Tobi Olumurewa
@tobae
Tobi Olumurewa
on cyberbunk, solarpunk, and soilpunk
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a... See more
sometimes, i miss not having to explain my moods. i miss the parts of myself that didn’t need to be named, analyzed, journaled. i miss crying without categorizing it. i miss sadness that just existed, without needing to be rewritten into a growth arc. i miss the version of myself who didn’t feel like her inner life had to be coherent to be real. be
... See moresometimes, in the small, secret part of myself where i tuck away my worst impulses, i wished they had gone just a little further, wronged me just a little bit more clearly, because maybe then i wouldn’t feel quite so crazy about hurting so much. without laws broken or lines crossed, women’s pain is madness.
— Rayne Fisher-Quann Nov 21, 2021
Male validation being the most delicious intoxicating and addictive drug. Even when you grow to hate it. Grow to loathe the very men providing it to the point of discarding their humanity in your mind. You still want it and definitely feel like you need it.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson