Have The Courage To Exist

🐬Milo / 27 🐠 She / They 🦈 I want a life 🐟 that's as real as the salt in the sea 🐟

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Hey friends! If you don't know me I'm Milo! I'm a nonbinary Latinx lesbian poet and activist, I studied sociology and library science in school and I've been here on tumblr since I was 12 or 13!

Tumblr was the first place I shared some of these poems, so it's exciting and personal to share this on here! But I wrote a poetry book! It's called This Is Why I Never Left, it's a queer feminist anti-abuse book!

The book officially releases on August 16, 2025 with Daxson Publishing but pre-orders are open now!

My target audience for this book is anyone who queer, or trans, or a woman and it's meant to challenge sexist, heteronormative ideas that keep queer people from being able to come out and express themselves fully!

I'm from Southern California and most of the book takes place between Northern and southern California, but I also mention New York City, and Mexico City, and a couple other cities in the southwest.

If you pre-order your book now, I'll send you a cute little sticker pack that matches some of the poems in the book!

Thanks for supporting me! Likes and reblogs are always appreciated if you aren't able to buy a book! :)

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I set up a new website where you can purchase the book! Thanks again to everyone who's supported me, including everyone who's reblogged my post! :)

[phillietemple]

they fell into it hard and fast in phantopia

[latinotiktok]

[ary-is-a-femboy]

why is Uruguay the same. they didnt change Uruguay. thats just Uruguay this doesn't make any sense

[latinotiktok]

uruguay isnt gay enough for you?

[bluecoffeebeanz]

And when I’m back in Chicago, I feel it

[melonatures]

what to wear with CHEF SYDNEY ADAMU

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

What’s the best thing you took?

[laterkiss]

tshirt that says I HAD POTENTIAL

[urie]

americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those

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Unpacking comphet also made me really sit with other things that were kind of forced on me when I was really young that I never really got to decide for myself.

Like I wrote a book last year and a big theme in in it is how I either get read as like a tiny innocent girl that doesn’t know anything and isn’t capable of much or like this distant academic person with like no emotions and how neither of those is fully true? And it’s just me kinda exploring all these contradictions between how I see myself and how different people perceive me.

And I have this poem in there about how I’m more of an artist than an academic - and i identified as this smart academia person for so long I forgot how compulsory that was on me too.

Like my parents wanted me to be a good student, they’re both teachers and I was already reading by preschool. I was molded into an academic and I just wanted to get away from my abusive home so badly that I tried so hard to fit into academia myself.

But throughout my school experiences I was constantly in trouble for drawing or reading in class, and my notebooks were covered in doodle and colors, I saved so many of my community college notes just bc they were too pretty to throw away lolol.

I am this weird little artistic woo woo girl and 20 years of overachieving in academia never changed that lolol!

[rabbitplushoftheday]

Today’s rabbit plushies are:

Beige bunny and babies ~ by MorisMos

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The other volunteer at the library is a bit younger than me and he kind of follows me everywhere and I think he thinks he’s being nice by helping me lolol. And if he wasn’t younger than me it would feel a little patronizing lolol

But sometimes I say no to his help bc I like doing things on my own? Like I get more done if I don’t have to tell someone what to do and sometimes I just like a few moments of being on my own and completing tasks lolll!

Yes it’s a lot of work to do on my own but sometimes I prefer to do it on my own loll!

And maybe I’m doing too much - I’m a notorious overachiever but also like I went to school for this it’s my thing! I like books and displaying things nicely so it’s honestly fun for me loll!

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

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Main librarian said they liked all the shelf displays I did today! I got a good grade in library which is both normal to want and possible to achieve loll

[depsidase]

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OLIVIA RODRIGO BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

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Olivia Rodrigo - the cure in the Live Lounge