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Ada Limón, from “The End of Poetry”, The Hurting Kind

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Illustrated by Igor Karash

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“lesbian punks” photographed by isa massu, 1987

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that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”

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the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

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On hunger and love: 1. Catherynne M. Valente | 2. Natalie Diaz | 3. Katherine Larson | 4. Edvard Munch | 5. Caroline Walker Bynum | 6. Hélène Cixous | 7. José Saramago | 8. Hélène Cixous | 7. Roberto Ferri

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Joy Harjo, Perhaps the World Ends Here

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colorado, colorado

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“Countless biographies by women reveal that girl children witnessing a mother’s suffering at the hands of male tyrants – fathers, brothers, and/or husbands – are deeply, traumatically affected. Not only do we want to rescue our mothers but also we want to change our destiny so we will never suffer the way they did or do.”

— Communion: The Female Search for Love, bell hooks (via warmlove)

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“James Baldwin writes about suffering in the healing process, stating: “I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.” Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.”

— Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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Ijeoma Umebinyuo, your love poems need politics to survive //  June Jordan, Directed by Desire // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love // Mahmoud Darwish // Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light // Rod Smith // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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do y'all even know how much i hate being an “elder queer” at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the “right” people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn’t codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.

i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.

when i was growing up i didn’t go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that’s 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.

from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don’t let that have been in vain, please.

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“… I began to learn the names of trees. I like to call things as they are. Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested in but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.”

— — Ada Limón, from “Calling Things What They Are,” The Hurting Kind (via lifeinpoetry)

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Oh btw black and other lesbians of color have had terfs' numbers wrt the racism and white supremacy inherent in their premise since at least the 70's. Like they have been speaking on this for upwards of 50 years.

This part is speaking about the 70s, and this book was published in 1991 (Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America is the title).