Our Tender Hearts
Gentleness is no shortcoming.
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Jul 28
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 13
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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Jun 15
Monetized Grievance
The straight grievance industry was designed to monetize bigotry against Queer people for the accumulation and hording of...
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May 12
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 1
The Power Of Vulnerability
There's strength in our tears, and hard hearts hold no sway.
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Mar 18
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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Feb 20
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 3
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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Dec 27, 2023
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 22, 2023
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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Nov 23, 2023
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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Oct 27, 2023
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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Sep 12, 2023
Sweet Shelter
When life provides too few tender mercies, seek refuge in a love that sustains you.
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Jun 3, 2023
The Sound Of Silence
Seek refuge in the silence of those sacred places that feed your soul.
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Apr 21, 2023
Growing Up Queer
Imagine that even though you've heard whispers the world might indeed be larger than you've yet born witness, you've never actually seen...
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Mar 20, 2023
There's No Place Like It
Wherever we seek refuge is where we what we call, "home."
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