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"We see simultaneously both the fortification of normative heterosexual coupling and the propagation of sexualities that mimic, parallel, contradict, or resist this normativity. These proliferating sexualities, and their explicit and implicit relationships to nationalism, complicate the dichotomous implications of casting the nation as only supportive and productive of heteronormativity and always repressive and disallowing of homosexuality. I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the terrorist is one discursive tactic that disaggregates U.S. national gays and queers from racial and sexual others, foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay and queer subjects themselves: homonationalism. For contemporary forms of U.S. nationalism and patriotism, the production of gay and queer bodies is crucial to the deployment of nationalism, insofar as these perverse bodies reiterate heterosexuality as the norm but also because certain domesticated homosexual bodies provide ammunition to reinforce nationalist projects."

Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

#if you're so butthurt you can't understand ~jArGoN~ perhaps instead of being a little bitch you could read a book :) #anyway thank you opencommunion! #academia #readings #homonationalism #jasbir puar

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he is at an amusement part which is themed of himself (while wearing a hat of his face)

#pompompurin #sanrio #queued

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Two manul kittens playing in a beautiful field during golden hour

#pallas cat #cat #gentle

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Chefchaouen 2023

#morocco #places #architecture #MY BELOVED!!!!!

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you should be able to say "line" if you don't know what to say in a social situation

#prev that is such a valid interpretation 🩷 peace and love

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The discourse on terrorism is generally devoid of historical perspectives (‘terrorists are pure evil’ is one popular trope) and lacks any positionality because, it is assumed, terrorists simply live outside of morality and social norms. But such ahistorical and essentialist attitudes came to haunt this discourse when a former terrorist, Nelson Mandela, became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or, more recently, when Osama bin Laden, a former American ally, ‘turned’ terrorist. The discourse on terrorism also does not account for state terrorism, whereby state institutions such as the army or police inflict violence on civilian populations, as was the case in Nicaragua and Chechnya (and by the US via the Contras). This last point is particularly missing from the discourse on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. All attacks on Israelis, whether inside the 1967 border or outside, whether targeting soldiers or civilians, are dubbed terrorist attacks. But dropping a one-ton bomb from an Israeli airplane on a five-story Palestinian house, in which a militant may be present, knowing full well that dozens of civilians will be killed, is hardly ever described in Western media as terrorism.

Dorit Naaman, 2007

#dorit naaman #palestine #readings #imperialism

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In a constant state of “mrow :3” and “mrrrrrp” and “pspsps” at big cats that would not hesitate to eat me for for lunch

#in a past life I was a Buddhist monk who chose to get eaten by a tiger #hashtag vegan moments ig #mine

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(by Harman Singh Heer)

#panther #would you snuggle with this toebean having friend? or are you a coward?

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they don’t teach people with EDs how to actually respond to diet talk because to do so would mean cultivating and embracing rage. you can’t do that within a medico-psychiatric industry that mandates compliance at all costs. I would very much like to start a workshop for channeling & expressing rage, including and especially toward carceral institutions and authorities, for ppl with EDs… like I want to teach you how to terrify your doctor

#eating pizza isn’t enough we need to kill fatphobes with hammers

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JOHAN LAURENTZ JENSEN

#art #queued

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@myalgias

꧁★꧂

#wanna frolick sometime? #sugarbunnies #plush #gentle

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Head full of thorns 🫀🩸🩸

#illustration #art #di #body horror

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渡田新町公園, WATARIDA SHINMACHI Park by Daishi Naruse

#flower #queued

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This bloodbath has gone on for far too long. At the start of this aggression, the school year had barely just started. The academic year ends in just a month. Everyone, from first graders to university seniors, have lost an entire year at least. I say at least considering even if there is a ceasefire today, Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.

You absolutely cannot mistake the intent behind all of this.

#palestine

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Hiiiii what are we reading this month? What are our eyes doing? (Also you were right about Things Have Gotten Worse... I liked the short story itself but the other two in the collection were Very Weak, boo!)

helloooo! so some current reads include

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

and I'm aiming to start

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

Cripping Intersex by Celeste Orr

And here is my newsletter where I round up my 5-star reads from April! :D

How about you?

#yeah things have gotten worse was so disappointing...horror novellas can be so good and this one just flopped #ask #fluoresensitive #book rec

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I don't know how people can still listen to Eminem after he killed all of those people for his own sick amusement.

#saw

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The moral of Matilda is that if you’re autistic enough you can destroy your enemies with your mind

#about #she's my girl for real.