CRAZY AND I’M NOT EVEN SORRY!

Gave myself a pedicure with bossyfemme’s nail art pen!...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:54:00 -0400

Gave myself a pedicure with bossyfemme’s nail art pen! (Economist themed pedi - it’s the stock market.)

Texts from my girlfriend who might be a geriatric.

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:32:54 -0400

Meagh: I will head home soon.
Meagh: Wait, no I won't. EUCHRE!

Unfucking my life

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:45:40 -0400

because my relationship is a plant, not a rock

a plant, not a rock

FINALLY.

Wed, 23 May 2012 21:50:36 -0400

FINALLY.

Photo

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:25:05 -0400

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Wed, 23 May 2012 10:42:46 -0400

TYPE YOUR NAME: matthew

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:13:40 -0400

TYPE YOUR NAME: matthew
TYPE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR ELBOW: matthew
TYPE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR EYES SHUT: matthew
TYPE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR CHIN: matthewe
SLAM YOUR FACE ON THE KEYBOARD: About 3 things i was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him, and i didnt know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood. And third, i was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

Meagh built me a terrarium and surprised me with it last night!...

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:57:00 -0400

Meagh built me a terrarium and surprised me with it last night! It is the cutest thing in the whole world! What a sweetheart.

Sometimes i wear a plastic bag at work.

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:06:00 -0400

Sometimes i wear a plastic bag at work.

"To think, a sweater, is made entirely from knots. My stomach could clothe a village."

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:40:46 -0400

““To think, a sweater, is made entirely from knots. My stomach could clothe a village.””

- Andrea Gibson (via hello-amber)

The dvds I have out from the library are Sex and the City, and The Black Power Mix Tapes

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:49:12 -0400

The complexities of #femmeproblems deepen.

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Fri, 11 May 2012 13:54:39 -0400