Life Ain't Chess

Needed this

We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.

— Bruce D. Perry

Shout out to lesbians past, present, and future!

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Homemade camera rig takes stunning close-up pictures of snowflakes

Altoona Tribune, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1939

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan

You idiots have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.

So please, let’s try to bring awareness and bring about change instead of insulting entire groups of people because they are facing issues that are less scary than the one presented.

thank you so much for this wording

Every time someone says something like, “You […] have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.” What they are saying is, “shut up, we could treat you worse if we wanted to.”

— E.J. Koh, “Writing Advice for My Younger Self,” published in Catapult