Imagine coming home after a long day and they just hug you. They hug you in a way that melts all the tension from your muscles, and makes the stresses of the day fade into some distant memory. It’s one of those hugs you feel like you could fall asleep in, but you don’t want to because you want to savor every ounce of it even though you know you’ll get a million more of them
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TMA/TME is such fucking useless language if you actually understand that systems of oppression are fluid and don't actually give a shit about how you - the victim of violence - actually personally identify because all the system of oppression wants to do is be violent against anyone it deems worthy of violence.
Like - lest we forget things like the ways in which Cisgender Black Women are transvestigated and also experience extreme amounts of Transmisogyny because Black Womanhood is masculinized by a White Supremacist society.
Or the ways in which Intersex People's bodies are treated like medical disasters that need to be "corrected" so good little girls have vaginas and good little boys have penises. If the forcible correction of a little girl's genitals motivated by the fact that a doctor doesn't think a little girl should have a penis and a uterus isn't rooted in anti-intersex, sexist, transmisogynist ideas about women and womanhood I don't know what is.
Or even more broadly speaking - just to highlight this concept further - the ways in which Sikhs continue to be victims of Islamophobic violence even when they are very much not Muslim because a White Christian Supremacist society afraid of "Middle Eastern Terror" only cares that a Brown Person is visibly not Christian before enacting violence against them.
Or getting more personal, the ways in which no one in bumfuck South Dakota actually sits down and asks my sisters what their ethnicity is before slinging anti-Native or anti-Hispanic rhetoric at them, despite the fact that they're Japanese American and just don't look "stereotypically East Asian".
It's just so functionally useless to define groups of people by the violence they do or don't experience - especially under an Intersectional lense of understanding oppression - because the people and systems who are actually enacting the violence do not give a shit if they're "right" or not !!! They want to subjugate difference regardless !!!!
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𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓗𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓐 𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓮, 𝓝𝓸 𝓜𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓒𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝔂 𝓑𝓮.
Come close, and I will touch you. Talk to me, and I will relax. Bound me to your rules, and I will remain a volunteer. Punish me, and I will accept it. Take the organ along with the flower I give you, and your precious life will be saved. Vanish, and the eternity will make us more hollow than ever. We can't continue together, we can't die together, but perhaps the very power of this unhealable wound will help me to keep my bits of humanity...
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I feel so left out and out of place again. I tried to ignore the feelings as I usual do but I truly don't fit in anywhere, right? The sadness that comes with that realization is the worst
I wish I was more interesting as a person or more talented.
Once again nothing art wise will come and work out. I have no right to even call myself an artist I suppose
I truly am uselesss, huh..
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