soy tortillero y capitan

It’s nice out so I sat down at this bench on a pedestrian friendly street in my neighborhood...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:24:30 -0400

It’s nice out so I sat down at this bench on a pedestrian friendly street in my neighborhood to eat my to-go food and drink my iced mocha. all these people keep walking by me and staring like they’ve never seen a faggot on a bench before.

girlsgetbusyzine: “Femme isn’t frail” badge

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:46:58 -0400

girlsgetbusyzine:

“Femme isn’t frail” badge

sapphrikah: Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:46 -0400

sapphrikah:

Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis” (via “MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up” on autostraddle)

heartdashbeats: This week on Heartbeats: Jackie and Berlin!...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:30:11 -0400

heartdashbeats:

This week on Heartbeats: Jackie and Berlin! <3

Even though Jackie and me grew up in the same city, I became aware of her awesomeness on the internet after we both had moved away (thank u, tumblr). She has definitely been an inspiration for me as a fat woman of colour navigating whiteness and fat phobia, not just through solidarity, but also because she is unapologetically who she is which has been my biggest struggle, hence this blog project. Jackie is also a co-founder of It Gets Fatter, “a body positivity project started by fat queer people of colour, for fat people of colour!” I would highly recommend checking out their videos on Vimeo.

Joining Jackie on this crush-worthy post is her boyfriend, Berlin Reed. He is a chef who just published a really great book called The Ethical Butcher: How Thoughtful Eating Can Change Your World (it’s on Amazon if you can’t access a local shop.) His bio describes him as “a food warrior and radical food theorist bent on decolonizing cuisine.” SWOON. Catch him on tour right now!

On a very personal note: I can’t even tell you how special it was to photograph these two. I have never witnessed brown love like this, queer brown love. The experience made me want to keep searching for brown bodies to project out into the world. This is how we heal.

More photos and full interview on Heartbeats!

THESE QTies are looking SO GOOD! <3
YAY BROWN LOVE!

basically.

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:50:01 -0400

basically.

nattayo: #gold #scarf #vintage #menstyle #michaelkors T.I...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:36:11 -0400

nattayo:

#gold #scarf #vintage #menstyle #michaelkors T.I Nathan

beach trio for day four with @sophiehamann + @rob658

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:18:50 -0400

beach trio for day four with @sophiehamann + @rob658

beach day numero cuatro with my boo @rob658

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:16:44 -0400

beach day numero cuatro with my boo @rob658

flamingo style

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:26:58 -0400

flamingo style

refreshing shower, rose quartz plugs, rescue remedy, and giving myself a tarot reading as self-care...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:20:54 -0400

refreshing shower, rose quartz plugs, rescue remedy, and giving myself a tarot reading as self-care and guidance before seeing my dad for the first time in almost 2 years.

Shit storm's brewin' (justifiably) in response to the DSM-V's publication

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:10:56 -0400

Psychiatrists Under Fire in Mental Health Battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/psychiatrists-under-fire-mental-health

Psychiatry Divided As Mental Health Bible Denounced
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23487-psychiatry-divided-as-mental-health-bible-denounced.html

DSM-V Is Guide Not Bible — Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201212/dsm-5-is-guide-not-bible-ignore-its-ten-worst-changes?page=2

NIMH vs DSM-V: No One Wins
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/nimh-vs-dsm-5-no-one-wins_b_3252323.html

The New Criteria for Mental Disorders
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-new-criteria-for-mental-disorders.html

mom takes her BOGO shopping seriously...

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:08:29 -0400

mom takes her BOGO shopping seriously #andherpistachiohäagen-dazs

beach day three. cheeseballz.

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:22:31 -0400

beach day three. cheeseballz.

"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:07:26 -0400

“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.””

- Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)

welcum to Miami

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:26:57 -0400

welcum to Miami

got to hang with my all-time fave ladies all day at the beach....

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:43:35 -0400

got to hang with my all-time fave ladies all day at the beach. I’m one lucky guy! #familyguy

beach day #2 (on my way out) // photo by @sophiehamann

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:38:51 -0400

beach day #2 (on my way out) // photo by @sophiehamann

pussyharvest: You know who Le1f is not fucking with? White...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:37:24 -0400

pussyharvest:

You know who Le1f is not fucking with? White people.

my sister’s a babe

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:36:04 -0400

my sister’s a babe

white supremacy reigns supreme in social work school

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:51:00 -0400

I am so sick and tired of receiving evaluations in school marking me as “moderate” or “level appropriate” (as opposed to “advanced”) in categories like “Ability to address and respond to issues of oppression and racial, ethnic and cultural diversity” simply because your white people definitions are adverse to notions of actual racism and oppression and your ideas of diversity don’t include brown folks who respond to their struggles with anger and rage.