@breakingjane / breakingjane.tumblr.com
there are truths hiding in the corners of my mouth. words sulking in corners behind teeth and locked tongue. they twitch into a foreign smile that makes me cover my mouth with my hands. words come slowly now. bare whispers crawl up and not out my burning throat. they stay thoughts to chew on. to demolish. to swallow back down to the depths of me that have too long stayed dark, damp, and wasted.
a vintage t shirt featuring a play on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in place from 1993 to 2011
I've been having a really rough time lately sorting through my identity and my right to claim certain parts of it...
I'm 25% Chinese and lived in Beijing for two years and I love that part of myself, but a woman literally laughed in my face the other day when I said I was part Chinese.
I feel constantly invalidated, worried and ashamed about taking ownership of that part of me, and feel like I have no right to it.
I get it, I look super white. I'm not trying to assert to anyone that I've struggled because of my Chinese heritage. But it's there, and it's real, it's a part of me.
When people make it seem as if it's not enough to matter, I become "not enough". I become only 75% of myself.
And I don't know what to do with that, but it hurts.
soappppp
yall I fucking bled for this peice of trash pls like it
oh. I thought it was a photo.
Damn it took me 5 minutes to figure out why you wanted people to like a picture of soap. You did such a good job people think you are just posting random pics of soap.
this isn’t the fist time this has happened, I painted lube and everyone was confused that I posted a picture of lube
Imagine being such a good artist that people think you’re just an lolrandom shitposter
The realest shitposters are just god teir artists
this problem isn’t that men “misread” signals (and even verbal statements), it’s that men are unwilling to accept what’s being communicated, because it’d mean they won’t get what they want–and they value getting what they want more than they value their partner’s comfort, safety, and desires. this is a matter of will and values masquerading as a matter of knowledge and communication. men’s “confusion” is their justification for continuing with what they want to do (and society will accept it too!), so there’s always a motivation to be “confused.” that’s the problem.
Destiny Hemphill, from “dna is just anotha theory for reincarnation: me, sitting in a burning tree (c. 4063)” published in Winter Tangerine (via lifeinpoetry)
FELICITY KEEFE TRANSITIONS
