Showing posts with label putting the bad back in tribadism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label putting the bad back in tribadism. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Discuss!
Did peoples see The Kids are All Right, the new lezzie movie? I saw it last night with CC. If you saw it, what did you think? I am curious!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Judith Butler Declines Berlin Pride's "Civil Courage" Award
Judith Butler declined the Berlin Pride Parade's "Civil Courage" award in a speech here in Berlin less than a week ago in a call for gay pride movements to fight racism and islamophobia.
Butler said that she declined the award in order to distance herself from the explicit racism of the organizers of the giant Berlin gay pride event (known here as Christopher Street Day or CSD) and their failure to deal with racism in their movement, including racism against Muslims here in Berlin. Butler also decried the commercialism of the pride event. Her action has, as you can imagine, caused a kerfuffle here, but sadly hasn't gotten any coverage in the U.S. as far as I can tell.
I say: Way to go, Judy B.!
Butler suggested that the "Civil Courage" prize be given instead to these Berlin groups:
GLADT (Turkish Gays and Lesbians)
LesMigraS (an organization of lesbian migrants and black lesbians against violence and discrimination)
SUSPECT (a group of queers against violence, racism, and homophobia)
ReachOut (an organization for victims of right-wing, racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and transphobic violence)
Transgenialer CSD (the alternative Pride parade)
Here is an English press release from SUSPECT and and a video of part of Butler's speech (with English subtitles--she apparently spoke in German.)
Angela Davis's statement of support for Butler.
Transgenialer CSD's 2009 logo:
Butler said that she declined the award in order to distance herself from the explicit racism of the organizers of the giant Berlin gay pride event (known here as Christopher Street Day or CSD) and their failure to deal with racism in their movement, including racism against Muslims here in Berlin. Butler also decried the commercialism of the pride event. Her action has, as you can imagine, caused a kerfuffle here, but sadly hasn't gotten any coverage in the U.S. as far as I can tell.
I say: Way to go, Judy B.!
Butler suggested that the "Civil Courage" prize be given instead to these Berlin groups:
GLADT (Turkish Gays and Lesbians)
LesMigraS (an organization of lesbian migrants and black lesbians against violence and discrimination)
SUSPECT (a group of queers against violence, racism, and homophobia)
ReachOut (an organization for victims of right-wing, racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and transphobic violence)
Transgenialer CSD (the alternative Pride parade)
Here is an English press release from SUSPECT and and a video of part of Butler's speech (with English subtitles--she apparently spoke in German.)
Angela Davis's statement of support for Butler.
Transgenialer CSD's 2009 logo:
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Putting the *bad* back in tribadism
Nice, friendly reader may remember the 1000-page book, E.F.W. Eberhard's 1924 The Erotic Foundations of Women's Emancipation (Die Frauenemanzipation und Ihre Erotischen Grundlagen). I took lots of digital photographs of it in 2007 and merrily imagined myself reading it later.
Then it seemed for a long time like in fact, I would not read it later.
But yesterday I started reading chapter 6. And yes, the book is indeed the hoot that its chapter titles promised it would be.
Chapter 5: Masturbation and the Women's Emancipation Movement
Chapter 6: Tribadism and the Women's Emancipation Movement
Chapter 7: Sadism and the Women's Emancipation Movement
You couldn't publish certain descriptions of sex acts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even if you were a scientist of sex. The sexologists got around this by putting them in Latin. E.F.W. Eberhard quotes them a lot.
The thing is, you can often tell what they mean, even if you do not speak Latin (or if your Latin teacher did not go over this vocabulary in high school):
frictio genitalium mutua (p. 538)
Which is good, because the online Latin dictionary run by Notre Dame University is no help.
Then it seemed for a long time like in fact, I would not read it later.
But yesterday I started reading chapter 6. And yes, the book is indeed the hoot that its chapter titles promised it would be.
Chapter 5: Masturbation and the Women's Emancipation Movement
Chapter 6: Tribadism and the Women's Emancipation Movement
Chapter 7: Sadism and the Women's Emancipation Movement
You couldn't publish certain descriptions of sex acts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, even if you were a scientist of sex. The sexologists got around this by putting them in Latin. E.F.W. Eberhard quotes them a lot.
The thing is, you can often tell what they mean, even if you do not speak Latin (or if your Latin teacher did not go over this vocabulary in high school):
frictio genitalium mutua (p. 538)
Which is good, because the online Latin dictionary run by Notre Dame University is no help.
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