After all, it was made in their image. This year I think the feel-good straight folk were the primary constituents.
Wealth Culture has made poor folks feel like thieves for getting what they deserve. I mean that seriously. In all situations, when I see people applying for a job they aren’t qualified for, pushing for a raise, leaving a job where they are treated badly, travelling for the hell of it, starting their own nonprofit…
Holy fuck it used to be that the internet was where you could find other wierdos like you! Lots of queerdos, and interesting straight weirdos. You could get lost in troll humor, and hacker sensibility to everything (read: a digital diy culture about rejecting the mainstream). Now every fucking site has instructions on how to…
I don’t know if straight people realize what queers commonly know about them. After all, we all were raised to be straight. So we know them intimately inside out. The difference is, we had to break out of the societal rules that they are still bound by. (note, I think straight people can be queer,…
I don’t know if straight people realize what queers commonly know about them. After all, we all were raised to be straight. So we know them intimately inside out. The difference is, we had to break out of the societal rules that they are still bound by. How does it feel, to know that we…
You just have to work it out! But seriously. It kind of is, right? I mean, we develop strongly toward a certain gender type and expression and etc. But damn you can get good at something else. Plus it’s often synonymous with power. Which isn’t so good.
Wow, transmasculine folks on T really do have this increased visibility. I mean, think about it. When was the last time you saw publicly speaking a transmasculine-identified person who wasn’t on T? It’s SO RARE. TransMasc folks might not realize it, and most almost certainly didn’t ask for it, but they realllllly do get a…
I’m struggling in my classroom – but not in the way most teachers describe struggling in the classroom. I’m struggling because I feel like I can’t be authentic. I’m presenting a false persona. I can’t be myself – I have to blockade an identity that has become interwoven with my language, movement, conscious and subconscious.…
They cross you off in their brain as deserving of a promotion or advancement. You’re used to no money, so you’re not a threat to leaving! Don’t try this unless you’re rich, then go ahead and try. Or “Upper middle class” aka rich.
Educators in low-income “opportunity gap” contexts talk all the time about making a real change. Fuck, do they know that real change in this context means complete destruction of the racist/classist/forces that be that hold kids to an outcome those on top need? As in, if you want to make real change, you are going…
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