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@queersurvival-blog
[photo: spray paint on concrete ground reads, “compañer@, i know that you are hurting but you are still alive, you will survive and together we will dismantle the systems that broke our hearts." text is accompanied by a broken heart from which a fist rises. text in the heart reads, “racism, poverty, rape, war, homophobia, sexism, borders, STDs."]
via Oakland Street Art
Anyone who says St. Louis isn’t great is just fucking wrong.
"We've come to terms with our deviance, our defiance, or love for fucking and flowers. We've pushed inward and outward at once; we've learned to hold one another even if it's only that moment, that taste, that tongue to tongue or imprint of sweaty fingertips.
And still, we are loosing hope,. We wonder how our desires have led to an endless quest for Absolut voka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, Pottery Barn, and the perfect abs and asshole."
-Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, "Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?"
Today survival means holding on to the parts of my culture that are sustaining, regardless of how maligned they might be--and rejecting the efforts to assimilate me that threaten my life by pushing me towards an unattainable ideal, and threaten the life of my community through the triple tactics of dividing, anesthetizing and absorbing.
Faggotry forever.
We cannot condemn ourselves into a wholesome kind of change.
Tara Brach--A Forgiving Heart (podcast)
Repeat after me: I am not a problem to be solved. Repeat after me: I am worthy I am worthy I am neither the mistake nor the punishment.
Sierra DeMulder (via ampersandrearasmussen)
dear queer people who claim queer community,
my mother, an immigrant mother who doesn’t speak english who hasn’t been educated in this country, who doesn’t have the language of anti-oppression theory in her vocabulary saw the pride signs strewn put up around all parts of seattle and noticed...
i havent done comics in a while which is silly since im a comic artist
This is really cute and really true.
one of the biggest gifts i have received from sobriety is value outside of the approval of others.
Love this, and love that the example is a big fear food of my own.
Beer gardens, alcohol sponsored floats, the smell of weed floating by on the breeze at the festival—pride can be a hard time for sober queers. I don’t usually have much difficulty in spaces where drinking happens—but Pride has a way of putting alcohol front and center, and I usually spend at least a couple minutes feeling isolated from the rest of the community and unable to take part in the celebration. Lets take care of each other out there. The truth is that we’re not alone. There are tons of other queers in recovery getting our pride on in ways that don’t tear apart our lives. Please don’t let yourself feel alone today. Today survival means maintaining my own sobriety, and reaching out to other queers in recovery--because each one of us we keep afloat is a win for our community as a whole. (And also it means wearing this awesome tshirt! I love wearing it to big gay events cause all the other sobes come up to say hi :)
This is what survival looks like.
I am genuinely excited about yesterday’s verdicts on DOMA and Prop 8, but knowledge of the way that the greater movement has treated more marginalized queers while pursueing these victories, and of other work that has been neglected in favor of working on marriage equality—I cannot help but feel conflicted—and disappointed because I cannot be as overjoyed about these events as I’d like to be.
So how’s this? Please, celebrate this. It’s a worthwhile thing and I’m happy for you—and happy for myself as a gay man. But when the celebration is over please stop and take stock of what’s going on around you. Remember that the average life expectancy for a trans person* is 30-32 years. That there are queer people facing deportation who do not have a partner who is a citizen. Remember that gay marriage will not provide healthcare to a person who’s partner does not have benefits that can be extended to them. Remember that funding for HIV/AIDS organizations is being slashed all around the country, and that 20%-40% of homeless youth are queer. Remember these things and then do something about them. Volunteer. Write letters. Talk to your friends. Gay marriage is important, but it’s imperative that we not fall into the trap of thinking that it is a silver bullet for all that ails us—or that the rest of these issues can wait. Today, survival is about holding complexity and believing that we can do better.
*I want to explicitly acknowledge that this number is largely driven by violence and discrimination that is targeted specifically at trans women.
Today, survival looks like learning about Tumblr's ignore function.
Did you know?
collectivecrack:
White American males constitute only 33% of the population. Yet, they occupy approximately:
80% of tenured positions in higher education
80% of the House of Representatives
80-85% of the U.S. Senate
92%of Forbes 400 executive CEO-level positions
90% of athletic team owners
97.7% of U.S. presidents
Good thing we solved sexism and racism u guise
I'd love to see a similar list drawn up for trans men. There would be a ton of cross over of course, but something addressing the issues that arise when your privilege group is also a target group would be helpful.
Today is the fourth anniversary of my top surgery—it’s hard to believe its been that long! I’m so grateful to have been able to access this surgery, but also want to take a second to talk about surgery, bodies, and expected trans narrative.
I knew I needed this surgery, but needing is different than wanting. My feelings approaching my surgery date were of being stuck with an impossible decision: be put under and have two sizable chunks of my flesh removed, or live with a body that caused me significant daily discomfort.
My long term wellbeing won out (thankfully!) But after surgery I experienced a bout of post surgical depression, a fairly common reaction to the physical trauma of any surgical procedure.
I found that—both before and after—the people in my life were really ready to be happy and excited for me, but unsure of how to react when my feelings didn’t match the narrative they expected—except for one trans acquaintance who looked me in the eye and asked, “how’re you doing? I felt pretty traumatized after mine.”
That wasn’t the end of the hard emotions, but that brief moment of validation—of having my reality reflected to me by another person— was the beginning of the climb back to my normal state of mind, and the beginning of being able to appreciate my new body.
So today, survival is about telling alternative trans narratives in the interest of making sure that no one else has to feel that alone.
Societal expectations of masculinity
Societal expectations to provide for women
No long term reversible male birth control
Men who are raped are more likely to remain silent and be dismissed or outright laughed at
Unfair treatment in child…
Add to this: homophobia--which kind of falls under societal expectations of masculinity, but is such a *thing* that it deserves to be called out on it's own--and especially needs to be linked up to sexism.
