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Remember when we beat Great Britain in the revolutionary war lololololol losers

3 letters

NHS

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Talking about sex with British friends.

Girl: I think she should drop to her knees and do the naughties with you....

Me: Cunnilingus?

Girl: .... if you'd like ...

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(image: a person in a wheelchair with a breathing mask on making the “devil horns” with their hands at a trans march)

me at the trans march in seattle, 2013 photo by nate gowdy

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My best friend Josephine and the wonderful Max Zachs have a sweet, real music video out for TGDOR! By Zachs & Krieg, an anthem for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2013 Purchase Information Itunes: http://tinyurl.com/pj69mkv  Amazon Mp3: http://tinyurl.com/oe3hzg8

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Lesbian heart-ache

Good weekend. Good club night Friday and epic sex-ed gig yesterday Being around the hottest, smartest most gorgeous person thats come in to my life for a very long time. Taking baby steps towards less gender theory more epic kissing stroking buzz-cut. Feeeelings

Tell it like it is Ani:

Well fuck you and your untouchable face, fuck you for existing in the first place.... 

-Ani Di Franco, Untouchable face.

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Wotever Stockholm: Crème de la Femme. September, 27. Flyer by yours truly. Info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/216284771867697/

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Sheep teaches young bull to head butt, Terceira Azores - YouTube

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Me and all the other lovely queers at Wotever Stockholm Pride night

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Thus spoke P-m-d-ustra

Girl: How are you feeling?

Me: Well, if I was a bit essentialistic I would be like "My womb is crying"

Girl: Eeeh..okay

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The P to the M to the double D

Oh my gawd the feels! PMDD, youre the worst thing that ever happened to me. And whoever wants to be all like "social construct" can just have a piece of my dysphoric middle finger. Oh yeah!

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Post Pride

Oh my God I feel so old... feel like I am hungover from a week of seminars, parties, performances, masses. All in all blessed but problematic week - as always.

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Ableism must be included in our analysis of oppression and in our conversations about violence, responses to violence and ending violence. Ableism cuts across all of our movements because ableism dictates how bodies should function against a mythical norm—an able-bodied standard of white supremacy, heterosexism, sexism, economic exploitation, moral/religious beliefs, age and ability. Ableism set the stage for queer and trans people to be institutionalized as mentally disabled; for communities of color to be understood as less capable, smart and intelligent, therefore “naturally” fit for slave labor; for women’s bodies to be used to produce children, when, where and how men needed them; for people with disabilities to be seen as “disposable” in a capitalist and exploitative culture because we are not seen as “productive;” for immigrants to be thought of as a “disease” that we must “cure” because it is “weakening” our country; for violence, cycles of poverty, lack of resources and war to be used as systematic tools to construct disability in communities and entire countries.

Mia Mingus, “Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability" (via disabilityhistory)

i reblogged this quote already but i wanted to reblog this again to really encourage folks to read all of Mia’s speech from which this quote is pulled from - if not to let her poignant words settle into our bodies but to also get the full context. Mia shared this speech at the Femmes of Color Symposium in 2012 in Oakland, CA. in her speech she talks about how important it is to challenge ableism in order to create a femmeness that is not exclusionary. and while she does not politically identify as a femme of color, she has had that experience and it has been molded by her being a disabled woman of color.

it was important for me to reblog this again to acknowledge that while i resonate deeply with this quote as a queer and gender non conforming disabled person of color, my masculinity is conducive to desirability in our society at large and the movement spaces we seek to create for liberation, decolonization, etc. 

(via tranqualizer)

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Boredom

I am so f-ing bored....

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WOTEVER STOCKHOLM  - HAIR! Free alternative queer Pride Night in Stockholm. August 2nd 2013  20-01 Flyer by yours truly

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My first ever...

...citation in a scientific report! They have quoted one of my definitions on "crip" and also my BA-thesis and the essay/paper/study I just presented. It's heart-racing to see footnotes being "See: Bylund, 2012" and "Bylund, 2013" and my name and the titles of my work in the list of references! Academia I conquered you!  

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Writing on dating/ internalized ableism : Sample.

"The sex-positive nature of things. The shame in admitting one doesn’t think anyone would want oneself. The lack of power that it gives.

Don’t pity me, obey me."