Community & Liberation
queer, activism, belonging
Community & Liberation
“It used to be that people were born as part of a community, and had to find their place as individuals. Now people are born as individuals, and have to find their community.” – Bill Bishop, the author of The Big Sort:Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
What Does 'Community' Mean?, the Atlantic
Heteronormativity in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young People
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I mean…If I had a dollar for every time someone told me not to make “being gay your whole personality” I’d have, like, $35. 🙄
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instagram.com“we should remember that giving can be transformative for the helper.... By not asking for help when you need it, you are blocking that flow.”
― Mia Birdsong, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
― Mia Birdsong, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Mia Birdsong Quotes (Author of How We Show Up)
“Being on the receiving end of harmful oppressions is decidedly and specifically horrible. But wielding them has its own corrupting and denigrating impact on the imposer. This is important to understand, not because it makes those who hold privilege and power “victims” or somehow as equally harmed as those who experience racism, sexism, and... See more
Mia Birdsong Quotes (Author of How We Show Up)
Queerplatonic relationships: Not friendship, not dating, but a secret third thing
Archer Magazinearchermagazine.com.au
(She) was enthusiastically heterosexual.
—Eccentric Lives, The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries.
queer not as in being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as in being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live
— bell hooks
“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
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bell hooks
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bell hooks