May 1, 2011 • 5,974 notes • kari-shma
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)

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May 1, 2011 • 1,080 notes • alwaysreallyqueer

QUEER ENOUGH by Bianca James

I am queer. I am a “biological” woman who likes to fuck men.

I am genderqueer. I have a vagina and like to wear dresses.

Confused? I will try to explain, though most of the time it’s easier not to.

Invisible queerness. Invisible transgender. Passing privileges- but exactly who and what am I passing as? People tend to assume I am a lesbian by my short hair and swagger. They looked at me like I’m a dirty tissue when I say, no, I mostly sleep with men. Soiled in their eyes. Un-queered. So much for queer as an inclusive “umbrella” term.

I’ve had sex with women, and I probably will again. But it’s not lesbians that identify with, as much as I love them as friends. It’s gay men. Gay men, I understand like none other. They understand me. And I can’t help but be attracted to them, even if I don’t act on my desires. Instead, I find the men, who, like me, are queer but like to sleep with women. Men who prefer anal sex and fisting to straight intercourse, men who wear eyeliner and skirts, men who sit down to pee because they don’t give a damn about being perceived as being “manly enough.” Men who have been called “faggot” their whole lives for refusing to conform, when ironically, they love women.

And we exist, queerly heterosexual, guy dykes and girl fags in love.

I am a femme androgyne, a fagette, masculine in short hair and muscles, feminine in lipstick and heels. I am man and woman as one, and I refuse to pick a side. I love having big breasts and rocking a 10” strap on at the same time.

My man- self is a femme faggot. Johnny Weir ice dancing to Lady Gaga in roses and sequins. Oscar Wilde, a sissy genius in lavender silk with a poison pen.

My woman- self is a lusty warrior. Grace Jones in a James Bond film, power-lifting a full-grown man over her head in haute couture and heels. French novelist, burlesque dancer and body builder Colette, dressed in a 19th century men’s suit.

I am queer. I am genderqueer. I am femme.

And if you can’t wrap your brain around that, well, I wasn’t planning on sleeping with you anyway.

http://biancajames.blogspot.com/2011/04/queer-enough.html (via fuckyeahhotqueers)

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.

“I am queer. I am genderqueer. I am femme. And if you can’t wrap your brain around that, well, I wasn’t planning on sleeping with you anyway.” EXACTLY.

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“Instead, I find the men, who, like me, are queer but like to sleep with women. Men who prefer anal sex and fisting to straight intercourse, men who wear eyeliner and skirts, men who sit down to pee because they don’t give a damn about being perceived as being “manly enough.” Men who have been called “faggot” their whole lives for refusing to conform, when ironically, they love women.”

MY LIFE.

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March 24, 2011 • 28 notes • sexxxisbeautiful

It's My Pleasure...: I saw this poem somewhere a while ago and it may have been on here,...

sexisbeautiful:

I saw this poem somewhere a while ago and it may have been on here, but I can’t remember if if was or not, and I thought you’d enjoy it. I just came across it again while flipping through and e.e. cummings anthology. <3 you! Keep up the lovely work! (submitted by bethannholdridge)

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March 20, 2011 • 200 notes • sleepinglauren

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March 20, 2011 • 27 notes • sexxxisbeautiful

The Republican budget would:

sexisbeautiful:

1. Destroy 700,000 jobs, according to an independent economic analysis. 

2. Zero out federal funding for National Public Radio and public television.

3. Cut $1.3 billion from community health centers—which will deprive more than 3 million low-income people of health careover the next few months.

4. Cut nearly a billion dollars in food and health care assistance to pregnant women, new moms, and children.

5. Kick more than 200,000 children out of pre-school by cutting funds for Head Start.

6. Force states to fire 65,000 teachers and aides, dramatically increasing class sizes, thanks to education cuts. 

7. Cut some or all financial aid for 9.4 million low- and middle-income college students. 

8. Slash $1.6 billion from the National Institutes of Health, a cut that experts say would “send shockwaves” through cancer research, likely result in cuts to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s research, and cause job losses.

9. End the only federal family planning program, including cutting all federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood to support cancer screenings and other women’s health care.

10. Send 10,000 low-income veterans into homelessness by cutting in half the number of veterans who get housing vouchers this year.

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March 20, 2011 • 4,290 notes • genderqueerchicago.blogspot.com

It's My Pleasure...: whiskeylovelace: Fuck Yeah Menfolk: How to Make Love to a Trans...

whiskeylovelace:

Fuck Yeah Menfolk: How to Make Love to a Trans Person

fuckyeahmenfolk:

HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A TRANS PERSON

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…

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March 20, 2011 • 54 notes • sexxxisbeautiful

It's My Pleasure...: What's wrong with being a feminist?

sexisbeautiful:

I’m not frigid, or humorless. I’m not taking myself too seriously. And I’m certainly not hurting anyone.

“Feminism: The radical idea that women are people too.”

Feminism means that I expect to be treated like a person. Not like a woman, or a man. Not inferior to anyone, or like a…

March 16, 2011 • 2,970 notes • kari-shma
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier (Maud Muller - Pamphlet)

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March 16, 2011 • 520 notes • visual-graphic
visual-graphic: By Seb Lester

visual-graphic:

By Seb Lester

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March 16, 2011 • 3,734 notes • quote-book