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“In an ideal world, queer, trans, and nonbinary people wouldn’t have to perform in order to survive. But we do what we have to (and a few of us really love it!). sometimes the only ways that those of us who refuse the binaries and templates of our times can be understood is within the role of a performer - as goddess, witch, entertainer, or muse. p
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Throughout ages, across continents and cultures, gender fluidity and the concept of a third gender consistently reappears: the hijras in India; the Meti in Nepal; the Fa’afafine in Samoa; the ‘two-spirit’ people in North America. They are not the exception, we are. Western tradition has constructed a scientific mythology on gender binarism. And it
... See moreEgle Gerulaityte • Guna Yala: The Islands Where Women Make the Rules
It has taken me seven or so years to realise that I don’t much care for being a woman: that what I fell in love with at the first university women’s campaign meeting where I realised the word trans applied to my queerness, was being a dyke among dykes. It’s no small thing that my embarrassing Lacanian mirror moment happened just after I’d been fuck
... See moreRowan Davis • How Do Autistic Butch Trans Women Cruise?
Growing up gay and disabled, I was taught not to want much, to feel grateful for whatever came my way. A live-in boyfriend was above and beyond what I should’ve dared dream for myself. Meanwhile, all around me, straight white guys were taking giant chunks out of life and leaving no leftovers for the rest of us. They see what they want, they get it,
... See moreRyan O'Connell • Just by Looking at Him: A Novel
Here is a blessing I wrote for a friend who had lost 100 lbs and was struggling with the change:
A blessing for a friend to offer her body
For the ways you have carried me through every day since I was born, I offer my gratitude.
For the pleasure you have given me, I praise you.
For the pain you have endured for me, I respect you.
For the protection you
... See moreI 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
“Had they had the surgery?” my father asked and I tried to explain that the question is no longer allowed, that we accept people as they see themselves.