https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huffam4qf4Y I’m just going to go out on a limb here: You or Someone You Know by Worriers is my favorite record of the year. Such a perfect punk/power pop record – I listen to it when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m sitting in the sun on my balcony, when I have to …
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Onsind – ImmatureFeminist punks ONSIND released Immature, the first single off their upcoming album We Wilt, We Bloom. It’s about, like, millennial dissent and stuff. (All proceeds from the bandcamp single go to Salvage Collective, supporting women (cis, trans & intersex), trans & non-binary survivors & activists)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Big Beautiful Day is the first single off PWR BTTM’s second album Pageant (out May 12, 2017) It’s exactly the kind of guitar & glitter & self-empowerment anthem I love from them. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
ALL THE DEAD BOYS LOOK LIKE ME
A poem by Latinx poet Loma, which they wrote in the aftermath of Orlando, expressing grief, outrage, frustration and love in the queer poc community. The piece connects the personal and the political, and puts the Orlando attack in context of the other forms of violence (recent and historic) that target the community.ALL THE DEAD …
You don’t have to get normal to become legitimate. Judith Butler in an interview with Regina Michalik (LOLApress) in 2001.
Women are supposed to be the ones on the balcony, not the ones down below professing their love. We don’t think the female romantic is romantic. We think she is a predator. We think she is desperate, unstable—Fatal Attraction, the cougar, the spinster, the troublemaker. But deep emotion in this age is a radical act. …
First, there is no naturalized gendered body. All of our bodies are modified with regard to gender, whether we seek out surgery or take hormones or not. All of us engage in or have engaged in processes of gender body modification (diets, shaving, exercise regimes, clothing choices, vitamins, birth control. etc) that alter our bodies, …
strangeasanjles: mariekpascual: Mark Aguhar (1987-2012) Artist Statement (from markaguhar.com): “Mark Aguhar’s work is a continuous exploration of queer expression and what it means to have grown up gay on the internet. Aguhar collects visual artifacts from queer online communities and uses them in their work to define and redefine who they are and what their …
“Dear Straight People” by poet, lyricist, and educator Denice Frohman, 2013 Women of the World Poetry Champion. This video went around the Internet (I got it from buzzfeed) but it’s too good not to have on this blog. (h/t to P. / video by Button Poetry)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Mary Lambert is probably (definitely) best known for writing and singing the hook for Macklemore & Lewis’ “Same Love.” She is breathtaking on her own. This KEXP session includes the song the developed out of the Same Love hook, and the entire thing is so charming, so wonderful, so heartwarmbreaking, including the spoken word piece at …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 