“Love didn’t just hit me, nor did I fall. I choose to love.”
— Tara Love : this love is a gift not an obligation

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“Love didn’t just hit me, nor did I fall. I choose to love.”
— Tara Love : this love is a gift not an obligation
(Via Instagram) Being a transgender teen can be difficult to say the least. What can be even more difficult are the pressures that we face as queer and trans people during this time. With doctors, therapists, and teachers telling me I had to present femininely in order to be safe, respected, or valued in society, I caved to the pressure of these authority figures. Over time, all openly trans people learn that being comfortable with oneself is more important than how others see you. So, I changed my appearance after a few years of transitioning as I grew more comfortable in my body and knew what was right for me. I’ve long had much more of an affinity for suits and ties than flow-y shirts and dresses. I should have access to this aesthetic as any other queer woman does. Trans people should likewise have autonomy over how we appear, regardless of how much we conform to gender norms. Instead of invoking fear about backlash to our trans identities, we should create a society that degenders clothing and embraces us for our unique presentations.
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An eye within… one that beholds at once the past, the present, and the future; which diffuses through all things the keen brightness of its vision; which penetrates what is hidden, investigates what is impalpable; which needs no foreign light wherewith to see, but gazes by a light of its own, peculiar to itself. The animal soul is driven blindly along by its ruling passion. Listen without ears, speak to him without the tongue, Since the speech of the tongue is not without offence and injury. ✻.ღ.*.Rumi.*.ღ.✻ ƬĤΛИҠ Y♡Ʊ F♡Ŕ ßƐĪИƓ
Original painting by 16-year-old artist Dimitra Milan Motion Graphic Effects by George RedHawk DarkAngel0ne
Sapphic Aesthetic: Space and time are two wlw and they are in love.
Inspired by the @blushingyellow addition here to a post by @ahzoka.
I love this. <3 #queer #infiniteloop #love #spaceandtime
Have you all head of this amazing new comic coming from IDW called The Infinite Loop by Pierrick Colinet and Elsa Charretier? It is a love story about two time traveling women! It has sci-fi, and romance, and DINOSAURS! The art looks amazing and the story sounds so cool!!! They are also doing a letters section and they are looking for stories about first love, and also when readers first realized they were gay, lesbian, bi, queer or trans. If you would like to submit your stories for consideration, you can send them to [email protected]. Check out these links for more info! This book is going to be super cool! I am so excited! http://comicsalliance.com/elsa-charretier-the-infinite-loop-idw-interview/ http://www.afterellen.com/books/414453-infinite-loop-takes-star-crossed-lady-lovers-trip-space-time
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Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
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Rock bottom has built way more champions than privilege.
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I learned that people can easily forget that others are human.
"Prisoner" from the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)
The girls are never supposed to end up together. I watched that movie with Ellen Page and Alia Shawkat, the roller-skating movie, the one where Ellen and Alia are best friends, each other’s only comforts in their podunk town. They need each other, and they hug, and they dance, and they tell each other I Love You, and Ellen meets a skinny boy who plays in a band. It doesn’t even work out with the boy, but that’s almost tangential. The girl was never a real option. I think that’s why it’s really difficult for girls. For me. We follow narratives and our fingertips trace the contours of the stories we love and we long to escape within the confines of our own lives. Meet your boyfriend in the pouring rain and yank down his mask and kiss him upside down. Run with your boyfriend to the front of the ferry and throw your arms out to the side and scream, “I’m king of the world!” If you are a girl in love with a boy, your possibilities are infinite. If there is a special girl in your life, you love her as a friend. You love her as a friend, but she becomes less important to you as you grow, and you leave her behind for a boy. She might even stand next to you when you marry the boy, and she might catch the bouquet of flowers that you throw to her. You’re giving her permission to move on, move away from you. It’s a ceremony of separation. But if you should fall in love with a girl - and loving and falling in love are two very distinct things - the first kiss is the end. You’ve all seen the movie. Or the television show. Or the after-school special, or you’ve read the book that was banned from your school’s library for containing Sexual Content. The point of your story is not to fall in love. The point of your story is to struggle. Your story begins with a lie and climaxes in a truth and ends with a kiss. In the movie of your life, forty-five minutes are devoted to you figuring out how to say that you want to kiss girls, and another half-hour is devoted to people’s objections, and maybe the last fifteen minutes is you kissing the girl. Maybe you don’t even get to kiss the girl. Maybe she tells you that she’s flattered, but she doesn’t bat for your team. The critics swoon; it’s realistic, they say, so realistic, to depict the struggle of the modern teen, the heartbreak of irresolvable incompatibility. Isn’t that always what celebrities cite in their divorces? “Irreconciliable differences.” And so you’re lying on the floor of your bathroom, your knees curled to your chest, or you’re on your sofa with a pint of ice cream, or you’re in bed watching your favourite sad movie on Netflix, and the collective weight of all that you consume settles on your shoulders, leans in, and whispers, “You were never meant to fall in love.” You were never meant to fall in love. Your story ends in tears or it ends in death. Jack Twist was bludgeoned to death with a tire iron and Ennis Del Mar was left alone in his closet to dance with an empty shirt. Alby Grant found Dale Tomasson swinging by a noose in the apartment that had been their safehouse, their respite, and he sank to his knees and cradled Dale’s bare feet and he cried. The Motion Picture Association of America axed Lana Tisdel and Brandon Teena’s sex scenes, but they didn’t have a problem with the extended shot of Lana cradling Brandon’s corpse in her fragile arms and falling asleep next to his body. Love and intimacy are ours only in death, or so it would seem. I don’t want to die. Isn’t that a very human experience? Not wanting to die? When does anyone who looks like me get to grow old and raise grandchildren and hold her wife’s hand as the skin wrinkles, turns translucent? Sometimes my father asks me if I’ll ever date a man. Sometimes he doesn’t ask. “You are attracted to men, and you dream about falling in love with men,” he says, as if he can will his imaginary daughter into existence merely by speaking about her. Or maybe he is just looking out for my safety. He’s seen the movies, too. He loves me. He doesn’t want me to die.
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I’ve noticed an interesting pattern with “I don’t need feminism” signs.
The ‘because’ is either a reason we DO, in fact need feminism or a blatant misunderstanding of what feminism is.
It’s always one of these two things or a combination of both.
Too true
I understand that you are interested in being an archaeologist and all but there's not place in the historical career path for a woman especially one that's gay
by the time I am looking for a job its going to be 2019+
it’s not 1950 where the fuck are you
I’m not gay, I’m bisexual, there’s a difference
why does being a woman interfere with my sitting in a hole looking at old stuff?
why does being “gay” matter? am I going to try and FUCK all the female skeletons???
Gertrude Bell has been given the name ‘mother of Mesopotamian archaeology’ but of course, there’s no place for women in the historical career path
Harriet Boyd Hawes discovered the Bronze Age site of Gournia (the first Minoan town site found) but obviously that’s not important because she’s a woman
Hetty Goldman was the first female professor at the ‘School of Humanistic Studies’ at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, but that doesn’t count cause she’s female
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon??? What did she do?? Only discovered a fuck load of information about the Neolithic and early Bronze Age cultures of the Levant?? Is that it?? She also formulated one of the two leading theories of the time regarding the development of agriculture and the domestication of animals?? But that’s nothing really, she’s only a woman
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Having a friend who is gay and in the military, I see this happen a lot. People often thank her for defending their freedom, not realizing that that involves her protecting their right to protest hers.
Freedom is for everyone. It is your right to protest another’s, but it is not yours to take theirs away. Many people have died for your freedoms and fought for your rights; what makes anyone else’s any less significant…..
"I may not agree with a word you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." -Voltaire
“I am a feminist because” I don’t think this video could be much more relevant.