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Anonymous asked: what is your deepest darkest secret?

that I’m an evangelical Christian infiltrating the queer world to save as many souls as possible. 3 so far. 

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battle-studies: politics-war: Israelis gather during a demonstration in support of African migrants on May 24, 2012. No sweetheart, you are not all refugees. Her experience is not the same as African refugees, let alone Palestinians who’ve been made refugees. I’m so bored of this we-all-bleed-the-same-blood crap. What about a sign that says “I am given privileges in our nation because of my ethnic background and that is racism”?

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politics-war:

Israelis gather during a demonstration in support of African migrants on May 24, 2012.

No sweetheart, you are not all refugees. Her experience is not the same as African refugees, let alone Palestinians who’ve been made refugees. I’m so bored of this we-all-bleed-the-same-blood crap. What about a sign that says “I am given privileges in our nation because of my ethnic background and that is racism”?

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To the pharmacy technician at Bartell’s on the Ave

You don’t need to guess my gender with your coworkers when trying to explain to a customer the product they are looking for is behind me. Simply stating, that it is by the person in the blue shirt and mariners cap would have sufficed, seeing how I was the only person dressed like that in the store. It’s not that hard. I would’ve even waved to make sure they saw me. 

Filed under customer service gender heteronormativity misgender trans* transgender transphobia transmasculine

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I don’t take hormones and I haven’t had surgery. I’m not less Trans than anyone else. There aren’t levels you have to reach. This isn’t Super Mario Brothers…there isn’t a secret pathway through a green pipe and all of the sudden you are on a higher level of Trans.
Tristan Skye (via genderbendingriotqueer)

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We need to move the self-care conversation into community care. We need to move the conversation from individual to collective. From independent to interdependent.

Too often self-care in our organizational cultures gets translated to our individual responsibility to leave work early, go home- alone- and go take a bath, go to the gym, eat some food and go to sleep. So we do all of that “self-care” to return to organizational cultures where we reproduce the systems we are trying to break; where we are continually reminded of our own trauma or exposed and absorb secondary PTSD, and where we then feel guilty or punished for leaving work early the night before to take a bubble bath.

Self-care, as it is framed now, leaves us in danger of being isolated in our struggle and our healing. Isolation of yet another person, another injustice, is a notch in the belt of Oppression. A liberatory care practice is one in which we move beyond self-care into caring for each other.

You shouldn’t have to do this alone.

Excerpt from Communities of Care, Organizations for Liberation
by Yashna Maya Padamsee.

I like a lot of things about this quote, I definitely feel like taking care of each other is something that’s really undervalued.  I still think that self-care and spending time alone is really important, though.  Alone does not have to equal isolation.

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(Source: careoftheself, via jessicawarmbo)