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As writer and activist Shon Faye puts it, “Queer is about removing labels and replacing them with a question. It is a side eye and a challenge back to mainstream society and politics. It says, ‘I don’t know the answer, but why are you asking the question?’”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
“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.
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A professor plays “Queer Theory Bingo” with students to demonstrate how a defense of pedophilia was foundational to the movement
All while activists shout him down for “hate”
If you’ve never seen this video watch it now👇
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Auron MacIntyrex.comThe first drag queen and gay liberation activist, you didn’t know about 🏳️🌈
Share his story and let his legacy live on ❤️ #pride #lgbtq #activist #queer
safespace_vidsinstagram.comRobin Sweeney, an editor of The Second Coming: A Leatherdyke Reader (1996), along with Patrick (Pat) Califia, talking about identity and labels in Michelle Handelman’s documentary BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995).
⛓️💥 “And once I can get that across to people, that I’m an effeminate butch bi... See more
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#RestInPower Sonya Massey.
And all of the Black trans women and girls we’ve lost so far in 2024.
Shannon Boswell.
Michelle Henry.
Tayy Dior.
Kita Bee.
Starr Brown.
Diamond Brigman.
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𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗸𝘂 𝗕𝗼𝘆𝘀 by Jano Williams & Kim Longinotto
This iconic documentary from 1995 follows the lives of three “onabe” or transgender men who work as hosts at a nightclub for female clients.
Following them at home and at work, they speak openly about their... See more
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