Tag: gay marriage
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Old enough to fire a gun
It’s alright to feel like a fat child in a pushchair Old enough to run Old enough to fire a gun With the spate of school and children shootings, Everything Everything’s critical view of modern life and alienation gains a new perspective, with children as young as 3, 5 or 11 killing their siblings in…
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Cultural Appropriation Police
Not often I post a response to an article here, well, it always seems a little like hearing one-side of a conversation. But their comment system relies on Facebook (!), and given the fact I block the shit out of big bad Google and Fakebook I can’t actually comment. This article on ‘The Difference Between…
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The New Separatism: Assimilation, Appropriation and Authenticity
I love this article by Julia Serano ‘Considering Trans and Queer Appropriation’ partly because it ties together many things I’ve been thinking about from very different spheres, as any good article should. Mostly about white hip hop and pop, and the whole Macklemore vs LE1F controversy as well as the probably now forgotten Miley Cyrus…
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I can’t change even if I wanted to…My love, she keeps me warm
I had seen the video but never connected it, well I did to gay marriage, but not the personal side. The amazing singer? Mary Lambert, I guess she’s singing to her girlfriend, Rachel. Mackelmore, more than a one-hit wonder, has a gay uncle (well uncles – hey they legally multiply now! 😉 and talked about…
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Love and it’s polar opposite
And I filled my head with so much shit And I dreamed and I dreamed of it Of love and it’s opposite Long white dress There’s been a lot written and talked about gay marriage over this week (HRC? Seriously? Read this) but I’ve always had a difficult relationship with marriage, be it gay or…
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Will somebody think of the children?!?!
We’re the Destroyers Of Civilisation and the Bringers of Total Doom, you know…