“It is not that the potential of self-education has yet to demonstrated, but that its success has to be suppressed in the service of compulsory education’s true purpose: The cultivation of thoughtless acquiescence and conspicuous consumption defines our culture and fuels the economy. Thus, the education system’s ultimate goal isn’t to impart knowledge or to inspire love thereof, but to train young people not to think much at all, because that’s what makes them good employees and good consumers.”
John Taylor Gatto, quoted by Astra Taylor in “The Unschooled Life” (via heteroglossia)
May182013
May162013
the struggle
don’t lie, you searched this.
(Source: gorgeousfalcon)
May122013
While writing my paper on queer selfies, I found out that Tumblr may be valued at $1 billion dollars and I got to thinking:
What creates this value? Us. Therefore: WE SHOULD BE PAID TO BLOG.
BLOGGING IS LABOR. SELFIES ARE LABOR. FANDOM IS LABOR. REBLOGGING IS LABOR.
May82013
cmov:
it is so frustrating that this is just sitting around, because of legal issues. wesleyan university press originally pushed for it, with joanna’s interest, but then later dropped it, probably due to how huge this volume is (900 pages) and the estate complications following her death. i’m really hoping it gets picked up by small beer or some other press.
hey topside will you publish the collected stories of joanna russ please
Author of The Female Man and How to Suppress Women’s Writing, an excellent piece of feminist satire. I hate when books are trapped due to legal bullshit.
May32013
Agnes Martin, Stars, 1963, ink & watercolor, 12 x 12 in.
WHY IS AGNES MARTIN SO SOOTHING? Can I get funding to study this? It would involve looking at lots of Agnes Martin pictures and attaching one of those fancy science colanders to my head.
5PM
identity // dichotomy
soft butch // hard femme
boy witch // lady wizard
ferocious fairy // gentle goth
boi in a dress // grrrl in a suit
limp wrist // raised fist
Really aspiring to rock that right-hand side. Hard femme is tough, but I think I’ve got lady wizard and gentle goth in the bag.
April292013
From, I don’t know, maybe an US Weekly?
April242013
Valerie Solanis Event - Canceled
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
REAL LIVE EXAMPLE of interaction between trans and genderqueer folks and cis folks over a contentious figure’s contentious manifesto.
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