EMBODIMENT: A PORTRAIT OF QUEER LIFE IN AMERICA
Ducky and her friends, 2008 | Kate and Laurel, 2007 | Princeton and Lena, 2009 | Ronnie and Jo, 2005 | Simon and West, 9AM | Damian and Daughters, 2009 | Cat and Brittany, 2009 | Jentleman of Distinction, 2009 | Mandy, 2005 | David and Isaac, 2007
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Some shots from my recent collab “Insect Virtue” with @samsketchbook at Parachute Factory in Lexington, KY.
The work included a large moving sculpture by Sam, audio work by me, handmade cobwebs, magnolia trees, around 60 eggplant sprouts, and roughly 1500lbs of dirt.
It was very dark, smelled strongly of soil, and was full of bugs.
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Bisexual women experience the highest rates of domestic violence among women–higher than straight women and lesbians. This is probably because bi women frequently face the intersections of misogyny and homophobia in relationships with straight men, and also experience unique stigma and pressures for being bi.
All the media’s rhetoric blaming Amber Heard’s bisexuality for the divorce and abuse both stems from and feeds into this reality. Bi women are at extremely high risk, and it’s simply not talked about enough.
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miley cyrus is definitely horrible and wildly offensive and a terrible person for 1 million reasons, but one thing about her i just find weird and just bizarre is how she acts like she’s really revolutionary for smoking weed?? like thats just…. so strange? i just saw this quote from her in a magazine where she was like “no one is gonna make me the face of a major beauty brand unless they want a weed smoking liberal freak, but i dont wanna be beautiful… i wanna save the world!” like…. wtf…. miley cyrus… u did not invent smoking weed? u didnt even invent being really public about smoking weed? tons of musicians have been doing that… forever…..? and not to mention the blatant privilege of that statement (like how poor & black ppl are WAY disproportionately arrested for marijuana related crimes compared to other groups.) like…. its just genuinely so strange and perplexing? do you think she really feels that way? like, do you think she sits in her mansion smoking weed and saying to herself: “god…. im so incredibly counterculture…. im opening my 3rd eye right now, and i see that i am meant to introduce the masses to the wonder that is… marijuana…. people arent gonna believe this stuff… ive got to be brave and spread this message, even if it makes me a liberal freak, because once the people hear about WEED…. im gonna save the world……..” I truly feel like thats literally how she thinks about things. i just cant wrap my head around it. its so embarrassing. like… weed culture has always been embarrassing, but she takes it to the next level. it makes me honestly wanna become like a puritan rn. like, weed is great, and im all for it, but why on earth do so many ppl think they invented it and they are so edgy for smoking weed. its honestly… not… a big deal…. calm down
“these names are considered ghetto but they mean something”
okay and…. so what…. who cares if they mean something…. black people’s names shouldnt have to mean hope and love for people not to make fun of them
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Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage.
I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.
And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?
Good for them.
Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”
And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.
My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.
The workers in NY made them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.
— Jens Rushing (via accidentalambience)(via naomiknight17-blog)
‘OITNB’ Actress Speaks Out About Family’s Deportation
“I was coming home from school […] and I got home and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on but I couldn’t find them.Then the neighbors came in. They were just like ‘I’m sorry but your parents were taken away.’ […] I just broke down. I was just like, what do you do? And then I’m so scared for them, what they’re going through. My parents are going to jail— and for what? […] People don’t realize it is so difficult to get documented, and my parents tried forever. The system didn’t offer relief for them.“ —Diane Guerrero
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