27 3 / 2013
"When Audre Lorde made that much quoted yet often misunderstood cautionary statement warning us that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” she was urging us to remember that we must engage in a process of visionary thinking that transcends the ways of knowing privileged by the oppressive powerful if we are to truly make revolutionary change. She was, in the deep structure of this statement, reminding us that it is easy for women and any exploited or oppressed group to become complicit in structures of domination, using power in ways that reinforce rather than challenge or change."
(via titotibok)
25 3 / 2013
"The policeman who shot down a 10-year-old in Queens
stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood
and a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” and
there are tapes to prove that. At his trial
this policeman and in his own defense
“I didn’t notice the size or nothing else
only the color.” and
there are tapes to prove that, too.
Today that 37-year-old white man with 13 years of police forcing
has been set free
by 11 white men who said they were satisfied
justice had been done
and one black woman who said
“They convinced me” meaning
they had dragged her 4’10” black woman’s frame
over the hot coals of four centuries of white male approval
until she let go the first real power she ever had
and lined her own womb with cement
to make a graveyard for our children."
25 3 / 2013
Hollywood's Depiction of Gay Characters: What We Can Do Better
“The Celluloid Closet, the groundbreaking book written by Vito Russo and the subsequent documentary that followed, said that when homosexuals were depicted on screen, they were people to laugh at, or people to pity, or even people to fear. They were a special and distinct group. Now, that has left a powerful legacy. According to Mr. Russo, Hollywood essentially taught straight people what to think of gay people and gay people what to think about themselves.”
” in all these movies, the main character is murdered or martyred or commits suicide or just dies unhappily. And there are far more pernicious and dangerous images that confront gay kids and their parents: the lesbian murderer, the psychotic transvestite, the queen who is humiliated and sometimes tossed off a ship or a ledge. It’s a big joke. It still happens.”
26 2 / 2013
An on the set picture of Sumiko Braun as “Kim Qi” :D Yay TWSS S2!
25 2 / 2013
First time all 5 ladies of Pearl Girls Productions are together and back in the USA. Get ready y’all “That’s What She Said” Season 2 is in full swing and we are bringing the cute! ❤💛💚💙💜 I love these ladies.
How sweet it is (aside from the surreptitious boob grab I was too slow to prevent).
Season 2 is on and cracking!
12 2 / 2013
Tito Tibok: The most basic example of white privilege I can think of...
If you are a white person who is poor, disabled, queer, suffering from several mental disorders, and generally living as difficult of a life as humanly possible, you can still turn to 99% of channels and instantly see a person who looks like…
26 1 / 2013
They arrived. http://theundeniables.org
Our beloved TWSS co-producer released her second book! Buy it here (did you get the first one?). You could also hunt her down to buy it in person. She may or may not give you a cute, handmade bookmark to go with it.
Somewhere in between working full-time, co-producing TWSS, and being generally awesome, she also wrote a book.
09 1 / 2013
MMmhmm.
As a queer person, you have the right to:
- Create/demand more queer characters in media
- Critique present portrayals of queer characters
- Critique the manner in which a writer handles queer characters, whether the writer is queer or not
- Feel alienated by a queer character if you feel that they are problematic
(via titotibok)
