Kill Conformity

We never know the wine we are becoming while we are being crushed like grapes https://www.tumblr.com/blog/exulansisheart

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I’m like 1 year 5 months post top now

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Thank you #obama (at Washington, District of Columbia)

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at Washington, District of Columbia

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This little stinker pooped on my hand after this picture was taken Photocred: @zorina_alexis (at Harvey Hall)

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• • • • • #ftm #transition #transgender #trans

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It was an honor standing next to such royalty 🙃 (at Clarion University of Pennsylvania)

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The moment I allowed myself to be who I truly am inside was the scariest of my life. I was terrified. The thing is, I wasn't afraid because I wasn't sure this is who I am. I was afraid because of what that meant in our society. Everyday people are trying to ignore that transgender people exist. The thing is, you can disagree with the way we live our lives all you want but that doesn't mean we aren't alive and we will not be silenced. I wrote this on my wrist at one of the lowest moments of my life. The irony in it is that I'm no longer lost by embracing the fact that I'm a transgender man but freer than I've been my entire life. Happy #transdayofvisibility to all my brothers who have loved me and guided me throughout. I wouldn't be here without you all 💜

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I'm gonna drop out of school (at Starbucks)

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Thanks for being my buddy (at Clarion University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

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 international women’s day is today!!

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Proud to be part of the tribe with my brother ✊ (at Park Inn by Radisson)

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- "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" - "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." - "I don't much care where –" - "Then it doesn't matter which way you go. (at Resolute Custom Tattooing)

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My transition has been a roller-coaster but this tattoo encompasses all the beauty in it. I am a man and I embrace my femininity 100%. I have grown stronger through my struggle and although life is short, it is beautiful and worth it. Thank you for your amazing work Tucker! (at Resolute Custom Tattooing)

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Our View

Our view is

              A pair of shoes

Shuffling along

a dark alleyway.

Whatever you do -

DON’T LOOK

Up

Our view is

              A bathroom stall

Too small to fit

Our PERSONALITIES.

Too dirty –

to make us feel clean.

Our view

              Is of no concern

To the rest of society.

Walking fast -

              We constantly change…

Our view

              For to not stay too long -

Is what is best.

We make people,

              As bland as

              A rainbow with no color,

Uncomfortable.

Yet somehow, we are the ones

sitting on

devil horns,

While they sleep

on angel wings.

At our core,

              We are strong

As any queer can be -

              In a world drained of glitter.

To you,

              We are corrupting the youth

To us,

              We are saving them

From the delusion

That is

              The American Dream.

We talk to Lady Liberty

              On the nights,

we have nowhere else to go.

She tells us -

              Freedom is like her skin color

No longer its original design…

Our view

Is electric chairs

              Strapping our hope tightly

              As we wait for someone to care.

Our view

is penniless hands

              Leaving jobs

In an act of defeat.

Our view,

Is too dark for most

              Yet somehow

We squint

Because the light we see

Is brighter than theirs.

Our view

Is better

Because,

Our view

Is real

Our view,

Is alive

Our view

Is our view.