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updated book list📚 ⋆⑅˚₊ ★彡˖ ִֶ

Here's some books i'm reading for my first research project, if you have any book recommendations on palestine and israel please recommend them to me so i can use them in my research!

Hopefully I can compile information and spread light and awareness on this topic well <3 ,although I want to go into depth so it might take me awhile to do ૮₍ " ˶˃_˂˶ ₎ა

I'll probably work on this project for the next few months so please look forward to it~!!

Some books aren’t available at my public library & in store at the Barnes&Noble near me sadly.

books that weren’t available:

(Talented Palestinian Musician^ )

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Queer ecology is the application of queer theory to nature. It seeks to challenge dominant systems of heteronormativity, cisnormativity, colonialism, and capitalism and show how these destructive ideologies distance us from our natural environment. How we understand the natural world, and our place in it, has been heavily influenced by media that positions nature as pure and bountiful. The moniker “Mother Nature” emphasizes its life-giving and nurturing qualities. But nature also rages and destroys and fornicates as if life depended on it which, of course, it does.

Some scholars argue that heteropatriarchy is fueling environmental collapse. In contrast, queer communities of care and support, built by people who are ostracized from their families, better reflect the symbiotic relationships in nature. Our planet is home to immense diversity in terms of both sex and gender. This should inspire us to expand our understanding of human identity, sexuality, pleasure, and desire.

Consider the New Mexico whiptail lizard, which reproduces through parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction that allows the female to create a viable offspring without a mate. Consider, too, the “birds and the bees” talk: It’s the clichéd story parents use to explain how babies are made, though as Micha Rahder notes, it’s an insult to birds and bees to have their ravenous sex lives reduced to a heteronormative fable. Both are infinitely more sexually adventurous than (most) humans.

The natural world is much wilder than we can ever imagine. We have so much to learn.

Clare Egan’s reading list on queer ecology is essential reading. 

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Are you a Gold Star lesbian? (Just in case you don't know what it means, a Gold Star lesbian is a lesbian that has never had the sex with a guy and would never have any intentions of ever doing so)

Pretty sure you’re a bot/spam account because of how inappropriate this question is. In case you’re not, the concept of gold star lesbians is fucked up because it has folks believing that knowing your sexuality from a certain age makes you more valid in that sexuality.

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14.12.2019 | There’s nothing like spending 2 days -while you should actually be studying- in a different city with some friends and reading a really nice book. ☕️

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cannabis art

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Day 34/100: What’s in my bag?

It’s my last finals season in college, and today I bought weed at the library. Currently writing a research paper on Islamism, feminism, Africa, and the UN AND MY HEAD IS SPINNING

Good luck on finals🌟

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Day 33/100

I haven’t been posting bc I’m stressed.edu

Tomorrow’s my birthday and I am preparing a paper and presentation for my political science class on war. I’m also trying to finalize my personal statement, so I can send it to my law school recommenders and have the peace of mind of a nearly complete application as a bday gift to myself (pending October LSAT).

Wish me luck!

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Day 32/100 (left in my drafts for a month oops)

Finished my first week of school today! I’ll try to be better about posting more often.

It was super windy at marching band when we were trying to sight read, and me and my friends wound up all donating a shoe to keep our music in place. It’s harder to mark time with one shoe, so shortly after this photo, no one on the cymbal line was wearing shoes.

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Uhm yeah? XD

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Tag Game

Thank you to @ultrachippednailpolish for the tag! This is my first one, too, so here goes?

Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 21 blogs

Nickname: Bear

Star Sign: Libra

Height: 5’4”

Last film I watched: Evan Almighty

Favorite Musician: Stevie Nicks

Song stuck in my head: Voulez-Vous by ABBA

Other blogs: my queer content and photography blog @kindapined

Do I get asks: occasionally, but my blog is still small

Blogs following: 385

What I’m wearing: gym clothes (I’m in the middle of band camp)

Dream job: I can’t narrow it down to just one! But I’ll be pursuing law after undergrad.

Dream Trip: tour of Europe with my love

Play any instruments: do CRASH CYMBALS count? Because I’m amazing at them!

Languages: English, some Latin

Favorite food: chicken and rice

Favorite song: Apartment by Young the Giant

Random fact: I smoke weed to study

Tagging: @s0ft-pages @studyaesthetic @studies-and-sunsets @korastudies @studystudystudyblr @winniestudyblr @paper-chase @polcry @thestudyharder @uialawblr @lawschoolstudying @lawyerd @irstudyblr  @erikastudydiary @elainestudy @jmrstudies @maryplethora @aestheticstudyign @not-now-im-studying @nightlystudying @gemsttudiess​

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Did a thing I was procrastinating today, worked hard physically, and now I’m ripping bong✌🏼

reblog if you’re an active studyblr, i’m looking for new friends!!!

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Day 31/100

So today is the first day of band camp, and I was up all night writing a paper from last semester. On the bright side, I finished it! It’s over! I will NEVER procrastinate something that badly again!

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Marking my planner

Two more weeks of gender!

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Day 30/100

Omfg the amount of time it took me to find a dealer who was in town is ridiculous. Today I was finally victorious. Soon I shall be high. Time to get this paper done!

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I study political science and prep for the LSAT, and I soon as a find a h*cking dealer, I’m doing it while high :)

yet another “reblog if you’re a studyblr” post

I’m unfollowing a bunch of inactive studyblrs and my dash is dead, so please reblog this if you’re a studyblr and I’ll try to mass follow everyone who reblogs this!

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Burned my last bowl of stems a few days ago :(

I’d looove to be stoned at band camp this weekend

if you don’t currently have any weed, you’re so fucking brave, hang in there, i’ve been where you are and i promise it gets better, you’ll have weed again soon, i’m blessing you all with that energy