reblogging this so i’ll read it later~
THIS IS REALLY GOOD. the scan is unfortunately pretty low-resolution so some of it is a bit hard to read but SO GOOD.
I read this zine in my Queer Poetics class with Rebekah Edwards at Mills College. One of my first exposures to zines, and an amazing array of critical and creative work.
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On Actually Keeping Queer Queer: A response to Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga’s essay, entitled “Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer,” is a two-part essay that was first published in 2009. The first part is a brilliantly written critique on the mainstream gay rights movement’s focus on marriage equality. The second part is a misguided and misinformed attack on the trans* community in general and the transmasculine community in particular. Moraga is well known within QTPOC activist circles and the purpose for this response is to facilitate an inter-generational dialogue that is both effective and salient. I want to bring our best to the table by continuing to challenge and critique, while at the same time to honor and recognize those that have come before. In short, I want to change the world and the only way to do that is to work together.
In the first half of the essay, Moraga outlines how the gay rights movement is flawed in its mostly white, single-issue politics. She says that the movement is “prompted by the entitlement of race and class” which the mostly white queer proponents of the movement possess. In other words, she states that the contemporary gay rights movement seeks not to challenge those systems of power that keep people oppressed, which is what it’s original aim was, but instead desires to assimilate into those very systems- both as individuals and as a movement. Moreover, she argues that the movement fails to recognize the way white queers are implicit in the cultural imperialism involved in transnational adoption and “the support of immigrant rights for gay couples but not for migrant workers”…
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A real badass trans woman wrote this, and I totally recommend it. In fact, this shit should be required reading for Chicanos/as/@s.
This is the response I felt but was unable to articulate when I read this last semester. Thank you!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2elcmHVtn1rt1b3do1_400.jpg)
On Actually Keeping Queer Queer: A response to Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga’s essay, entitled “Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer,” is a two-part essay that was first published in 2009. The first part is a brilliantly written critique on the mainstream gay rights movement’s focus on marriage equality. The second part is a misguided and misinformed attack on the trans* community in general and the transmasculine community in particular. Moraga is well known within QTPOC activist circles and the purpose for this response is to facilitate an inter-generational dialogue that is both effective and salient. I want to bring our best to the table by continuing to challenge and critique, while at the same time to honor and recognize those that have come before. In short, I want to change the world and the only way to do that is to work together.
In the first half of the essay, Moraga outlines how the gay rights movement is flawed in its mostly white, single-issue politics. She says that the movement is “prompted by the entitlement of race and class” which the mostly white queer proponents of the movement possess. In other words, she states that the contemporary gay rights movement seeks not to challenge those systems of power that keep people oppressed, which is what it’s original aim was, but instead desires to assimilate into those very systems- both as individuals and as a movement. Moreover, she argues that the movement fails to recognize the way white queers are implicit in the cultural imperialism involved in transnational adoption and “the support of immigrant rights for gay couples but not for migrant workers”…
[Submitted by kararikue]
A real badass trans woman wrote this, and I totally recommend it. In fact, this shit should be required reading for Chicanos/as/@s.
This is the response I felt but was unable to articulate when I read this last semester. Thank you!
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My femme identity is a purposeful reclamation of femininity from the white supremacist classist heteronormative cis-patriarchy. It is a way of saying there is no contradiction being a radical anti-white-supremacist feminist and supporting my local immigrant-woman-ran nail salon. There is no contradiction in being my own kind of pretty and getting work done.
In fact, it an act of resistance. Femme is a chosen, rather than assigned femininity.Femme is taking all the toxic representations of femininity that have scarred us our whole lifetimes, cutting out the rotting parts of shame, and finding a way to celebrate what we liked in the first place.
Femme is fat-positive, poor and working-class-positive, brown-positive, sex-positive, queer-positive femininity.
It does not buy into femme-infighting or girl-hatred; slut shaming or rape culture; diets, eating disorders, or skin bleaching; the fashion industry’s insistent constant redefinition of aesthetic acceptability; the belief that the point of being femme is to attract mates; femme does not buy into anything that harms any of us.
Translating queer theory into Spanish…dream job. I should enjoy this.
Something that falls under this: The American Dream. Must investigate this delicious term further. Anybody have good links or insight?
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I am uploading this video here because I saw plenty of folks sharing it on Facebook and it seems, oh my god so moving!
I’m so tired of this “same” bullshit. The normative in this “same” is a white, middle-class, able-bodied, monogamous heterosexual couple and we are ALL to abide and try to strive to live up to that standard. Look at the queers! they can raise children! omg how dehumanizing. The notion of “sameness” replicated in gay rights only propagates a heteronormative framework in which “difference” is not perceive as alien and pathologized insofar as it complies and obeys with this framework.
Fuck that. I AM NOT the same nor do I wish to be part of a homogenous, gender normative, church going happy family of replicated minions. I strive for spaces where queer desires take on infinite, imaginative forms and are venerated, loved for that.
We need to imagine differently, to imagine otherwise.
Ditto above. I also reblogged to queerisaverb.tumblr.com
