bell hooks, All About Love (2000)
Sylvia Rivera (via anarcho-queer)
7 Things I Wish Parents Would Stop Teaching Their Children:
- That nudity is inherently sexual
- That people should be judged for their personal decisions
- That yelling solves problems
- That they are too young to be talking about the things they’re already starting to ask questions about
- That age correlates to importance
- That interacting with someone of the opposite sex is inherently romantic
- That the default for someone is straight and cisgender
Friendly reminder that estrogen doesn’t change your voice so please do not make fun of trans women with non-cis sounding voices vocal training is hard thank you.
This is no joke. So hard. Especially if you’re older.
Support trans woman who chose not to undertake voice training. Support trans woman with non-cis sounding vocal resonance.
Also remember: Trans women’s voices are women’s voices; ergo, trans women sound like women. No matter what.
And self reminder: allyship means practice. it means defending against cuts to voice training services/all health & social services that trans women may or may not chose to undertake.
support fat nonbinary folk who cannot make themselves look ~typically androgynous~ no matter how much they might want to
support dfab nonbinary folks who can’t or don’t want to hide their chests
support dmab nonbinary people who don’t have willowy figures
thin and masculinely androgynous is not the only way to be nonbinary
SUPPORT FAT NONBINARY PEOPLE
hey
hey friend
dont kill yourself tonight ok
you have a really pretty smile and i know its not always easy to manage one but itd be a bummer if we never had the chance to see it ever again
youre really important and you matter a lot so stay safe and try and have a nice sleep
I would like a moment to thank the people who reblog post like this so that it eventually shows on my dash.
It is keeping me alive
God knows I need this some nights
Oh this makes my breath catch in my chest.
The thing that sucks about mental illness is that if you aren’t depressed enough, suicidal enough, bad enough, nobody cares. Nobody cares until you reach their standard, and that standard is when your problem is bad enough to effect them
The amount of people who can relate to this makes me equally incredibly sad and immensely angry
Y.Z, for the bad nights (via rustyvoices)
Unknown (via janeaustenfightclub)
Myth Creation is a Form of Our Collective and Individual Liberation
(Painting by Komi Olaf)
Myth Creation is a Form of our Collective and Individual Liberation: We have the power to create our own stories to empower ourselves and our communities. We can change, write and rewrite our stories of ourselves and our people where we control the outcome. The history that has been sold us, is no more than a myth, thus we brilliantly, fiercely create our own.
- 10th Tenant of Alien Nation
It is known that i absolutely adore D’BI YOUNG, an inspiration for my own writing and performance techniques. She just recently posted a great article review done by Sandra Alland of BOOK MADAME & ASSOCIATES of her work ART OF BLACK , which speaks of art, language, accessibility and the power of performance. This woman is a power house with such a beautiful spirit. Here is a quote from the article:
“I grew up watching my mother tell stories. The biggest lesson mom taught me was integrity. No matter how poor, how alienated, how other you are, you always have the choice to act with integrity.”
photo by the amazing Nanky Rai
nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
(via psych-facts)