"Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall."
@driedrosy // tumblr
"being gay and alive is a radical offensive act of protest that none of us signed up for and sometimes it can genuinley feel too hard to bear but please, please keep going. there's no better weapon against the people who want us dead than to live, and keep trying, and keep doing things that make you happy and loving eachother and thriving in whatever way you can in a world that doesn't want you. they can't get rid of us that easily."
@meatjoker
"not gay as in happy, but queer as in i love you / i don't mean this as a joke. i mean this as an expression of what queer means to me. this is the core of it: love, but radically. love, but in defiance. and i don't mean 'love is love' either; i mean love like militant solidarity between queer women and queer men and all the other iterations and permutations of both and neither and something else. i mean love like trans self love. like decolonizing gender. i mean love like found families, like vows beyond and intentionally distinct from marriage. i mean love is a riot. i mean a love that transcends hunger. i mean love like disruption, like breaking concrete foundations like frost and thaw because to live otherwise is unthinkable or unlivable or simply and plainly unwanted / i mean queer like a shot-glass or a sledgehammer. something that shatters borders, that tears down walls and does not, cannot build them. i mean genderqueer queerplatonic we're here we're queer qpoc queer theory queer liberation queer Queer QUEER"
@eternalgirlscout
"Identity is a prison! Let yourself respond authentically to each moment as it arrives, without being bound to the narrative of who you think you are! The self is a construct! The truth of your existence is ever changing and infinite as the universe is ever changing and infinite! Abandon the stories of your past selves and be present and alive in this very moment! Identity is Dead! The Self Is Dead! You Are Alive!"
@phemiec // tumblr
"what a beautiful thing, to be queer. how lovely it is to be strange, to have edges that spill out over the lines, to be undefinable. the oddity of our hearts is something to be treasured. never change for anyone."
@jupiter-suggestion // tumblr
"When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are."
J.M. Barrie, Peter & Wendy (1911)
"viewing queer identities as 'this is the label that makes me happy and feels most accurate now' rather than 'this is who I am, was, and always will be' will definitely take the pressure off, friends. changing your mind is proof that you have one."
@dragons-and-gays // tumblr
"just because coming out is brave doesn't mean being in the closet is cowardly. queer existence, queer survival is brave."
@friendlyangryfeminist // tumblr
"i saw the words "ur not the first person in your lineage to be queer" and it's rocking me to my core. how many generations down the line did one of my ancestors feel the way i did, feel differently than i did and so damn queerly it was a crime? how many of us were there? did they have hope? did they find peace? i don't know. at the very least, maybe i am proof their identity was never wasted. reincarnated."
@jedikenobiwan
messy uneven photos below that very badly need a makeover.. and there should be a lot more of them
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