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Turn Attitude Into Action
It's time to move beyond despair and operationalize our outrage.
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Dec 8, 2024
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Now You Know
My lovely Queerlings, if you want to know how a government will treat us, just watch how it treats people who are not citizens. Because...
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Dec 3, 2024
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The Truths Of Our Histories
This holiday season in the U.S. we have witnessed a white reconciliation across the spectra of (cis) gender, generation, and class, which...
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Nov 28, 2024
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Our Tender Hearts
Gentleness is no shortcoming.
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Sep 23, 2024
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Our First Bullies
It's 2024 and somehow there are still little Queerlings all over the world learning to fear their families above all else...
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Jul 28, 2024
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Songs of Patriarchy
The fantasy of a homogeneously "straight" society is just an ode to the accumulation and preservation of power and wealth, as passed down...
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Jul 13, 2024
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Monetized Grievance
The straight grievance industry was designed to monetize bigotry against Queer people for the accumulation and hording of...
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Jun 15, 2024
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Our Chosen Light
We rarely experience true absences of light. Most of our lives are spent on a spectrum, where we can savor the subtle gradients if we...
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May 12, 2024
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The Power Of Vulnerability
There's strength in our tears, and hard hearts hold no sway.
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May 1, 2024
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Patterns Of Pain
Getting lost in life's might-have-been's is a sure way to create more of life's never-was's.
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Mar 18, 2024
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Let Them Flow
What are tears if not the redemptive release of prior expectations?
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Mar 13, 2024
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The Castaways
Do you ever think of them? The castaways. Those of us kicked out of our families. Left to fend for ourselves as we navigate this brutal...
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Feb 20, 2024
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So Close Yet So Far
It might be that you don't know just how close you are to the other side of suffering and the vital energy of renewal.
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Feb 3, 2024
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Times Gone By
When someone tells us "things were different then," what Queer people often hear is that you think folks in the distant past were in some...
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Dec 27, 2023
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Holiday Angst
When you learn that even in this day and age some Queer people have nowhere to turn over the holidays, what do you then feel compelled to...
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Dec 22, 2023
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Thanksgiving
Let's move beyond celebrating the colonizer mythology of Pilgrims and shared labor, as we remember the apocalyptic U.S. history of...
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Nov 23, 2023
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Denial And Delusion
The far-reaching effects of straight supremacy mean that Queer people have long known pretense preserves false hope where authenticity...
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Oct 27, 2023
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Become Their Refuge
Get up and go be someone's soft landing.
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Oct 18, 2023
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Sweet Shelter
When life provides too few tender mercies, seek refuge in a love that sustains you.
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Sep 12, 2023
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The Sound Of Silence
Seek refuge in the silence of those sacred places that feed your soul.
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Jun 3, 2023
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