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I love queerness so much as a beautiful and belligerent tradition of people whose sense of love and beauty and justice and art and adventure and family is too expansive for the examples that were set for us. But rather than keep quiet, we insist on something truer for ourselves.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
what it might look like for us to prioritize and honor our friendships in a way that allows for a more expansive understanding of what friendship is. Nordgren writes that “relationship anarchy questions the idea that love is a limited resource that can only be real if restricted to a couple.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
He is, above all, a family man—and how he manages to juggle it all has always amazed me. Part of it is simple: The man does not consider himself even vaguely homosexual. Instead, he thinks of himself as sexual, as capable of sex with a cantaloupe as with a woman or a man. It’s a definition that deals in quantity and athleticism and has little, if a
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