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The most excellent folks over at Autostraddle recently conducted...

The most excellent folks over at Autostraddle recently conducted their tMoCP book club, and as part of it I answered 36 (or maybe 38, it’s all a bit fuzzy) smart, thoughtful, funny CAM POST related questions on everything from recent dyke films that a 2012 Cam might opt for as a tool of seduction (rather than The Hunger, that is), to the autobiographical elements of the novel, to my reparative therapy research, to Cam’s personal tumblr, and even the exact nature of Coley’s sexuality. Those Autostraddlians (Autostraddlers?) are some savvy, engaged readers, and their wit and warmth in the comments section reveals as much.

(click-the-pic for the full interview)

“There’s always someone asking you to underline one...

“There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself—whether it’s Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc.—because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. But once you do that, then you’ve lost because then you become acquired or bought by that particular essence of yourself, and you’ve denied yourself all of the energy that it takes to keep all those others in jail. Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they’re constantly repairing it. It’s as if they live in both elements. That’s something that we have to do, too, in our own lives—keep it all afloat. It’s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we’ll make it. But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching.”

                                                                                      ~Audre Lorde

likeafieldmouse:Alexis Arnold - The Catcher in the Rye (2011)...

likeafieldmouse:

Alexis Arnold - The Catcher in the Rye (2011) - Book encrusted with borax crystals

"It is an exercise in futility if we do not take the next steps now. In preparation for the 2014..."

““It is an exercise in futility if we do not take the next steps now. In preparation for the 2014 election, we must demand that our representatives pass comprehensive election reform, including publicly financed races and a secure, transparent vote count. A privatized, secret ballot count must be viewed as a violation of our civil rights. Once that principle is clear, as it is now in Germany and Ireland, the rest will naturally follow. If we the people do not feel the outrage, or lack the courage to fight for this most basic right of American self-governance, who will?””

- No matter how tired you are of election coverage, of politics in general: You must read this Harper’s article on election fraud. You must. (And prepare to feel pretty gross about it. And then let’s act.) http://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/?single=1

likeafieldmouse:Inflated/Deflated

likeafieldmouse:

Inflated/Deflated

fuckyeahrachelmaddow:Regardless, Marriage Equality is on the...

fuckyeahrachelmaddow:

Regardless, Marriage Equality is on the ballot tomorrow in 4 states. Make your vote count!

"She and Sally fell a little behind. Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a..."

““She and Sally fell a little behind. Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The others disappeared; there she was alone with Sally. And she felt that had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it—a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down) she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!””

- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

USA of YA. The fine folks at Epic Reads put together this...

USA of YA. The fine folks at Epic Reads put together this awesome map. Check it out in all its glory by clicking-the-pic.

USA of YA. The fine folks at Epic Reads put this awesome map...

USA of YA. The fine folks at Epic Reads put this awesome map together. Check out it out in all its glory by clicking-the-pic.

A fundamentalist Christian minister has become the first to...

A fundamentalist Christian minister has become the first to link Hurricane Sandy to marriage equality and the “homosexual agenda.”

C’mon, Pastor McTernan: do you really think God’s wrath for gains in LGBTQ equality would come in the form of a hurricane? Obviously God already gave us queers the one and only Sandy we’ll ever need (for a crush; for a drag costume; for all the camp in the world).

(Click the pic for an article detailing this ridiculousness)