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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- 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 15
Monetized Grievance
The straight grievance industry was designed to monetize bigotry against Queer people for the accumulation and hording of...
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- Jun 12
Say It Loud
When people wonder why we broadcast our sexual orientation, what of many of them are really wondering is why we're not more grateful for...
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- May 31
Give Until It Hurts
Generosity practiced through pain is a special kind of healing work.
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- May 24
Bigotry Is A Choice
If you accept that there are no queerphobic people, just queerphobic choices, it means that even gay guys can traffic in straight supremacy.
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- May 16
It's Here For The Long Haul
Straight supremacy is unlikely to simply fade away, because most people rarely share power out of mere principle alone.
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- May 12
Our Chosen Light
We rarely experience true absences of light. Most of our lives are spent on a spectrum, where we can savor the subtle gradients if we...
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- May 1
The Power Of Vulnerability
There's strength in our tears, and hard hearts hold no sway.
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- Mar 18
Patterns Of Pain
Getting lost in life's might-have-been's is a sure way to create more of life's never-was's.
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