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Jun 17, 2022
Gendered Introductions
Gender is neither a title nor an honorific. When someone says "Mr.," "Mrs.," "Miss," etc. all I hear is patriarchy.
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Jun 12, 2022
Let's Work Smarter
It's far more efficient and effective to convince our allies to convert their attitude into action in the dismantling of straight...
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Jun 11, 2022
The Closets We Create
We create "closets" to hide away those parts of ourselves we cannot afford to share, until one day we realize our lives have become a...
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Jun 9, 2022
You're "Too Gay"
I think "gay" is a culture based on a variety of sexual orientations (homosexual, bi-, pan-, etc.), rather than...
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May 27, 2022
What Are We Willing To Risk
Too many allies pat themselves on the back for practicing tolerance, without actually risking anything to change the status quo.
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May 22, 2022
Fun With Gender
I don't know who needs to hear this, but gender is just a social construct designed to preserve the patriarchy.
That means...
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May 21, 2022
A Place For Us
Find somewhere you can walk hand-in-hand -- unbothered and unburdened with straight supremacy. Even if just for a moment, even if just...
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May 20, 2022
The Inconvenient Truth
Claiming you love and support queer people while voting against our civil rights is just a convenient way to burnish your reputation with...
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May 17, 2022
Love Knows No Gender
The way we gender human connection as "feminine," teach each other that anything feminine is inferior, and then wonder why we...
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May 5, 2022
Unapologetically Us
For queer people, walking together hand in hand is both our simplest display of affection and our foundational form of political...
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May 2, 2022
Reparations Come At A Cost
It's almost like some of us think we might pay for the past systemic suffering of others without our present pain or inconvenience.
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Apr 27, 2022
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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