Month: November 2013
Make two lists, one of queers you know who have died, and a second of queer funerals you’ve attended. How do your lists compare? My first list is a whole lot longer than the second. What I’ve learned about queer funerals is – they don’t exist. In the worst-case scenario, we are forced back into the closet at our funerals. At best, our deaths become political platforms for public education and human rights lobbying. They become measures of the work that still needs to be done in this world. I am proud to be a part of a community that, in the face of death, rolls up its sleeves and says ‘We’ve got a job to do’. At the same time, at risk of sounding enfeebled, it’s just not fair.
“How to Bury Our Dead“ from How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn. A must-read. (via queerbookclub)
Above, the eye of God is dreaming us. Below, we are Air and Earth and Mist and Fire.
~ Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead ༺♥༻
When I get bored I redesign old Red Action stickers into Vegan Anti-Fascist ones. For no particular reason apart from the fact that anti-fascism should be a core tenant in any radical vegan’s politics!
Hitler was a vegetarian.
Ave Babalon
One of my fave Henry Rollins’ quotes, brought to cartoon form by awesome artist Gavin Aung Than
Fixed and reposted this so it’s big enough to read now.