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was thinking about this yesterday.
View Larger QPOC Response to Toronto’s Grid Magazine article “Beyond Gay”
They are —> Still Fierce, Still Strugglin’
“…how about we move ‘beyond white?’ i’m tired of the white, middle-class gay experience trumping all other queer experiences in this city. many of us do not have access to this easy peasy ‘post-mo’ lifestyle, written about in the ‘beyond gay’ article. despite this, we still do so much awesome shit in toronto. recognize us!”
Fuck yeah!
QPOC supremacy tbh
brown queers. this is gorgeous/legendary
You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist? And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.
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- Junot Diaz (via Tatiana Richards)
oh my goodness this is beautifully relevant. humongously sad and inspiring at the same time, too
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BE OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITIES THAT ARE CREATED WHEN WE BEGIN TO CONCEPTUALIZE GENDER AS A GALAXY AND NOT ONLY AS A FIXED BINARY
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male privilege is being able to say that breastfeeding in public is gross, unnecessary and should be banned, and then being seen in public with no shirt on with your hands down your pants and have no one comment on it.
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