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btw I am doing it afraid

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Daniel Obaweya

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Jaime King and Davide Sorrenti

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Emily Harman, "Tender, the Bruise"

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Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West

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Ilya Kaminsky, from "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses", Deaf Republic

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[“Our understanding of perversion and normalcy comes from institutions where categorizing people into binaries is framed as a necessary preliminary stage of healing. But it’s not identity or desire that causes emotional or spiritual distress: it’s the fear that something in your nature does not conform with the kind of person you’ve been told you’re supposed to be. It’s the insidious idea that being a good person and being a fetishist are mutually exclusive, that a healthy queer is a contradiction in terms. While mental health professionals have long speculated about what causes a person to develop a fetishistic preference in the first place, there is not an agreed-on explanation. Fetishes are like dreams in this way. Considering how damaging pathologizing theories have been to the self-esteem of and social regard for fetishists, we could argue that maybe there never should be one explanation.”]

tina horn, from why are people into that? a cultural investigation of kink, 2024

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i love reading, i love thinking about what i am currently reading, i love thinking about what i am going to read next, i love being privileged enough to be able to read, read, read, and read so much that i never tire of it

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— June Gehringer, ‘I get so jealous of euthanized dogs’ (via lunamonchtuna)

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Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “Portrait of Dora”

Text ID: It’s in your silences that I’d like to touch you.

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INTERVIEWER: When I consider what a risk it must have been to write about homosexuality when you did…

BALDWIN: You’re talking about Giovanni’s Room. Yeah, that was rough. But I had to do it to clarify something for myself.

INTERVIEWER: What was that?

BALDWIN: Where I was in the world. I mean, what I’m made of. Anyway, Giovanni’s Room is not really about homosexuality. It’s the vehicle through which the book moves. Go Tell It on the Mountain, for example, is not about a church and Giovanni is not really about homosexuality. It’s about what happens to you if you’re afraid to love anybody. Which is more interesting than the question of homosexuality.

— James Baldwin, from an interview with The Village Voice

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Jill McDonough, “What a Waste”

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Jackie Sabbagh, “Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”

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[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

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Brianna Pastor, Good Grief

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Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister's House”, A Thousand Mornings

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Clinging