gay in dog years

every lgbt person of color can relate to feeling alienated from mainstream lgbt narratives because we don’t get to participate in so many of the things that white lgbt kids sometimes get to do. joining GSA, going to prom with a gay date, going to pride with friends….. i never reached those “gay milestones” the way my white lgbt peers did. 

i cannot find it in me to feel any emotion abt the possible death of someone who beat the shit out of a gay man and nearly killed him bc he looked at him in a way he thought wasn’t right and abused his ex girlfriend so bad she needed surgery on her eye and if that makes me a monster then fine

There is no biological reality surrounding race and there exists no “pure” race… race was created as a way of legitimising the oppression of people, especially Africans, that was already underway through the forms of colonialism and slavery.

i am so tired and so gay

it really be light outside until 7pm now, goodbye seasonal depression u dumb bitch

i’m so gay for women who take up space and wear stompy boots and flannel and are loud and i think more of them should make eye contact with and then marry me

we train young girls to ignore their hunger, to walk and stand and sit like ladies, to paint over or cover their pimples and stretch marks and cellulite, and then we are shocked when they grow up and become women who are alienated from their own bodies

People can do this if they want but no one should be judged for not doing it

this is not an appropriate time for choice feminism.

What I mean is that girls can fill up and wear make up if they want but they should always remember to live the life they want and ember that no one has claim over their bodies other than them

and what i mean is that these behaviors are enforced as part of beauty rituals and “wanting” to engage in them arises not from some intrinsic desire on the part of the girl but from the social rewards she knows she will be deprived of if she eschews them; to frame any kind of female beauty ritual as “chosen” is to obscure the social forces creatig and enforcing it; these pressures are potent and not in need of reinforcement via choice feminism; and furthermore, the behaviors cited in this post are inherently unhealthy and really don’t have positive, fun aspects we ought to be encouraging.

Stupidest thing ever is this infantilization of patriarchy like, “it’s boys who do those things; a ~~real man~~~ would never be that way” no listen to me, it is not little boys who crack jokes that make up patriarchy but actual grown-ass men engaging in actual physical, systematic, structural, emotional, verbal violence against women. Patriarchy is not puberty you grow out of but a backdrop wired into the fabric of our society.