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if i didn’t assert my rage
if i didn’t assert my right to be angry
if i didn’t assert the validity of my experiences
if i didn’t assert my knowledge
if i didn’t assert my passion
if i didn’t assert my love
if i didn’t assert my hurt
if i didn’t assert when someone else hurts mei’m not sure how i would survive
i’m not sure you would see mebut i’m still made to feel guilty for it.
"grieving you is as complicated as loving you and appreciating your beauty has been…i solemnly swear that i will continuously delegitimize, defile and undermine the fucked up ways that this world tries to erase and destroy people whose bodies and gender and beauty highlight the fake and deeply troubling origins of a social reality that hurts and kills us."
mmmajestic, on grieving mark aguhar (via countercourant)
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"Femme is about being a babe inside of your own brain.
It’s about feeling like you are taking care of you.
It’s about knowing that you have assembled a team of experts – friends, partners, chosen family, lovers, mentors – to go through your life with. People who will see you the way you see you, and who aren’t afraid to set you to rights when you need a talking to.
Femme is about trusting your own conceptions of beauty, power, pleasure, and generosity.
If “femininity” is defined according to (sexist!) social expectations and separated entirely from “masculinity,” then Femme is looking over its shoulder and laughing at all those rules.
"-On Being a Babe Inside Your Own Brain
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