Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Every Body
It is essential we acknowledge the physical, economical, and psychological trauma US colonialism has inflicted on Indigenous communities. It is also essential we acknowledge historic and momentous moments of resistance led by Indigenous people.
I know how yucky it feels when your body and the world around you feel so strange, but I also know how great you can feel when you’re doing the things you love.
Older people used to be treated with respect and care, cherished as repositories of history and wisdom.
This is what it looks like when an Armenian has gender dysphoria.
Intersectional feminism absolutely helped me to find my own voice, but it also taught me to listen.
You don’t need to sacrifice your nonbinary identity to be sexual, because you do not need to perform gender during sex. There doesn’t have to be a male or female, dominant or submissive.
Si tienes barriga por un embarazo o porque has engordado algo al paso de los años, ama esa parte de tu cuerpo, es parte de ti. Es parte de tu historia, de tu viaje.
I will fight very hard so that my son’s right to his identity is respected.
If I couldn’t abandon mental illness or my Blackness, how else could I make myself a lighter thing to carry, to love?
The “right person” may not exist for everyone. That’s okay.
Every time I’ve approached a guy in the bar or anywhere else, I always feel like they’re talking to me out of pity.
We need to think about what we are doing to disinvite people into our lives without saying a word.
As white settlers, we have an obligation to challenge the vicious racism and xenophobia that continue to animate anti-immigrant and anti-refugee debates daily.
It’s work – worthwhile work – because I love my partner; but it’s NOT titillating, heart-pounding, or easy.
i shouldn’t have to surgically alter my body to be able to feel the sun and air on my bare chest just because that chest also happens to have breasts.
