My name is Jen

dildosandglitter: rabidcentipede: shmegeh: I found this card...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:01:32 -0700

rabidcentipede:

shmegeh:

I found this card at the pharmacy today and it was good.

can I send this to like… most people in my life?

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:59:10 -0700

Photo

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:36:43 -0700

janetmock: Read this Village Voice cover story this morning and...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:19:15 -0700

janetmock:

Read this Village Voice cover story this morning and got my life + became a fan. Specifically here:

“Quattlebaum says he hates … the field of queer studies along with it. ‘I have a lot of problems with the academic queer community because it’s a community that exists completely removed from reality,’ he says. ‘Those kids who are selling their bodies on the West Side Highway, on Christopher Street, they don’t even know what the fuck queer theory is.’”

Hence our need to be rooted in grassroots, in the streets, in solidarity with those who are “marginalized.” I’m done with folks and organizations speaking our names and bodies in theory, in death, in stats. Yet ignoring the same folks they discuss in theory without ever knowing us, without ever trying to engage, without ever “outreaching,” without ever lending the stage and resources to us.

As a trans woman of color - no matter what space I enter - I have one stilletoed foot on the street. Always.

assbanditkirk: whoa canada someone needs to turn down that sass...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:15:51 -0700

assbanditkirk:

whoa canada

someone needs to turn down that sass level

deafmuslimpunx: faineemae: My response to Lady Gaga’s...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:20:18 -0800

deafmuslimpunx:

faineemae:

My response to Lady Gaga’s appropriation of the Burqa

About fourteen years ago, the veiled Muslim woman had been cast in television commercials in the United States. She played a part, a supporting one, in the commercial for the Jeep Cherokee made by Chrysler in 1996 shot in Morocco. The veiled woman is seen smiling and admiring the Jeep – sending the message that “if he buys the Jeep … He may even win the admiration of the most inaccessible of women, the woman with the veil”. This gives the illusion to the reader that something that in unattainable is within grasp. Western exotica, like Playboy, use the image of a veiled woman to their advantage as well. Covering certain parts of a woman’s body, leaving the man’s imagination to wander.

When advertisements target American women, advertisement marketers depend on the stereotyping of Muslim women as oppressed and submissive. In 1989 Virginia Slims advertisement with a man pictured in a turban sitting along the sides of three women in headscarves. The turbaned man himself is a mistake; a turban was used primarily by the Sikh religion for their men. You can see the misconceptions that Westerners believe that all people of that region are assumed to don that headdress for their men as well. The caption reads: “The Sultan of Bundi Had Nothing Against Women. He Thought Everyone Should Own Two or Three.” Underneath the woman farthest from the man is an image of a cigarette pack of Virginia Slims, with the caption: “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby.” This method reassures American women consumers that, as western women, they would never be like the oppressed Muslim women pictured if they were to buy the cigarettes.

When Lady Gaga wears a sexualized, orientalist and racist version of what she calls a “burqa” and when she makes a song about having “burqa swag”, She’s actually not doing anyone a favor by wearing it, least of all, Muslim women who actually do wear the burqa. The burqa itself culturally varies in style among the Muslim world, but for Lady Gaga to reclaim something that isn’t a part of her culture OR religion, further hypersexualizes Muslim/Middle Eastern/North African women and their religious/cultural attire. A burqa is not a political statement that Lady Gaga can make.

In fact, it’s highly islamophobic, because she’s really commodifying the religious and cultural garb of Muslims, to further sensationalize stories to satiate the ongoing imperialist fascination with Muslim women’s lives. We are constantly put under the media’s eyes and scrutinized for making the choices to wear our religious garb and deemed as submissive and oppressed individuals while white women who try on a “hijab for a day” or appropriate religious garb, they are applauded for being “revolutionary and brave”. She’s actually making it harder on us by objectifying us even more.

themindislimitless:

Yes there is a very small minority who may be effectively forced to adorn such clothing, through ultra-conservative family pressures, but most muslims scholars agree that it is not obligatory on women at all. Talking from personal experience - I have a few aunts and second cousins who wear the garment - and you know what’s funny about it… the fact that their husbands discourage them from wearing it, but they choose to do so regardless. This is a cultural and personal choice. If she wanted to take off her burkha, she would. This is a personal choice, and the idea that behind every muslim women there is an oppressive man forcing her faith - is nothing but an Islamophobic myth. Muslim women can speak for themselves, they do not need your pity. Clothes-policing is totally contradictory to the principles of democracy, and if we really are a free society not steeped in Islamophobia, this wouldn’t even be a debate, it would be a personal decision - to legally force and harass a women to go against her own personal decision of choice, is totally fucking contradictory to the core principles of freedom and democracy and women’s rights.

(In reference to this)

Muslim women like me, my mother, my aunts, my sisters, my fellow Muslim women around the world are the only ones who can have “burqa swag” and we don’t need your self-righteous, white savior, orientalist, racist, islamophobic bullshit to save us because we can do it ourselves and own it.

So basically, Lady Gaga can fuck right off.

PERFECT COMMENTARY. THANK YOU.

princessryann: LOOK AT PLUTO. PLUTO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:05:22 -0700

princessryann:

LOOK AT PLUTO.

PLUTO YOU WILL ALWAYS BE INVITED TO MY PARTIES, OKAY

Reblogging for pluto.

Why does everyone keep hating on Pluto

Oh Chico

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:20:32 -0700

Fuck this heat.

hmmm

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:02:16 -0700

so much has changed. im different. you’re different. they’re different. life is constantly changing and taking you to new places. i may not be where i want to be yet but I do think im in a good place right now. i hope you are too.

life is love and love is beautiful.

Boys

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:28:56 -0700

sometimes you’re better off when you keep your mouths closed. It keeps your foot out of there.

Stop trying to be cool and tell me what you think I want to hear and just be real.

(via zooeyclaire) yet another reason why i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE her

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:18:44 -0700

(via zooeyclaire)

yet another reason why i LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE her

Waiting...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:20:26 -0700

For you to come and sweep my off my feet already

It breaks my heart that Kobe is sick right now and I’m here in Florence without the power or...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:21:21 -0800

It breaks my heart that Kobe is sick right now and I’m here in Florence without the power or ability to do anything about it. So far I have enjoyed every minute of my time here and haven’t regretted anything about being here but knowing that my dog is sick and I can’t be there hurts, and it’s the one time since I’ve been here that I’ve wished I could be home.

FML

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:18:40 -0800

Did last night/this morning really happen. If so, holy fuck someone should have documented that shit.

3 different essay revisions
1 humanities essay
1 edited essay
the closing paragraphs of another
and one completely from scratch.

What the fuck was I on. Next time I think I’ll skip the coffee and desire to help others.

I don't think I'll be sleeping much tonight <3

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:24:56 -0800

I’m about to have my second cup of coffee and I have 3-4 more papers to do. Its 10 pm and I’m about to start another one, so far I’ve gotten two done. I feel good though, I’m on a working high, if you’re a writer you know what I’m talking about. My fingers are beyond ecstatic to be dancing along the keys on my laptop. Not sure why but it may have something to do with the snow we had today. Not much of it but enough to put me in the happiest state of mind ever. It was the cherry on top of this love cake I’ve built for the city of Florence.

Oh and ps, I think i’m over mr. italian boy. that wasn’t long but in my eyes it was already an eternity. I dunno, there’s still of window of opportunity there for me to change my mind but I think I’m good haha.

Cheers to a night of writing. Since I’m not in the Newsroom right now I had to put in my late nights somewhere!!! Hahaha

xoxo

Jen

my happy music for my giddy smile. boys, snow and music. Im...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:59:21 -0800

my happy music for my giddy smile.

boys, snow and music. Im def in love with life right now.

Life, talk all your shit and give me all your bs to deal with...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:41:52 -0800

Life, talk all your shit and give me all your bs to deal with but you know what, I still get to live here, in this amazing place that some people will never even see, so suck it!

sometimes

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:38:12 -0800

Sometimes life’s hard and it sucks big time. Nothing seems to go right, once you start thinking everythings going your way something comes up and smacks you right in the face.

People come and go, money burns right through your pocket and deadlines/due dates are always around the corner.

But you know what, I don’t care. I know it could always be ten times worse and if it doesn’t kill me then why should I waste any time worrying about it.

Everything is temporary, nothing is forever.

Shit always goes down, the only difference is how you react to it.

I am so thankful for my mom. We might not always be the best of friends but no matter what she’s always there. Dude, unconditional love is amazing. It always there no matter how many times you fuck up or try to get away from it.

The taste on my mouth from the salt of my tears is a reminder that I’m human. No one has ever surprised me more than my mother and I feel so lucky to have her. I’d be nothing without her.

So no matter what situation I seem to find myself in I will always find my way out because I know that the situation itself will pass and waiting for me will always be my mom.

I love you mommy.

Audio

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:38:17 -0800

Seriously?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:33:19 -0800

Hahahahaha