The Testimony Project, Washington, D.C.

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

777 followers, who is feeling lucky? 😊

There’s a real suspicion of women that you see over the past century and longer, the sense that if women get to choose how they live their lives, they’re going to choose against marriage, childbearing, the family. They’re just going to live these selfish, decadent lives. And it’s really shocking to think about the implications of that. … So you have to control women in order to keep them enclosed within the domestic sphere.

If a kid that’s bi is watching TV and doesn’t really see anyone that identifies as bi or queer that is in a happy, functioning relationship, that has a good job, that lives past a 3-episode guest star arc — or maybe the bi character is hypersexualized or possibly a villain, [which] happens a lot — what does that mean for a 12, 13-year-old watching television and consuming media, and thinking, ‘Well who am I then? I guess I’m not this thing because I’m not a villain, I don’t want to be hypersexualized, I want what everybody wants, to live happy and well.

stop romanticizing unhealthy relationships.

One of the things I like about this: they’re doing it without shouting down women.

I’m really tired of only seeing posts for trauma survivors who have managed to stay kind. not all of us can. not all of us can do that and still cope.

Shout out to everyone who calls themselves a victim of abuse instead of (or in addition to) calling themselves a survivor.