#queer graff

[radicalgraff]

"Be Queer, Do Crime"

Seen in Kyiv, Ukraine

#graffiti #graff #be queer do crime

[headlamprey]

Cops have been practically LIVING on my block since the shootings but tonight i didn't see any of em so MAYBE i can finally get my spot that was buffed back

#ive been so mad about it #I get buffed a lot more than other graff writers #people see the word QUEER and are like #oh no we cant have that

[ghelgheli]

Recognizing this central ambivalence in regard to so-called Western values—whereby they are cast out as “postmodern authoritarianism” only to be embraced as the “true spirit” of societies to come—is essential to understanding the strategic significance of the anti-gender misappropriation of postcolonial language. This ambivalence sheds light on the fact that the superficial takeover frames the “gender ideology” colonizer not simply as the “West as such but [rather as] the West whose healthy (Christian) core had already been destroyed by neo-Marxism and feminism in the 1960s” (Korolczuk and Graff 2018: 812). Very often, the anti-gender misappropriation takes on a decidedly Islamophobic hue; for all their catering to anticolonial sentiments, anti-gender thinkers often claim that “gender ideology,” with its historical roots in anti-European “neo-Marxism and feminism,” goes hand in hand with the threat of (Muslim) immigration. A blatant example of this can be found in former Cardinal Sarah’s proclamation against the two unexpected threats of our times:

On the one hand, the idolatry of Western freedom; on the other, Islamic fundamentalism: atheistic secularism versus religious fanaticism. To use a slogan, we find ourselves between “gender ideology and ISIS.” . . . From these two radicalizations arise the two major threats to the family: its subjectivist disintegration in the secularized West [and] the pseudo-family of ideologized Islam which legitimizes polygamy [and] female subservience. (Sarah 2015)

Sarah aggressively draws up a dual picture of the true enemy—the biopolitical survival of the family is threatened on the one hand by excessive secularization and sexual freedom, and on the other by “ideologized Islam’s pseudo-family,” which marks the degraded and uncivilized counterpart to Christianity’s proper tradition. This discursive construction of “terrorist look-alikes” as possessing an excessive, uncultivated, and dangerous sexuality yet again plays into the same fundamental racialized mapping of progress that colonial gender undergirded (Puar 2007). This rhetoric is mirrored by Norwegian right-wing politician Per-Willy Amundsen (2021) when he writes that:

I will never celebrate pride. First of all, there are only two sexes: man and woman, not three—that is in contradiction with all biological science. Even worse, they are allowed access to our kids to influence them with their radical ideology. This has to be stopped. If FRI [the national LGBT organization] really cared about gay rights, they would get involved in what is happening in Muslim countries, rather than construct fake problems here in Norway. But it is probably easier to speak about “diversity” as long as it doesn’t cost anything. (Amundsen 2021; translation by author) Here Amundsen draws on the well-known trope of trans* and queer people “preying on our kids” while at the same time reinforcing the homonationalist notion that Europe, and in particular Norway, is a safe h(e)aven for queer people—perhaps a bit too much so. In his response to Amundsen, Thee-Yezen Al-Obaide, the leader of SALAM, the organization for queer Muslims in Norway, aptly diagnoses Amundsen’s rhetoric as “transphobia wrapped in Islamophobia” (as quoted in Berg 2021). Amundsen mirrors a central tenet of TERF rhetoric by claiming to be the voice of science, biology, and reason in order to distinguish his own resistance to “gender ideology” from the repressive, regressive one of Muslims. In this way, his argumentation, which basically claims that trans* people don’t exist and certainly shouldn’t be recognized legally, attempts to come off as benign, while Muslim opposition to “gender ideology” is painted as destructive and anti-modern. This double gesture, which allows Amundsen to have his cake and eat it too, is a central trope in different European iterations of anti-gender rhetoric. In France, for example, such discourse claims that, “while ‘gender ideology’ goes too far on the one hand, the patriarchal control of Islam threatens to pull us back into an excessive past. Here of course, ‘Frenchness’ is always already neither Muslim, nor queer (and certainly not both)” (Hemmings 2020: 30). Therefore the French anti-gender movement sees itself as the defender of true Western civilization, both from Western “gender ideology” and from uncivilized “primitives” who are nevertheless themselves victims of “gender ideology.” A similar dynamic plays out in Britain: “Reading Muslims as dangerous heteroactivists and Christians as benign points to how racialization and religion create specific forms of heteroactivism. . . . Even where ‘Muslim parents’ are supported by Christian heteroactivists, they remain other to the nation, and not central to its defence” (Nash and Browne 2020: 145). In the British example, it is clear that white anti-gender actors represent themselves as moderate, reasonable, and caring—often claiming that their resistance to the “politicization” of the classroom has nothing to do with transphobia and homophobia.

Is “Gender Ideology” Western Colonialism? Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang

#reading #evang

[lyndsyslnmrrsn]

Books I Read in 2022.

The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri

Hiking Shenandoah National Park by Bert and Jane Gildart

Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans with Jeff Chu

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse (audiobook)

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (audiobook)

Bible Gender Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships by James V. Brownson

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry selected by Paul Kingsnorth

Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way and Presence by Diana Butler Bass

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer (audiobook)

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (audiobook)

She Come By It Natural by Sarah Smarsh (audiobook)

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are by Jedidiah Jenkins

The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (audiobook)

God is Here: Reimagining the Divine by Toba Spitzer

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain (audiobook)

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (audiobook)

The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle (audiobook)

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (audiobook)

Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery (audiobook)

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

Columbine by Dave Cullen (audiobook)

Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things by Sophie Woodward

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg (audiobook)

#reading list #reading list 2022 #personal #books #reading #2022

[occult-roommates]

Get to know

Rudi and Dawud finally met their new roommates. After basic presentation, they all had a chat to get to know each others better. Quickly, Dawud came to realized he was the only non-occult in this house, except for this blue-haired person who said their name is Kim Graff.

Dawud: And yeah, that’s basically how I ended up in San Myshuno. Rudi: Aliens? Yeah, sure... Akva: I mean, if all the other occults are real, why wouldn’t alien be?  Kino: Can we switch the topic? Rudi: Is it rude to ask where your accent is from, Kim? I kinda dig it though, so don’t take it badly.

Kino didn’t know what to answer. Of course they have an unusual accent, they’re not even from Earth! They only ended up there three years prior, after their spaceship crashed in the Strangerville desert. Wait, if that’s where Dawud is from, is it another spaceship he saw? Well, might as well answer honestly then, especially if the other roommates are aware of Kino actually being an alien, even though Akva acted as if nothing was...

And then Daniele doubled down on it.

Daniele: They’re from Germany. Dawud: I took German classes back in high school and this does not sound like the accent at all. Rudi: You took classes? Bruh, I AM from Germany, Windenburg to be specific...Not saying that to roast you though, I agree, the accent sounds fuck all like that. Daniele: Wow, no need to be rude, it could be a different dialect. Rudi: Sorry, I’ll admit, I can be a bit abrasive sometime... Dawud: Also you told me that you’re from Costa Rican. Rudi: My mom is Costa Rican, my dad is German. So I spent my childhood in both countries.

And now, Kino didn’t know what to say even more. So they just...left the room. Rudi was starting to believe the “different dialect” excuse however, mostly because they had never met another nonbinary person from Germany, even though Windenburg is fairly queer friendly city, and thought it was super cool to finally meet another one. However, Kino is not really nonbinary in the human sense. It’s more a question of they can barely tell earthlings men and women apart, and their species only has one sex, so they never really developed a concept like men and women to begin with. This causes them to default to they/theming everyone, including themself. 

Daniele: Speaking of where we’re from, Dawud...Are you from the wood? Dawud: You see, this is exactly why my parents decided to spell my name with a U even though the spelling D-A-W-O-O-D is more common. Charlie: Did it worked? Dawud: As you’ve just witnessed, no it did not. Daniele: I mean, it might be spelled differently, but it’s still pronounced the same. Dawud: I kinda wish they named me Khaled like originally planned. But they were afraid nobody could pronounce it. Which like, if you can pronounce the J in jalapeño you can pronounce the kh in Khaled. Rudi: That’s the thing, most people can’t pronounce correctly the J in jalapeño either. Akva: I went to school with a guy named Khaled. He’s dead now.

Oh, alright then...As this conversation ended quite abruptly, Dawud simply sat there. He had just met these people, but they all seemed like nice individual. He picked the perfect place to live. Now that the introductions were done, time to see what comes next.

Prev - Next (mild nsfw)

#the sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #ts4 simblr #the sims #sims community #sims 4 community #sims 4 gameplay #simblr story #occult roommates #dawud sahan #rudi marron #kino gurafee #akva singh #daniele rossini #charlie yi #long post #OcRo s1

[lifblogs]

If anyone wants to read the short story I accidentally ended up live-blogging my read of, here you go! It’s sci-fi with a bit of good whump (I wouldn’t say it’s graphic though), and a queer love story. Of course, those are basically the “tags.” The summary explains it better:

Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he’s not dead, and now he has to explain.

#reading #short story #sci-fi

[muttfangs]

looked at the wall graffiti in the bathroom of my favorite coffee shop this morning. there was a trans flag sticker on the towel dispenser. It said FUCK THE CISTEM. someone drew a swastika over it. I don't understand this place anymore. I don't understand how there's so many right wing fash creeps coming into my city.

it's just really jarring and upsetting going somewhere I'm at all the time, that i know is very queer and grungy and leftist. and seeing swastikas over the encouraging trans & queer bathroom graff.

it feels violating

#barking into the void #I keep thinking about it and I want to cry tbh #a lot has been happening to me lately and this kinda sent me over the edge and im high key super miserable today yay

[the-fragility-of-nostalgia]

Hard take: I've gotten more acceptance while randomly running into cis graff bros then I ever did while tryna forcefully interact with the queer community.

#dumbbitch

[luminenwalker]

Catchup 3

I am hopeless. I am blind. I feel the rush. I am the enemy. //RRH 

'Take these Mayans and their star-clocks, their carvings and their great cities. Who sacked them out of their cities, drowned the cities with a green jungle? A plague? A change of climate? A queer migration? Certainly they were skilful, certainly they created. //RRH 

Its Halloween Heads so be on the look out for childish people in stupid outfits demanding bribes under threat of pathetic menaces- wait sorry its Tower Halloween is tomorrow. //Livewire 

Have you ever seen Gen-Z kids acting like actual kids? No? Well then, try opening your doors on Halloween nights and give them candies, and you'll be able to see a spark of that thing we've all lost in these dark times. //Aunt Jenny 

Celebrating Día de los Muertos? Oh no. I always wear a colorful mask that covers the entirety of my face, offers some ballistic protection and happens to be frequently seen by the soon to be deceased. //Smiling Doll 

Do you ever think about the scabs you get after a tattoo? Don't you wish they'd just keep growing, thick plates of yellowed skin? Meet us at the Projects. We can talk. //Daydream

I'm seeing stranger graff. More burnouts in the street. Radios playing synth with insect noises? Something strange is going on in this city. A wave of dread. I should know. I'm riding it. //Tee-J 

Surrender to the urge. Destrudo. Only worms are wise. Mortido. //Human 

Something I'm seeing lately is people not being able to hold onto their egos. Don't mean losing confidence or thinking they're nova-hot shit. They lose the thing that lets them hold onto their own identity. Don't let addiction or the shakes twist you into someone worse. //Onran 

You know, I heard the other day someone talking about choice. It got me thinking. I don't really think we have one. Oh, we want to believe we do, but Cinci has other ideas. You know where you're allowed to go, where you're not, who you can talk to, who you can't. //Catbear 

The only choice you get is the blood in your veins, and more often than not, you don't even get that one. Choice; fuckin' delusional. //Catbear 

Whether you get to eat, or starve, that's something the city dictates to you. Hell, it's hard to even get the buzz you want! A whole city full of chems and stims and spikes, but never the one you're lookin' for, am I right? //Catbear 

There's a point where the body resists the agony it is currently in, firing off every single endogenous opioid it has to control the damage, to get you back home. I intend to go beyond that. //Shallow 

This blade, it's beautiful. Shining steel, glittering in the light... I want to see what it looks like covered in blood now. //Crimson Rose 

When you're working the information business, don't ever learn more than you can sell. //Lu 

So many people with prosthetic arms, almost nobody with prosthetic legs. Imagine what your mother would think, knowing you're still walking around on the two stubs she gave you. //Daydream 

Engineers saw the anatomical superfund site that is the human knee and steered clear. //Livewire 

People don't wake up happy, they wake up tired. //RRH 

The problem with AI isn't AI itself, it's that AI is replacing humans in jobs that humans can do better. And humans aren't learning to do those jobs because AI is doing them for them. //RRH 

"Nobody likes the smell of reality." //Unknown

#cyberpunkdreams #cyberpunk

[freckleslikestars]

‘I can’t even straighten my hair!’

Camp (2003)

#camp (2003) #lgbtq+ #I watched this film when I was 13 and honestly it made me feel so at home #it’s certainly not the most progressive of films #but it was possibly the most progressive film I’d seen at that point #also it has a baby Anna Kendrick in it #Stephen sondheim also makes an appearance #my gifs #lgbtq+ films #queer films #Anna Kendrick #stephen sondheim #Daniel letterle #Joanna chilccoat #robin de jesus #dequina Moore #Sasha Allen #Todd graff #films that made me gay #film gifs

[radicalgraff]

Graff piece in Zagreb in solidarity with Queer House, a squat in Copenhagen in the process of being evicted by cops.

Police are now surrounding the building and protecting construction workers hired to tear down the building.

While part of the building has been demolished, squatters have so far stalled the demolition work by occupying the roof.

The squat was created both as a living and social and political support space for young queers.

Defend all squats.

Fristeder til alle

#graffiti #graff #defend all squats #defend queer house #queer house #Copenhagen #zagreb graffiti

[headlamprey]

Oh so i had a weird moment last night where another graff writer was like. Someone was asking about you. I was like, Me? Who am I even? And it turned out they thought i was Gay Chaos which is hilarious because what I write now is a response to them. Fuck y'all I'm QUEER RIOT! I told him why i started writing it and he was like whatever same thing and i was like yeah riots and chaos tend to go together and he was like YOU WANNA GO START A RIOT? LETS BOMB CITY HALL!!!! obvi i was like FUCK YEAH LETS GO and his gf (a VERY good friend of mine) was like NO NO GET INSIDE RIGHT NOW AND DRINK COFFEE so i was like alright I'm out you drink that coffee boi

#which is for the best because i was wearing bad falling apart shoes

[tonrr]

#urban #graff #graffiti #tights #garter #parkade #concrete #denim jacket #creepers #tattoos #tattooed #downtown #queer #gay

[judas-isariot]

Pardonne moi, si, evidemment. Je n’ai pas su te plaire.

#Louce #Humain #graffiti #graff #butch #lady #queer #LGBTQ #lgbt #gif #woman #color #light #flash #city #bi #lesbian #tag #paint #my art #my artwork #my work

[mr-mahaffey]

Just seemed like a good day to do a blue spray of my Uhura <3

#startrek #uhura #popart #graffitiart #streetart #graff #scifiart #fantasy painting #queer art #instagay #fucktrump #trumpsucks #cohen testimony #blm #black lives matter #painting #protest art

[highstrungloner]

QUEER RAGE • • • • #queerrage #queer #gay #pride #graffiti #graff #streetart #sharpie #pwm #portland #portlandmaine #maine #shotoniphone #iphone12 #lightroom (at Portland, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPREwDXNd7J/?utm_medium=tumblr

#queerrage #queer #gay #pride #graffiti #graff #streetart #sharpie #pwm #portland #portlandmaine #maine #shotoniphone #iphone12 #lightroom