We Require Accountability
Laughing at others with impunity is a license to dehumanize and a precursor to violence.
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Apr 21, 2022
What We Do Defines Us
Every day I think of those who bullied and tormented me as a child, wonder how those choices might have distorted the contours of...
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Apr 20, 2022
Worth The Risk
Gentle public displays of affection is the simplest risk we can take to carve our place in this world and bolster self-worth.
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Apr 18, 2022
What Will We Require
Institutionalized queerphobia exists in large part because our allies allow it to.
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Apr 10, 2022
Delight In Our Differences
For some queer children, our first bullies were our families. But it doesn't have to be this way! When we acknowledge that diversity is...
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Mar 18, 2022
True To Who We Are
The tyranny of the majority is wholly self-satisfied and unbothered -- preening in their privilege and basking in their bigotry. Trying...
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Mar 3, 2022
Our Tacit Phobias
Straight people who "aren't queerphobic" are part of the reason queerphobia is alive and well today. Many people have covert contracts...
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Feb 25, 2022
Stealing Our Power
When it comes to state-sponsored queerphobia, the cruelty is the point in that it creates a permission structure for the wholescale theft...
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Feb 23, 2022
Love Is The Antidote
Homophobia is intrinsically violent, but acceptance and celebration are intrinsically loving.
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Feb 13, 2022
It's All Good
One way to resist straight supremacy is to cultivate a sacredness to all our sexual urges, needs, and desires.
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Dec 20, 2021
Two Opposing Forces
It's impossible to simultaneously act as an ally while also enabling straight supremacy.
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Dec 15, 2021
It's Up To Us
Don't be part of the permission structure for prejudice. Let's leverage our privilege to lift up others by meeting bias head on...
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Dec 12, 2021
We Are All In This Together
Unfortunately queerphobia will likely persist until straight people see its adverse impacts on their lives as well. Bigotry is not just...
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Dec 2, 2021
Just Getting Started
To all of our lovely queer allies out there: your work of dismantling systemic queer oppression is just beginning.
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Nov 29, 2021
It's Up To You
When someone confides queerphobic behavior with you, what what they're really telling you is you're their safe space. You can then either...
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Nov 27, 2021
Putting It On The Line
Part of our work is to make "polite" bigotry socially unacceptable. We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront prejudice in the...
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Nov 19, 2021
Unconditional Love
If you're not ready to unequivocally celebrate and love a queer child, then maybe you're not yet ready to be a parent.
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Nov 17, 2021
The Lie of Manliness
Feminine men are just as "manly" as masculine men. Our flavors of gender expression often differ from our gender orientation, and we owe...
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Nov 10, 2021
Masculine Men Can Be Queer Too
You don't owe anyone femininity simply to appease their narrow view of what queer might mean. You're welcome in the queer community...
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