Permission To Belong
If we wait to be invited into the spaces that straight white cis men control, we will merely be at each other's throats scrambling for...
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Aug 20
The Best Byproduct
When our struggles are rooted in joy, togetherness is the inevitable outcome.
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Aug 18
Every Body
What we mean when we say everybody is beautiful is every body. As in each body. As in yours.
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Aug 11
Delightfully Messy
Straightness is a social construct designed to help some people steal, accumulate, and horde power. The real truth is that nature is...
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Aug 7
Our Shared Queer Stories
Shared facts are a prerequisite for shared accountability. Which is why some people actively try to prevent us from sharing Queer...
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Aug 5
Conditioned Helplessness
Allowing yourself to be conditioned into learned helplessness is like surrendering in advance. And when straight supremacy is the...
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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 25
Drive And Determination
When you meet Queer people in the workplace and think we seem unduly stressed, it's often because we're well aware we must be better and...
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Jul 23
Don't Be Fooled
There are two things christofascists hate:
• Being called queerphobic
• Queer people
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Jul 22
They Can Afford To Bear Witness
My sweet Queerlings, though they might pretend otherwise, I promise you that straight people can emotionally afford to see us flush with...
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Jul 15
Still Here
Like it or not, there's nothing anyone can do to prevent us Queer people from existing.
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Jul 14
Loving Freely
Where we live shouldn't limit our right to laugh freely in the arms of our loved ones.
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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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Jul 3
The Price Of Togetherness
The absence of oppression does not indicate the presence of liberation.
It's going to take equity and reparations to make amends for...
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Jun 30
Let Them Have It
Telling people how they should protest is tantamount to telling them why they are oppressed.
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Jun 28
Smash Queer Oppression
"Discretion" and "decorum" redound to the status quo. That's why Stonewall had to be a violent uprising.
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Jun 25
Direct Action
If we want to dismantle our systems of straight supremacy, we must be as deliberate at addressing them as we've been in creating them.
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Jun 23
Queer History Lessons
The real reason some straight people are trying to prevent Queer history from being taught in public schools is that they don't want...
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Jun 20
It's The Default
Every moment we're not dismantling our systems of straight supremacy we're enacting them.
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