It Shouldn’t Feel Like Dying.

Like, help a trans lesbian get a job. Invite her out to shit. Talk to her. Bring her around other lesbians and don’t make a big show of correcting someone who misgenders her. Offer a ride home at the end of the night so she doesn’t have to walk or bus alone. If you see a trans girl on the bus, sit next to her so some random, terrible dude doesn’t. Don’t invite people to a gathering that’d make her feel unsafe. Know your friends & girlfriend better. Talk to’em about the how and why of supporting trans lesbians. If they’re not on board, get them on board, and if that doesn’t work, it’s time to question the company you keep.

Make it so she feels that OF COURSE she belongs. That OF COURSE she’s supported.

I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.” 

Aries: ”I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

Taurus: ”If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.”

Gemini: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.“ 

Cancer: ”To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.“

Leo: “Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

Virgo: “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Libra:  “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.“ 

Scorpio: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

Sagittarius: “I can resist anything, except temptation.”

Capricorn: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

Aquarius: ”To define is to limit”