“There is something very wrong with what we have made ourselves. We have become a civilization based on work — not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself. We have come to believe that men and women who do not work harder than they wish at jobs they do not particularly enjoy are bad people unworthy of love, care, or assistance from their communities. It is as if we have collectively acquiesced to our own enslavement. The main political reaction to our awareness that half the time we are engaged in utterly meaningless or even counterproductive activities — usually under the orders of a person we dislike — is to rankle with resentment over the fact there might be others out there who are not in the same trap. As a result, hatred, resentment, and suspicion have become the glue that holds society together. This is a disastrous state of affairs.”
i think the hip new trans thing to do should be choosing as inconvenient a name as possible. like, you have a sibling of the same gender? choose their name. choose ur parent’s name. choose ur pet’s name. choose ur best friend’s name. make ur name a common noun (that isn’t already a name like lane is). call urself “chair.” open the dictionary to a random page and point, now That’s ur name. have a different name for each day of the week
Good morning I’m Swim and I’m here to be fucking nuisance
whats up my name is nineteen i’m nineteen years old and i never learned how to read
this is a northern cardinal displaying bilateral gynandromorphism – the left side of the bird’s body is male, and the right side is female. unlike intersex individuals, the bird is entirely ‘split’ between male and female. likely due to its strange appearance, the bird was never observed with a mate or producing vocalizations, and was not often seen being social with other cardinals. despite how rare bilateral gynandromorphism is, one other case was recorded in a northern cardinal in 1969 – with the male and female sides reversed.
Birds are incredibly fascinating! Only tangentially related, a female bird uses one ovary until that ovary is damaged, which is abnormal. Her second ovary then develops and more closely resembles a teste in structure.
“I felt like one of two collectors’ items: a sexy fashionable jungle bunny Barbie for purely private pleasures or for parading about in public, or a sexy enigmatic Angela Davis Barbie dispensing knowledge on command. Sometimes I felt like both at the same time: like a fuckable encyclopedia, ready to be opened and consumed at will. I often felt like an accessory: a “treasured” one, but something nonetheless displayable and dispensable.
White people who practice so-called “ethical” non-monogamy but still treat black women like trading cards are merely taking advantage of the perceived freedom these relationships afford them. Rather than valuing black women as whole and complex beings, we are reduced to the perceived liberal social capital of proximity to blackness. We become a kind of superficial accomplishment to many, a status symbol that encourages our white partners to parade us around like prized poodles to show just how “open-minded” they are. Being in a non-monogamous relationship with a black woman is not the same as treating said partner with the care, honesty, and respect they deserve. A notch in the proverbial belt is not a partner. Neither capitalism nor conservative relationship conventions are undermined when blackness, racialized “otherness,” remains a commodity (there is something a bit troublesome about fucking your oppressor).”
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