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— Zoe Leonard

I will never stop loving this quote.

#poetry

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“Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” – Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 - November 15, 2014). Picture: Feinberg, c. 2012. Leslie Feinberg, who died two years ago today, was a pioneering transgender and butch lesbian writer and activist who fundamentally altered the mainstream discussion about gender and sexuality. Feinberg’s writings, particularly “Stone Butch Blues” (1993) and “Transgender Warriors” (1996), were key contributions to the queer canon. “Stone Butch Blues,” Feinberg’s best-known work, is the partly-autobiographical story of Jess Goldberg, who narrates “into adulthood…and comes to grips with [their] complicated…sexual and gender identity at a time when practicing a so-called alternative lifestyle invited stigma, open discrimination and, in many settings, menacing opprobrium.” With “Transgender Warriors,” Feinberg laid the groundwork for much of the terminology that continues to shape the fight for trans rights; “[t]he struggle of trans people over the centuries,” Feinberg wrote, “is not his-story or her-story. It is our-story.” Beyond hir (Feinberg’s preferred pronoun) writing, Feinberg also was a lifelong activist: ze organized a 1974 march against racism in Boston, was an early AIDS advocate, and spent much of hir life fighting for reproductive justice. But it was “Stone Butch Blues,” according to Shauna Miller, that “changed queer history. It changed trans history. It changed dyke history. And how it did that was by honestly telling a brutally real, beautifully vulnerable and messy personal story of a butch lesbian.” Leslie Feinberg died on November 15, 2014, of complications from tick-borne infections, including chronic Lyme disease, which ze suffered from since the 1970s; ze was sixty-five. Feinberg, who is survived by hir spouse, Professor Minnie Bruce Pratt, attributed hir health crisis to “bigotry, prejudice and lack of science,” issues ze wrote about in “Casualty of an Undeclared War.” #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #LeslieFeinberg #TransWeek

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You plague me like the moon.

Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers  (via neuroptera)

#stations of the cross

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#of course

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are u the prophet who tells god to chill or are you the prophet god tells to chill 

#the latter lmao #smite me u bitch idgaf #prophets

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BREAKING: Astrology has now been entirely replaced with which Mario Kart character you main

#YOSHI RIDE OR DIE

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Van Jones tells CNN and the nation exactly what a Trump presidency means

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Tammy Duckworth wins Senate seat in Illinois

Democrat Tammy Duckworth has won the Illinois Senate race, beating out Republican incumbent Mark Kirk, the Associated Press reported at 9:03 p.m. Duckworth’s lead surged after Kirk attacked her family’s history of military service. Duckworth, an Army combat pilot who lost both of her legs in Iraq, talked about her Thai heritage and pointed out that her family’s military service dated back to the American Revolution. Read more

#Illinois pulled thru for me I'm glad I can trust ONE state in this goddamn union

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When someone comments on your physical appearance and you’re forced to acknowledge the vessel of flesh you inhabit

#yesterday a McDonald's cashier asked me if I was nervous and I was like #really? we're really doing this? can't I just be a formless mass ordering French fries? Lord

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What love did then, love does now: / Gnaws me through.

Sylvia Plath, from “Dialogue Between Ghost & Priest” in Collected Poems (via watchoutforintellect)

#stations of the cross

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Visiting the Brooklyn Museum? Share your bubbly moments with us using #mybkm and you may end up on our feeds!

Photo by @dianexg

#big plans for that fish #art

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The Cubs have won the World Series - November 2, 2016

#HONESLTY WHATS EVEN A CUB BUT LIKE YOOOOOOOOOO #I CANT BELIEBE I NEED TO GONTO WORK RN #ISNT IT A CHICAGO HOLIDAY TODAY LIIIIIKE

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“HOW DO YOU SPELL BELIEF? CUBS!,” pioneering gay activist and photographer Jerry Pritkin and Chicago Cubs coach Don Zimmer, Spring 1984. Photo © Jerry Pritikin. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #QueerHistoryMatters #HavePrideInHistory

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Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?

Thomas Daggett, The Prophecy (via arial86)

@ancienttext @angelconcepts

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#I luv my kids #angels

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Downloadable Pumpkin Stencils for Art History Nerds

Are you a classicist? Love that ancient life? Want a fairly easy pumpkin design? We’ve prepared some *gourd-geous* downloadable pumpkin stencils for you based on objects in the Getty Villa collection. Just click the links below, download, cut out, trace, and carve!

Amphora, storage vessel

Olpe, pouring vessel

Kylix, drinking vessel

Athlete

Female Figure

Happy Halloween!

#happy halloween

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fma discourse

how does al see if he doesn’t have eyes

#fck yo u #he tries his best

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“be the bigger person” no?? im 5"0 and bitter u be the bigger person???

#tru