Adventures in tumbling...

i cannot rely on caesar to create that heaven. i will not rely on caesar to create that heaven-- i will lean on my Lord, and try my damnest to live a life pleasing to Him, dedicated to upholding and establishing godly justice.

It is so incredibly difficult to word how complex faith is, there's a lot I could say.. But I guess to set the record straight, queer religious folk AREN'T your enemy. A queer religious person likely gets treated like shit just like you do, except now you're putting them into a position where they're simultaneously getting shit on by bigoted religious people AND the queer community that's supposedly oh so accepting of them.

This isn't even touching on how tunnel visioned you are that you forget how broad religion is in the first place. You guys DO know that when someone says "god", they might not be referring to the Christian god.. Right?? RIGHT?? (which is implying that major religions like christianity even have consistently AMONGST THEMSELVES like holy fuck they can't even agree on what day you're meant to go to church and what calendar is correct)

Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you Christian queers. I love you Muslim queers. I love you Jewish queers. I love you religious queers that fall outside the abrahamic religions: Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus.. I love you religious queers whose religion is too niche or unappreciated to ever come up. I love you religious queers who have many gods or no gods. I love you indigenous queers.

Religion is as diverse as queerdom, and people are religionbending every day, just like people genderbend. Liberate religion from whatever boxes you've put it in, same as you'd do with gender or sexuality. It doesn't have to be some stuffy institution handed down from on high if you don't want it to be! You can make religion be whatever you want it to be!

Religionfuck, like genderfuck!

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask - and rightly so - what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.”

“…[In] the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Black poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.”

“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.

“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.

"No War but Class War"