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Kyle Montgomery.

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A Living Painting Made of Real Flowers at the London’s National Gallery

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So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”

And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume

so the dwarf goes back home, enraged

and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”

and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever  it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth

and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous

and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”

but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are

because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven

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The oil industry needs to #RezpectOurWater and stop building the Dakota Access Pipeline

I am 13 years old, and I’ve spent my whole life drinking and fishing from the Missouri River in North Dakota. As members of the Standing Rock Tribe, my family has lived here for generations. Today our lives on the reservation are still defined by the river.

But now an oil company wants to build a pipeline that will cross the river a mile away from our reservation, carrying 570,000 barrels of crude oil across each day. We’re terrified that it could leak into our water, but the company doesn’t seem to care. We, the youth of the Standing Rock Tribe, refuse to let them risk our water and lives without a fight. So far over 130,000 people have signed our petition.

— Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer for Identities Mic

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Watch: The Wonder Years made Danica McKellar famous, math made her mark on the world permanent.

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Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People Episode 4 is here, with the legendary Kate Bornstein. (link)

I first read Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw when it was assigned to me in college. It was one of those books that you end up devouring in one night, not caring that you’re blowing off a term paper. For the first time, I was reading a gender theorist whose words made the world make a little more sense. And whose ideas helped me make sense of myself. Her complex ideas weren’t masquerading in complex academic language; she told it exactly as it needed to be said. Last week I got to interview her for “Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People.” We talked about Caitlyn Jenner, Doctor Who, tardises, and more. We sat on tandem toilets and made poop jokes. (The poop jokes were cut.) But what remains is an interview I’m incredibly proud of. Thanks, Auntie Kate. Love you.

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The problem with postmodernism is two fold.

1. It fails to direct critique towards any given aim. Postmodernism critiques with an ability unrivaled in other philosophical traditions, but loses sight of the entire point of criticism, which is not its own end but is rather to avoid reifying ideological categories which uphold material and structural systems of violence. Moreover, critique cannot be the end of the line. After we critique modernism, empiricism or univeralism, we cannot assume that we then have moved beyond them as the ideal theorists do, rather we need to recognize our situatedness within an imminent historical context which allows us to repair the flaws of those systems of thought. Deconstruction should not be a process of destroying, but of internally reconciling illusory binaries and contradictions.

2. It easily loses any sort of normative ground for delineating a political space or even a space for resistance. Derrida is correct that the internal is the external, yet he is silent on the profound political implication. He is correct that the logocentric model is eurocentric, yet nowhere in Of Grammatology does this evolve into a tool for resisting coloniality. It remains in the purely formal and ideal realm, never brought into the material space of politics.

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every night as i fumble to plug my phone into its charger i think of how bbc sherlock holmes would classify me as an alcoholic

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I’m not disputing that native folks (also across the entire continents of North/South America) weren’t peaceful or weren’t violent at times. Folks also had conflict, not like any one group ever had no conflicts. It’s life! 

Also who the hell did the majority of the paintings? Western European folks, with the context of it being propaganda to demonize the native peoples they came into contact with, so it was easier on their souls to colonize them. If the images were made by native peoples, who knows the context- the people it came from know it. 

But okay, yeah sure, let’s go with folks using the images as whatever they believe in to (re)inforce this violent image of native peoples. 

yikes. 

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therock After we feed her, Jasmine just loves looking at daddy’s tattoos. I think it helps her digest😂. Can’t wait to one day explain to her what all this means. Chat about her cultures (Samoan, Armenian, African American and Italian). And while these symbols may appear to be primitive, unsophisticated and crude - they’re extremely sacred, thousands of years old and very powerful. My mana (strength). Ironically enough the symbol she’s fixated on is our ATUA (our God) protected by the small building blocks of my life and then by shark teeth. Yuuuuup, we gonna have some good daddy/daughter chats. Until then she’ll continue to use daddy’s tattoos as a place to scratch, drool and spit up. #Tatua #PolyCulture #FaaSamoa #Respect #SpitUpOnDaddy #Yay

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Here to help y'all gorgeous children

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Decades old slash pairings are still good slash pairings.

i don’t know what this is

human courtship rituals make no sense.

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Star Trek Advent Calendar: Day 7 – favorite character who isn’t a member of starfleet 

Naomi Wildman

Obviously Naomi. She’s smart, curious and insistent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Her following Seven around is the cutest thing ever, her reactions in Once Upon a Time are spot on and her presenting a plan to rescue Seven in Dark Frontier really shows not only her abilities to think about complicated matters but also that she can be very adamant when it comes to something or someone that is really important to her. 

Oh, and one of my favourite scenes ever is in Bliss, when she touches the forcefield and goes “forcefield?!?”

@face–the–strange made a gif set of that scene. So cute! 

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Update from Tan Jiu, translated by Yaoi-BLCD. IF YOU USE OUR TRANSLATIONS YOU MUST CREDIT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR!!!!!! (TAN JIU). DO NOT USE FOR ANY PRINT/ PUBLICATIONS/ FOR PROFIT REASONS WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR!!!!!!!!!!!

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Watch: Michelle Obama sends Native American students a crucial message in graduation speech.

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