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
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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- Sep 13
Shared Vulnerability
Man box culture dictates that vulnerability accrues to some strange perceived tactical disadvantage, but queer people know that sharing...
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- Sep 11
Words Matter
What is said can never truly be unsaid. And years hence, long after we have found forgiveness, we will never really be able to forget...
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- Sep 1
Proximal Power
What queerphobic choices are you excusing, and what are you getting out of the exchange?
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- Aug 4
We Stand Together
Just about every day we each make or witness some sort of queerphobic choice, and then excuse it, deny it, or look the other way...
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- Aug 2
The Unwinnable Rat Race
Capitalism keeps us in crisis to preserve power and sustain the status quo.
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- Jul 29
What Will You Risk?
Some "allies" are more interested in changing the way they feel than changing actual laws. But queer pride does not exist just to help...
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- Jul 26
What We Project
Tell me who your god hates, and I'll show you some neglected and unloved part of you desperate to be cherished and adored.
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- Jun 13
The Wealth Of Acceptance
Pride reveals the poverty in being loved for who we are not.
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- Apr 21
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 18
What Will We Require
Institutionalized queerphobia exists in large part because our allies allow it to.
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- Jan 2
Summon What's True
Let's call forth the courage to embody the depths of our yearning and the hunger in our hearts.
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- Dec 12, 2021
We Are All In This Together
Unfortunately queerphobia will likely persist until straight people see its adverse impacts on their lives as well. Bigotry is not just...
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- Dec 9, 2021
The Forest for the Trees
Never underestimate the power of denial, especially when the truth comes at the expense of immediate gratification.
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- Oct 21, 2021
The Power of Now
If we live our lives wrapped in nostalgia for what never was, we lose touch with the essential majesty of all that is and might yet be.
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- Sep 11, 2021
The Last Resort
Violence is just another way of saying, 'I'm all out of ideas.'
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- Sep 8, 2021
Harness Your Outrage
If we don't claim our own anger, others will. And they will use it against us -- often with a profit motive in mind.
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- Aug 30, 2021
Ride The Wave
There will be times when things come crashing down around us. But resistance and avoidance typically exacerbate our pain...
