FAR OUT INTO

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)

“Touch is not external to, but constitutive of, the postural model of the body, whether it be the touch of external objects of the touch of other human beings.”

Gayle Salamon, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality

Ignacio Chacón, Lactation of Saint Pedro Nolasco

(Source: uglyrenaissancebabies)

“If 1.7 percent of the population is intersex, how absurd is it that the granting of marriage licenses is limited to a couple that can be defined as a male and a female!”

“It’s hard not to wonder if an identity that can so easily be erased qualifies as an identity at all.”

Joy Ladin

“I imagine dropping out of school and moving in with Efraim [a Chabad Jew] and his family to study Torah. I imagine that I become very good at Hebrew, and that I find many fathers, and brothers, and friends. I imagine that it finally feels very good to be a man. I imagine that because the men can see my kindness, they will make a very nice shidduch for me, a beautiful Jewish girl who will be my beautiful Jewish wife. And then I remember, all of a sudden, in one single moment: I cannot give her children. Not like they want me to. And at the end of this long night, this realization breaks my heart.”

Sasha T. Goldberg, a female-bodied Jew

“This was a rough revelation in and of itself: to, at five years old, recognize that the right answer might also be false, and the true answer might also be wrong, set me on a lifelong path of confusion.”

Jhos Singer

(Source: diamondmind)

“THIS ABNORMAL OBSESSION WITH WOMEN’S FACES AND BODIES HAS BECOME SO NORMAL THAT WE (I INCLUDE MYSELF AT TIMES—I ABSOLUTELY FALL FOR IT STILL) HAVE INTERNALIZED PATRIARCHY ALMOST SEAMLESSLY. WE ARE UNABLE AT TIMES TO IDENTIFY OURSELVES AS OUR OWN DENIGRATING ABUSERS, OR AS ABUSING OTHER GIRLS AND WOMEN.”

ASHLEY JUDD (via human-activities)