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“queerness has an especially vexed relationship to evidence…. When the historian of queer experience attempts to document a queer past, there is often a gatekeeper, representing a straight present.”
“If I just looked a little different, I’d be drowning in love”? Now you got to drown without needing to change a single cell. Lucky you.
You are lucky to have met her. You are not some weird, desperate mess. You are wanted. Better yet, you are needed. You are a piece of someone’s destiny.
“I don’t believe in gay people,”
Shut up
You don’t know why you are crying. Everyone gets lost.
:'(
that it is important to live in unyielding fear with a smile on your face.
no its not :D
After all, you don’t need to die to leave a mark of psychic pain.
What if i cried
And so you aren’t just mad, or heartbroken: you grieve from the betrayal.
“Why do we teach girls that their perspectives are inherently untrustworthy?”
YES YES
That’s not how it happened, but okay. We can pretend. I’ll give it to you, just this once.
Im going to cry
“your words are very pretty. And yet they cannot obscure the simple fact that I have seen your zoo.”
AHHHHHHHH
being told you should be grateful for anything you get as a fat woman,
And haven’t men been gaslighting women, abusing their lovers, harassing their girlfriends, murdering their wives for as long as human history has existed? And isn’t their violence always a footnote, an acceptable causality?
I hate men
just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible.
:(
