January 2012
30 posts
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green (via kittensatdaggersdrawn)
Custer Died for Your Sins: ALERT: JUST RECEIVED... →
queerfury:
BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool…
“Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out...”
– John Welwood (via queerfatfemme)
“While deviation by anyone from gender binaries is never openly embraced, there’s...”
– http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/01/27/talkin-bout-my-s-s-s-socialization/
“Growing up amidst male socialization when one’s gender identity is not...”
– Natalie Reed, Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization (via transfeminism)
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via miningbliss)
“Sun
make me whole again
to love
the shattered truths of me
spilling out like...”
– Audre Lorde (Chorus)
PILLOW TALK: How to make love to a trans person →
pillowtalkmpls:
by Gabe Moses Forget the images you’ve learned to attach To words like cock and clit, Chest and breasts. Break those words open Like a paramedic cracking ribs To pump blood through a failing heart. Push your hands inside. Get them messy. Scratch new definitions on the bones. Get rid of the old…
On the soft underbellies of mollusks...
“Sometimes I think the animal most closely related to the human being is a mollusk. We carry this calcified exterior, capable of warding off danger and protecting us from the elements. But turn us around, and there is the soft, vulnerable underbelly that we need to keep hidden: that we feel is our greatest weakness.
I think love is when you reveal your soft underbelly. And another ...
PILLOW TALK: By: Sabra Corcoran →
pillowtalkmpls:
Minneapolis a glossy cherry in a spoon The city cycles endlessly Hip dump dives Mississippi through stone arch … Guitars plucked on porches Nordeast streaming taps Lesbain DJ’s pump the jams Tattoo and leather covered skin Pierced rough looking faces Crowded body to body places …
The invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s...
"Of Being"--Denise Levertov
I know this happiness is provisional: the looming presences— great suffering, great fear— withdraw only into peripheral vision: but ineluctable this shimmering of wind in the blue leaves: this flood of stillness widening the lake of sky: this need to dance, this need to kneel: this mystery.
“First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity....”
– Emma Goldman (via ladycaloon)
“What we are wearing is political and has really high stakes! The conditions of...”
– - Dean Spade in an interview with Queer Couture (via majesticlegay)
So real. <3 Dean Spade
Why "Yes, but..." is the wrong response to... →
