Knowing What You Can Afford
When we Queer people spend time with you, we often monitor your behavior and gauge how much of our cultural identity you can afford in...
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Aug 24, 2023
The Strength Of Our Tears
Life outside the brutal constraints of the straight-imposed "man box" culture has meant that many of us Queer people have long known...
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Aug 14, 2023
What To Watch
Queer people know well the milestones of fascism, which is why we are so prepared to fight them at every turn...
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Jun 20, 2023
Playing It Small
When did we learn to ask so little from life? Hoping against hope that if we play it small enough, straight people might deign to let us...
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Apr 29, 2023
Lonely Sanctimoniousness
When we fixate solely on our mutually-disagreeable differences, what we're really doing is building cases for our ongoing...
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Apr 26, 2023
Taking Care Of Each Other
It's easy to get lost in our own privilege and adversity -- forgetting that there are queer people all over the world fighting for their...
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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 15, 2023
The Limits Of Labels
False dichotomies force us to choose identities at the expense of authenticity, but the reality is our whole is greater than the...
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Mar 9, 2023
Queer Kids Are Precious
Look into their eyes, then turn your back, cast them out, and deny them love, all because you fear they might be queer. And then just try...
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Feb 25, 2023
We Are Awakening
"Woke" is just the new socially acceptable catchphrase for the n-word, the b-word, and the f-word, used by confederates...
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Feb 10, 2023
A Matter Of Choice
It's high time we each made a commitment to start loving the "worst" versions of ourselves.
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Dec 13, 2022
Cost Benefit Analysis
The costs of the closet are manifold, so coming out is both an act of defiant self-preservation and gift to the world.
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Nov 29, 2022
True Courage
From "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee:
<Mrs. Dubose was a sick, cantankerous old woman who would berate Jem and Scout whenever...
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Nov 19, 2022
The Wasteland
There's nothing bleak about the natural world and the only wastelands are of our own creation.
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Nov 3, 2022
Straight Consequences
Society's concoction of "straightness" as a sexual orientation/culture has created real consequences for queer people, which is of course...
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Oct 12, 2022
Illusions of Straightness
Left unfettered, human hearts run wild and free of their own accord, and desire is both a mystical and messy business...
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Sep 26, 2022
Resistance Is Never Futile
Weird how some get angry when queer people aren't more grateful for straight supremacy...
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Sep 16, 2022
Sew What You Reap
We fear what we might feel compelled to do if we acknowledged our complex shared stories, in part because we're all so weary of this...
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