It’s almost time!
I’m speaking here this year! I’ll be doing a “Sexual Politics of Topping” workshop
We reached $110 in less than 24 hours for Ali Forney Center (LGBTQ youth centered destroyed by Sandy) by selling $4 bookmark packages! See how a small contribution helps? Keep the orders coming! They make great gifts…
100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of my bookmarks will be donated to the Ali Forney Center. This is all I have to sell and contribute, the things I have made.
With so many communities and neighbors in need, the decision to pick one recipient was a tough one. When I read that Ali Forney was flooded and shut down, I immediately thought of all my LGBTQ students over the years who have lived in quiet fear or have been kicked out of their families home due to revealing their identity. This shelter had always been incredibly relevant for these reasons, and I am moved to help them reopen their doors as soon as possible.
Read about Ali Forney Center’s devastation here.
Buy bookmarks (they make great gifts!) and contribute with us.
(via rkb)
For me, femme is about healing
it is about the rituals of adornment that I use to calm my anxiety, and quell my tears after days where transphobia slips under my skin like stubborn splinters
it is about reaching across time, bridging the distance between the man I am and the girl I was.
it is about finding that girl in the recesses of my heart, holding him in my arms, and saying “it will be okay, we made it out alive.”
it is about finding a way to be a boy that doesn’t hurt.
it is about nurturing all the femme parts of myself that I suffocated, just so the boy part of myself might be visible to other people.
For me, femme is about resistance
it is about refusing to believe that there is a right way to be a man
it is about glitter armor and gestural fierceness coating my spirit so that I might just be strong enough to survive
it is about reclaiming and flaunting all of the parts of my femininity that have been used to say that the sexual assaults were my fault
For me, femme is about healing, resistance, survival.
Somedays, femme is all I have.
(via scarletlotus)
