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I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
When I allowed my language and my views to change—informed by wanting to be a better friend, colleague, partner, community member for the people around me—I could feel my heart start to change, too. I wondered (in typical white, neoliberal fashion) why it was so hard for people to embrace complexity rather than conforming to binary ways of thought.
Religiously Blonde • Is Religion Violent?
Human meant cruelty as well as love, human was protecting one’s own at the expense of others. Human also meant having the capacity to change.
Nicola Griffith • Ammonite
flinch. I believe my father saw this in me and did what he could to drown out whatever primordial voice had told me to fold up my personhood into something small and negligible.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
know they’re all right. Find ways to counter the attitudes toward homosexuality that your profession has inculcated in both heterosexuals and homosexuals.”37 He was given a standing ovation.
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
"It's become a courageous act to love who you are."
Duke Stump
Duke Stump
DO Lectures • Tweet
Coming out in the religious south was one thing, and I’ve met a few folks with aligning stories to my own. But there has also been the coming out process within the gay community. I still live near where I grew up, and on any given occasion, the majority of my friends are straight. The geographic isolation of living in a rural community for me has ... See more
S.G. Goodman • S.G. Goodman On The Continuous Process Of Coming Out
“There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.” —
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick