Think Through Your Contingencies
My lovely Queerlings, the audacity of the naïveté I’m witnessing in some of you is jarring. Neither bluster nor denial nor buyer’s...
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Nov 10
Make A Plan
Some of us Queer people are too young to remember that many in our community famously did not survive the Reagan presidency, by some...
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Nov 6
The Coming Storm
Queer people do not have the luxury of grief. We each of us need a plan. The clock is ticking and it is so much later than we think. We...
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Nov 3
Limiting Constructs
Sexual orientation (including heterosexuality, straightness, etc.) was invented in the 1860s by white cis male eugenicists who wanted to...
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Oct 27
Advancement Through Joy
It's Queer culture that ennobles us, not Queer oppression. Our suffering just gratifies the sadistic impulses of those who think they...
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Oct 17
Our Messy Realities
When someone says they love you but not your "choices," what they're really saying is that they love the reality of you less than their...
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Oct 16
Elections Have Consequences
It's a fundamentally unloving act to vote against someone's civil rights, even if only inadvertently.
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Oct 12
Vote Like Your Life Depends On It
Many suicides of trans people in the U.S. result from the public policy choices of our elected officials. Remember that when you vote.
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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 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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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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