Some days are just TOO nice, you feel me? It’s like, save some for the other days.
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“When the LGBT community is not united with social movements that address the issues facing the most marginalized LGBT people, with racial justice proponents (proportionally more people of color identify as queer), with those fighting against systemic poverty, with pacifists, are we really making any progress? Or has the LGBT movement been kidnapped by power elites advocating for their own interests? The dilemma is reminiscent of an image circling some corners of the web: A white gay male couple superimposed over the Human Rights Campaign red equality symbol that dominated Facebook during the gay marriage Supreme Court hearings.”
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Human Rights Campaign: Largest LGBT Donors Are Drone Manufacturers
“WE WANT EQUALITY! WE WANT JUSTICE!” etc, etc.
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Someone just linked me this on facebook AHAHAHA
#LivingForThis
year you were born?
gender?
where you lived between 0-18yrs? (city, state, or region)
where do you live now? (city, state, or region)are these words pronounced the same? (yes/no)
1. cot / caught
2. Don / dawn
3. full / fool
4. pen / pinkare these sentences acceptable in casual, everyday speech?
5. Do you want to come with?
6. I’m done my homework.
7. Gas is really expensive anymore.
8. The table needs cleaned.omg someone please fill this out for me i’m dying over here it’s for my linguistics class if you do it i’ll love you forever
1992, male, Colorado, Colorado
1. rhyme
2. rhyme
3. not rhyme
4. not rhyme
5. acceptable
6. unacceptable
7. unacceptable
8. acceptable
1985, guy, west Michigan, east Michigan
1. no 2. no 3. no. 4. no
5. yes 6. no 7. my family says it but it still sounds a little off to me 8. yes
this is my favorite video of the year so far
(Source: youtube.com, via beyonceburgers)
Tomorrow’s cover today: now especially, the world needs to hold fast to Margaret Thatcher’s principles.
the economist was hacked
Accidental Racist - The White Whiniest song ever recorded.
omg
Great thanks to the RiseUpToHIV campaign for building visibility, awareness and embracing greater standards for dispelling stereotypes and sharing knowledge about HIV+ people in the world. Proudly still here.
Coming Out Again
Joseph R. Varisco | January 2013
About a month ago I found out that I am HIV positive.
I found that in speaking this news I was liberated and empowered from the stress and paranoia of imagining what it might be to hide a status. I honor that this is a privilege afforded to me by many factors:
I am surrounded by a brilliant community, family and friends some of which now join me in this next chapter of health and medical education. I have access to some of the top medical care in the country via Howard Brown. I have a partner who is brilliant, strong and wonderful and a sister who keeps me firmly rooted and safe.
The other night I was with my bio-fam and announced this change in my life to them. This was one of my greatest fears. I worried about children being pulled away and angry father/weeping mother, but I was so sorely mistaken. My news was met with surprising kindness and patience. So often I forget. They remind me.
They remind me why I see the world the way I do. The potential of community. The power of surrendering. Surrendering to a lack of understanding and to the reality of privilege. They remind me of the sacred. They remind me of bodies in a space wanting to thrive, to love, to be safe, to dream and make mistakes and disentangle the way the world views us so we can see ourselves the way we want to, need to, love to.
They remind me of the silence that we hold for each other when we cannot speak, do not know how to speak, can speak no more and the beauty that lives there. They remind me of how our bodies map out our pain, remember it, emboldened on our bones so that we do not need to summon it everyday. It will be there to remind us of who we are, what we’ve lost and why we fight.
I have made mistakes. I have lost and neglected people, places, projects, etc. I know forgiveness. It is a daily practice to ourselves, for ourselves. We will heal together. I hold this perspective in knowing that it is not the only way to see. I hold it because that is what calls to me. I honor what others see, how I cannot see. We make one another stronger for this. We are not alone anymore. Now lets make sure others know that too.
Reach out. Build relationships. Take risks and educate. Hold people accountable at home, in the office, at the bar, in public spaces. Hold people.
I will try harder. I will be better. I will remember.
Joseph R. Varisco is a documentarian and producer utilizing creative collaborations as a means of building community relationships and deconstructing boundaries. Since 2009 Varisco has invested in Chicago’s creative queer communities as the founder of JRV MAJESTY Productions, Creative Director of Chicago IRL, Artistic Assistant to the Youth Empowerment Performance Project and host and curator of monthly performance event LEX·IC·A. His work is featured in Chicago History Museum’s Out In Chicago Exhibit, his Queer Culture & Social Media Study project was presented at the Queer Horizons Conference and WTUL New Orleans Broadcasts the Future. As a teaching artist with About Face Youth Theatre, intern with the Broadway Youth Center and Night Ministry his work frames unconventional social justice practices.
http://www.facebook.com/jrvmajestyproductions
http://jrvmajesty.tumblr.com/
http://www.soundcloud.com/joevarisco
don’t stop writing.
