this shitty backstage selfie is the hottest I have ever looked in a photograph
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Loving The Cure
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This Pride month & anniversary of Pulse, please consider donating to orgs that serve LGBTQ people of color and immigrants, and Miss Major’s retirement fund!
on june 12, the same mainstream gay media that has remained silent on the close into 5,000 deaths in puerto rico, which included lgbtq boricuas, will dominate and erase queer & trans boricua voices in their coverage of the 2 year anniversary of the pulse massacre. this is why we must remain to speak our stories to each other. always. every gawd damn day.
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so on this day of the national puerto rican day parade, i raise up all of the queer and trans boricuas i shared time and space with during my time in puerto rico. they continue to remind me of the resiliency and pain of the queer and trans boricuas on and off of the island.
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photo taken by @lou_rok during the san juan pride parade on june 3, 2018.
happy pride let’s please stop using hypothetical trans women of color as rhetorical props in every single conversation about queer oppression
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hey man, if you’re ace and going to pride, please be respectful, this was a space specifically created for free sexual expression and embracing the sexuality normally shamed and denied to us by social norms and government apparatus
Shaming sex in this space or bringing signs along the lines of ‘proud of being sex-free’ is highly tone deaf to the history of gay, trans, and bi spaces that are meant to help us feel proud and specifically un-shamed for our sexuality
Miss Major On Rioting At Stonewall: ‘That Was 3 Nights Of Absolute Terror’
the article is a little vapid but well worth reading for Miss Major’s words.
on assimilation:
“[…I]f you want to do something different and be the best person that you can be, why would you want to mimic or copy people who absolutely hate and abhor your very existence? And who, if they would have gotten the chance, would have eradicated you years ago. But you want to copy them and live like they live and have a little house and adopt a little black child and live this life that you really haven’t earned, or they don’t feel are entitled to. And then to turn your head and criticize and ruin and step on someone else’s life, which is usually my community. That’s my fear.”
on Stonewall:
“For what good it did my trans girls, it might as well have not happened.”
definitely click through for the full text.
Miss Major On Rioting At Stonewall: ‘That Was 3 Nights Of Absolute Terror’
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if pronouncing wlw and mlm as “wool” and “mlem” is wrong
then I am fundamentally incapable of being right
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