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Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory

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So why do we tend to consider crazy as disconnected from the culture and social structure? Because precisely we do not want to examine the culture and social structure that are the horizon of possibility of certain acts, either to deflect moral responsibility (as Tea Party people did after the Gifford shooting) or to avoid examining the social conditions out of which such acts occur especially if they put into question certain institutions (the health care system) or dominant ideologies (the gun culture). It works better for dominant structures and ideologies and the groups that sustain and reproduce them if we individualize such acts (one crazy person) and pathologize them, putting them squarely in the frame of medicalization of deviance, as pathologies to be treated by the appropriate professionals. In all cases, the system stays intact.

The Social Construction of Mental Illness – Zombie Edition (via sociolab)

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Combichrist - Bottle of Pain (by Faindtsender)

I like the band, but didn’t know this song until now. Straight to favorites!

It is grossly hypocritical to be in favor of gay marriage and yet to be opposed to polyamory

Is it Bigotry to Advocate Gay Marriage but Oppose Polyamory?

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Wanda Sykes, lesbian comedian, comes out as black.

რას იტყვის სამღვდელოება? (by levanrami)

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“you’re d**ks for overpainting “

see on of that “works” what was there

so cut ^_^

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Feminism F.A.Q.s: What is Slut-Shaming? (by jarrahpenguin)

Ontologically, society is nothing else but change, movement and transformation, action and interaction, construction and reconstruction, constant becoming rather than stable being.

Piotr Sztompka (the Trauma of Social Change. A Case of Postcommunist Societies. In Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. P. 155)

Although I do not want to disqualify those who desire to see LGBTQ equality within their faith based communities, buying into a heternormative ideal of what traditional marriage should look like needs to result in LGBTQ individuals asking why marriage should be performed in sacred spaces in the first place The normative traditions that have often defined marriage have also served as shackles keeping LGBTQ couples in the mindset that to achieve fully marriage equality with their heterosexual counterparts is to fully immerse themselves within the same traditions and practices.

“If You Allow Gay Marriage…” by John Erickson « Feminism and Religion

Good point (though quoted very selectively, obviously)

grandejouissance:

This is a really wonderful lecture by Yale professor Paul Fry on queer theory and gender performativity which, besides providing ample food for thought, reminded me why I can never explain to myself — let alone to others — the basic suppositions and implications of queer theory in under 15 minutes or within a few paragraphs. In it he

explores the work of Judith Butler in relation to Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Differences in terminology and methods are discussed, including Butler’s emphasis on performance and Foucault’s reliance on formulations such as “power-knowledge” and “the deployment of alliance.” Butler’s fixation with ontology is explored with reference to Levi-Strauss’s concept of the raw and the cooked. At the lecture’s conclusion, Butler’s interrogation of identity politics is compared with that of postcolonial and African-American theorists.

The distribution of time/topics is as follows:

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction to Judith Butler: What Is Sexuality?
03:46 - Chapter 2. Foucault and the Deployment of Alliance
14:53 - Chapter 3. Performing Gender
24:10 - Chapter 4. The Political Agenda of Gender Theory
33:39 - Chapter 5. Foucault’s Method, Butler’s Method
46:20 - Chapter 6. The Gendering of Reading