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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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The majority of people are horny. People are always going to be horny. You cannot stop people from being horny. Throughout history there have been extensive attempts to suppress horniness and they haven’t worked. You can be mad about it all you want but horniness will prevail against any adversity. There will always be an aspect of horniness within society. Sexuality cannot be contained by having missionary sex with your spouse alone in the privacy of a dark bedroom.

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When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

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疾走

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*turns on fairy lights to masturbate*

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I am torn between a sense of solidarity and devastation that that feeling of existing parallel to places you either used to belong or should belong, is so relatable. People and friends who may want to help but don't know how to, instead disappear back into the familiarity and normativity that is visible to you, but also out of your reach. And you breathe through knowing that they don't know how to help, but more pointedly are too fearful of what that could entail, that might upset their own familiar and norm, to try. Intentions are good, but hope that would inspire innovative action can be all but silent unless you already *know*.

This is not only true in the Church, but in all social circles I have ever experienced, being inside, alongside, or outside.

This is why critical thinking and the kind of liberation theology I have been swallowed into is so incredibly important because when we are so enveloped by Normativity, we are blind not to those who aren't but blind to solutions that could invite them in where we are, we cannot see their obstacles that we've made or perpetuated. We MUST look to the marginalized and we must HEAR them when they spell out what is in the way of connection. They're the only ones who can notice it because of the chasm between our vantage points.

This is why Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed that demands universal participation in dialogue, but that the salvation from being or becoming oppressors can only lie in the oppressed.

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god grant me the serenity to eroticize what i cannot change

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well first of all we’re supposed to conform ourselves to Christ, not to gender, so jot that down—

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Happy Easter

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Happy Trans Jesus Day to those who celebrate cracking all sorts of eggs!

Pleasant reminder that the concept of a trans-Jesus is hundreds and hundreds of years old, besides being someone who TRANScends all expectations in a liberative way, besides all the gender fuckery Jesus partook and encouraged by washing the feet of others or looking for the safe house where a man is carrying water, the Stigmata are historically treated as Jesus' divine vagina! Not one he was born with, but one that was given in the transformation of our salvation and proof of resurrection in Jesus' rebirth.

Happy Easter, everyone. 🐇🐣

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"If It's Sex You're Looking For..." Designed by Judith Johnson for Hallmark, 1971. Archived from The Peculiar Manicule.

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"Friends dont look at friends that way" COWARD. I look at my friends with awe in my eyes, my chest is filled with love, im glowing because i get to be near my friends. I look at my friends and i would give them my everything. SO SKILL ISSUE, look at your friends with all the love that you have

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idea: hands being tied in constant prayer, arms bound to my chest, head made to be bowing, forcibly trapped in worship

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