One of Toronto’s few gay/queer magazines is officially shutting down. This is extremely sad, because as the community mainstreams, our own private corners of the world begin to disappear. Here’s an excerpt from a great article that was published in FAB, and garnered some deep respect from me. Extremely proud that this came from Toronto!
Not only is this “study” completely ridiculous, some people are just a tad too sensitive… and their racism is showing.
Click the quote to read the article.
Oh my lord. This is fucking BRILLIANT.
I am DYING from laughter!!! From laughter and GENIUS!
yourveryfleshshallbeagreatpoem:
I just stumbled across this. It makes me want to vomit.
This is the most repulsive thing in the world. I know racism exists, I’ve been on the receiving end of it for quite some time—but seriously? The way these assholes go on about feeling “empowered” is just disgusting.
Article on the politics of desire in the gay community.
Sam Sommers, Huffington Post (via notime4yourshit)
(Source: maxine-shaw, via notime4yourshit)
But this is what all too many people do when plausible allegations of racial bias come up. They’ll admit that racism still exists, yet automatically hold fast to the argument that it couldn’t have happened in the particular instance, even in the face of evidence that suggests there’s a real discussion to be had.
It’s as if many Americans are able to recognize racial bias in the abstract, but never willing to see it in the here and now: Hypothetically? Racism is still a problem. Practically? It didn’t happen this time. And so they end up clinging to the belief that it’s never about race.
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“Why Are You Looking At Me That Way?”
“Anders Behring Breivik, Mohammed Atta and Baruch Goldstein are all cut from the same rotten cloth. Anwar Al-Awlaki and Glenn Beck - the peddlers of the faith - all share the same core afflictions.
These men are insecure, violently inclined, and illiberal. The outside world scares them. They hate homosexuals and strong women. For them, difference is a source of insecurity. Their values are militarism, conformism, chauvinism and jingoism. Worst of all they seek to pressure us into compliance while they work frantically to destroy themselves - and the rest of us with them.”
A black teenage male was shot down by police officers in SF over a bus transfer.
Click HERE for the article.
“As I watch another Black man – shot down in the street like a mad dog by occupation forces paid for by our tax dollars and 456 years of dehumanization – I read accounts of the incident and wonder: What is this young man’s name? Who are his people: family, friends etc.? Does he have a mother? Does she know her son is dead? (Peace be upon him.) I’m the mother of four Black men! I’m grandma to nine grandsons. I’m great-grandma to one. I’ve seen this scene too many times in my 70 years! I wonder: WHO WILL MOURN for this young Black Man? WHO WILL MOURN for all those yet to fall at the hands of our ever-open enemies? Who will mourn for us all?”
- Sister Halimah Allah
Seth Chalmer and his father, quoted in “My father’s lectures” (via abigq)
YES.
(via lizardwalk)
(via yajnaseni)
I came home from middle school and mentioned that one of the few black kids on the playground got picked on that day. I’d even heard the N-word for the first time. Dad asked if I told a teacher, and I said no, I was just glad they weren’t picking on me.
“No,” he said. And his voice was soft; this was different. “Do your homework” this was not. “Whenever you hear ‘nigger,’ hear ‘dirty Jew.’ Whenever you hear ‘spic,’ or ‘fag,’ or ‘dyke,’ hear ‘dirty Jew.’ And take it personally.”
"At some point, I’ll get there. I will one day be totally cool with the whole “race” thing. The anger will subside, and I will learn to love. It’s not that I have problems with my own ethnicity. Rather, it’s that I have problems with the way my ethnicity is used as a way into me.
I sometimes wonder if I’m being overtly picky by refusing to give rice queens a chance. My main argument against rice queens is that they see me primarily as an Asian, and then associate a bunch of horribly demeaning stereotypes based on that.
“So are you smooth all over?”
Fuck you.
“Wait, so then what are you?”
Put a little more effort.
“What do you mean you don’t like getting fucked? Aren’t you all bottoms?”
[furiouskickinthegroin]
My extremely intelligent friend once said to me: “Isn’t it sort of the same thing? Guys like me because I have blonde hair and blue eyes.”
It was then that I knew that he probably wouldn’t ever be able to understand how I feel about this particular issue. I was slightly shocked and still sort of am. I love him to bits, but it tears me up inside a little that we can’t connect on this issue. It sort of left me, hopeless.
When I was 19, I was fooling around with a guy in my room. In the middle of our heated sex frenzy, he started talking dirty. It was hot until this happened:
“Yeah, you like that China boy?”
At the time I didn’t really get it. I didn’t understand the underlying racism of the entire moment—the way in which he said it, the physical position that we were in and the way in which it affected the power dynamic in the room. To this day, I wish that I had bitten his dick off.
What frustrates me even more is when other POC’s comment on my Asian-ness, with even more troubling comments like: “I only date white guys, but you’re cute for an Asian.” At which point I grab my drink, turn and walk away.
Some friends keep telling me to give Rice Queens a chance, that they are nice guys who happen to find Asians attractive. I agree with this, but something still doesn’t sit right with me inside, and I don’t know what it is.
Thoughts?
