May 2013
95 posts
Non-Binary Gender Terms Across Languages →
gqid:
Although there are many English-language resources and glossaries about transgender, genderqueer, and non-binary terms, there are not as many in other languages. I have begun a few pages at the Non-Binary Wiki, which anyone can edit, to list terms and their meanings in a few languages:
Glossary of Chinese gender and sex terminology
Glossary of Japanese gender and sex terminology
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"On a number of levels, Rid Of Me was an album...
Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited
“I feel that the characters in the story already exist in a limbo outside my...”
– P. D. James (via theparisreview)
Very true, at least in regards to my usual process.
“Once and forever, capitalism is a worthy tool and...
David Simon (The Wire) on what happened to journalism.
“As erotic language, such as we use in dalliance, is a kind of secretion, a...”
– Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose
via foxesinbreeches (via frenchtwist)
“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the...”
– Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via commanderspock)
Twist Street: Different types of ‘outdoor... →
kryz:
BOOT GIRLS
Dominatrices near the Wittenberg Platz whose sexual services were signaled by the colors of their boots, laces, and ribbons, sometimes worn in combination.
Black boots: buttocks cropping (lying on bed).
Brown boots: asphyxiation by boot or stockinged foot.
Cobalt blue…
There are people I might have loved had they... →
fette:
Harvey Milk, from The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words, 2012.
“In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest...”
– David Edwards, Burning All Illusions (via dishabillic)
“This afternoon, a stranger set an aerial drone into flight over my yard and...”
– So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic (via new-aesthetic)
"But before that, Carruth will say all kinds of...
Shane Carruth Will Have Another: Getting extremely drunk with indie film’s leading visionary-recluse-lunatic
Ales Kot builds a better Suicide Squad by breaking... →
oliversava:
Ales Kot and Patrick Zircher give new life to DC’s supervillain team with an outstanding debut issue.
I was floored by Ales Kot, Patrick Zircher, and Jason Keith’s first issue of Suicide Squad. I wrote a whole lot about it for The A.V. Club.
“Film audience’s current consumption habits do not come close to matching the...”
– Ted Hope’s “17 Things About The Film Biz That Should Significantly Influence Your Behavior”. (via twiststreet)
“If there was an award for most improved comic in 2013, this would win it.” — MTV
“With new characters, a revised status quo and striking execution from both the writer and the artistic team, this wayward book just shot to the top of my DC reading list.” — Newsarama
“If the New 52 lacked a superhero noir before, it certainly has one now.” —...
READER MAIL: THIS IS FOR THE MISFITS
claytoncubitt:
hello clayton yet again, i see something in you that inspires. as a kid, i wanted to go to art school, i wanted to create. i had a good eye for color, and i enjoyed putting visual elements together. it calmed me. my mother did not nourish this creativity, and absolutely shunned the idea of me ever going to art school with the intention of making things. to my mother, and to many...
“My best time is the morning; my preferred
Season, midsummer. I once overheard...”
– Excerpt from Canto Four of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (via dezzoster)
Deconstructing The Lulz: Also, since I mentioned... →
sterwood:
A sequel to Cyclonopedia and the second installment in the Blackening trilogy, The Mortiloquist is a barbaric interpretation of the life and problems of Western philosophy.
Feasting on the theatrical resources of Greek tragedy, Jacobean revenge drama, grand guignol theater, the…
Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark... →
seanbonner:
wilwheaton:
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes...
It’s raining in Los Angeles which means somewhere you are crying while the wolves are howling which means somewhere a mud slide
which means eventually everything will be okay unless you will say it’s not in which case the mountain will slide again under the rain and we will dance while the cars are howling around us on the freeway
flipped cars crashed cars cars avoiding accidents cars...
