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None of our movements had done the kind of work you ended up having to do in order to guarantee the most fundamental rights for someone who was getting sick. So it was really an extraordinary thing for me. It changed the way I understood activism. There’s no way that you have the privilege of just being an outsider when you’re fighting an epidemic. You can always be right when you’re in an outsider position. Your placard can always sound clever. Your chants can always sound correct. But when you’ve got to make sure that somebody gets bathed in a hospital, you’ve got to try to figure out how to maintain that radical position and how to get inside that hospital at the same time, so that when you’re not there, that person is still getting cleaned in a way that respects their dignity.

— Amber Hollibaugh on AIDS activism, quoted in An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003) by Ann Cvetkovich, Ch. 5.

#reblog #quotes #something something history rhymes

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Curious. Has anyone here ever flipped through Ace by Angela Chen? I’d otherwise have genuine interest in reading an examination of asexuality as seemingly in-depth as this book—but since the back blurb is explicitly some “A in LGBTQIA” shit, I struggle to trust that

the book won’t take some bizarrely pretentious/out-of-touch angles on sexually active people that I’m used to hearing, or at the very least

I can just ignore any potential “being ace is totally like being gay except we’re intellectually above you simpletons” talk & still have the majority of the book remain valuable & coherent in terms of sociological insight.

I can deal with a “there’s some goofy shit you can just mentally cross out & the rest of the text is pretty much the same” book but ideally would like to be aware of the bullshit ratio prior to jumping in lol.

#personal

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i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.

#reblog

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Popping out from my cave to recommend the socialist feminist author Lynne Segal to like, everybody. I have yet to get to her post-2000 works (apparently she also has a new title dropping this November), but I have read & enjoyed the following:

Is the Future Female?: Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism (1987)

Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (1990)

Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate (1993) (this one is an anthology she put together)

Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure (1994)

Content warning for Straight Sex: Within the last third of the book there are a tiny handful (like, less than 5 total) of dismissive comments regarding transfeminine medical transition, which will certainly inspire an eye roll but are neither antagonistic (it’s really just “wow people do that” cis person of the 90s-core) nor relevant to any of her actual talking points (which, to me, remain incredibly valuable otherwise).

If anyone is particularly curious, I read them in the following order: Slow Motion, Straight Sex, Sex Exposed, Is the Future Female? But I don’t think that’s particularly important.

#personal #also my birthday is soon B)

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Rejoicing!! 💕💜💙

Hell yeah B)

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Bisexy week is upon us yet again. Rejoice!

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I don’t know how long these stickers have been here, but I can now enjoy the awareness of their presence. So can you.

Also, if you’re some sort of local super-sleuth who can tell where I took this image, turn around & make an immediate right. Non-zero chance I’m smoking weed there.

#personal #apparently im relocating in 4 days instead of the 2 weeks i thought it was so this is ur shiny new limited time window to hunt for kravitz

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While I still disagree with most projects to assign or peddle a personal “asexual” identity onto children as if child sexuality is one-to-one equivalent with adult sexuality, I also no longer agree with the bulk of the ways I argue against it in my essay on the subject, so I’m heavily considering taking that piece down because I’m no longer satisfied by it. A bit worried that it’ll be interpreted as a cheap route to take instead of Making a Statement About It, but also who cares.

In other news, I logged into Medium for the first time in months (I was just unable to do so for a long time) & I come back to 69 notifications. Nice.

#personal #a lot of discourse abt this label would so easily be solved if people would just agree on definitions already please god

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“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.

#reblog #ask to tag #well goddamn 😳

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I just want to get dicked down again =/

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if you’re mediumkravitz, then is there an easykravitz or a hardkravitz?

I wouldn’t know, haven’t fought them yet

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I second previous anon. Your contributions to the bisexual community are enormous; you can retire, never write anything ever again, and you would rest easy at night knowing that you've done more than most of us will in a lifetime. You accomplished what most of us only dream of: you actually gave back to the community. That said, I've got a question: do you have any advice on how to get a room in a shelter? I might be homeless soon, so I should start looking for LGBT shelters.

I’m very curious what it’d be like to view my body of work as someone who isn’t me because I never thought in terms of “giving back” or anything—I just wanted to say my piece. I have very little emotional attachment to what I’ve done though it feels like I should...? In any case, I’m happy that I’ve put stuff out that’s special to people.

With shelters, I don’t know. I have no idea what it’s like anywhere besides the specific system I’m in. Just see what’s in your area and do an intake at their community center. I was virtually immediately placed in a room, which is uncommon, so I can’t give waitlist advice. IDK how it is in other places but it seems the majority of shelters here you’re not allowed to cook for yourself (I lucked out).

I also don’t know how it’ll be where you are (I gather that outside of metropolitan & adjacent cities the app’s pretty dead) but in NYC a lot of people on Lex are seeking/advertising apartment rooms or otherwise looking to find someone to apartment hunt with, so if you have income that’s another option which may be preferable.

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Aw, it's a shame this is the end of your Medium journey. You've given us a lot, though. Like, you've given so much to the bisexual community. I am so thankful to you personally that words aren't enough to express it. I hope you keep reblogging stuff, btw. Besides writing your own bangers, you reblogged really good posts. Cheers to you and I wish you the best! 🍾🥂

My Medium journey itself ended a while ago—when I said I’m out of posts I meant I’m currently out of things to reblog. I’ve emptied out my likes & drafts and I don’t intend on scouring the bloggosphere for more posts just for the sake of it. I’m not die-hard committing to Never Saying Anything Ever Again but I’m relieving myself of the illusion of any responsibility to do so.

This blog had a far longer life span than I intended anyway. I might try to explore this website recreationally in the future.

I will say that in my head I am still rotating the idea of doing a little in-person park meet up (I would say picnic but I will likely not be putting that much effort in if I do it lmao) when the weather’s nicer though, if there’s any interest. In any case I should be stably housed by springtime, pray I get out of this shelter by March 🙏🏾

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For the record I am officially Out of Posts™ so this blog is now for the most part inactive. I will probably continue to answer asks but consider this the end of my run here. Big win for Kravitz personally. Now I can dedicate my time on the internet to reblogging tiddies elsewhere as god intended

#personal

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by request - "about horses and ponies"

#reblog #ask to tag #quotes

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being uncomfortable becomes easier when you realize that’s literally the point. it’s like working out. if you work out & it becomes easy for you, you already got all you could out of that workout. your body adjusted & is strong enough to handle it now. you’re not improving anymore. that’s why you up the ante with harder workouts, where you’re uncomfortable & not quite strong enough yet. bc eventually you will be strong enough. but if it’s not a challenge, there’s no gain. & that’s exactly how it is with situations out of your comfort zone. the more you put yourself in them, the easier they get—but that in-between phase where you’re struggling is still completely valid and ok and natural. it’s what’s supposed to happen. it’s what’s going to change you as a person. and you should keep doing it

#reblog

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Whenever someone says “what were [X people] smoking when they thought up this dumb shit” I imagine a hypothetical weed strain, perhaps dubbed Bad Take Kush or Politrickal OG, that always makes you convinced of some bullshit opinion you otherwise wouldn’t imagine even thinking about upon smoking enough of it

#strains are fake but this is funny i think hashtag please clap