#caleb luna

[stvivi]

some of my favorite quotes from the book Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color

OCEAN VUONG Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong

PAUL TRAN Elegy with My Mother’s Lipstick

AUDRE LORDE Power

CALEB LUNA feeding me starving

CHEN CHEN Quantitative Reasoning

DANEZ SMITH On Grace

GEORGE ABRAHAM Inheritance

HIEU MINH NGUYEN Heavy

[softandorsweet]

just ~ if you haven’t listened to the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back GO DO IT!!! it’s a group of Fat liberationist discussing everything fatness and anti-fatness. plus they all exist with multiple marginalizations, most hosts are queer and trans. it’s so brilliant i’ll never get over it!!!! god

[cringelock]

said much better than i ever could

[fatliberation]

“Clothing that makes a fat body fatter (or simply unashamed), that breaks gendered and sexual norms, that signals queerness and so on, comes with its own risks. And sometimes we risk it. Sometimes we make our own possibilities...Queerness calls us to brandish our boldness on our bodies. It hails us to an embodied resistance to beauty standards that rely on whiteness, light skin, thinness, muscularity, masculinity, able-bodiedness, an absence of scars or blemishes, the right amount of body hair, and so on. Queerness says fuck that, and while we’re at it fuck you. Fatness reminds us that we don’t exist for you, and neither do these bodies. Fat queerness says we’re disturbing to you because you need to be disturbed” (Caleb Luna, “Jockstraps and Crop Tops,” p. 40-41).

[gaywrites]

I have come to a place of gender apathy. Where gender becomes an experience much larger than me that I have little to no control over, and have forsaken any attempts. I feel no pressure to ‘figure’ my gender out, and have rejected any responsibility to reach a destination, to decipher what gender means for me and what role it occupies in my life and experiences, to present a road map or answers to a system that refuses to acknowledge the complexity of what informs all of our genders. The closest I can come to articulating my gender is Fat, and even this feels like offering more than what is deserved, like retrofitting a body to a system that never wanted it.

The Gender Nonconformity of My Fatness | Caleb Luna for The Body Is Not An Apology 

[campgender]

been listening to unsolicited: fatties talk back & caleb luna just said “i do not identify as a festive person” & i’m like meeee

[darthfoil]

"There have been various moments in my life when it is structured such that there will be no great upset in anyone’s life if I am not there. Some people would not have someone to text occasionally, but there do not appear to be gaps that couldn’t and wouldn’t be filled by others. No one’s daily, material life would be changed by my absence. This is to say: no one has invested in incorporating me into their life, in distributing their care, in any meaningful way such that my absence will create a gulf." - Source I find this terrifying.

[linguagensdigitaisunila]

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