June 2013
20 posts
sometimes u just need ur genitals massaged by someones mouth u know
Shoutout to all the queer and trans* parents raising their kids to be lovely and fabulous. Kudos to you for being a parent and existing in a world that tries to erase you. You are seen. You are valid. You are the fucking shit.
“I’ll state the obvious: you shouldn’t get consent because it’s sexy. You should get consent because it’s the only way to be certain that you’re not assaulting someone, and not assaulting someone is the only way to be a minimally decent human being. If getting consent is also a huge turn-on, that’s great, but it’s just the icing on the wonderful cake that is not assaulting people.”
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“Consent Is Sexy” Is Useful But Also Kind Of Sketchy » Brute Reason
THANK YOU.
(via waronxmas)
“If our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them.”
—Warsan Shire (via ethiopienne)
“You once said to me, “Essex, no one comes from their consciousness fully developed.” In that statement you summed up, for me, the daily task of being accountable to ourselves and to one another, truthful and honest, and of course open to change. Committed to change. Determined, in our willful ways to make change a reality, to replace the cages and the rooms of disempowerment where we might choose to dwell without mirrors, without reflection, without courage.”
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Letter to Audre Lorde
ESSEX HEMPHILL
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(via floricanto-desnuda)