Why It's Important To Admit That Being Trans Can Be Funny - The Establishment
“When I meet up with my trans friends, what stands out is how much we laugh. It can be because of internet memes or jokes, but more often, it has to do with the practical realities of living life while trans. Writing your deed poll, a legal document that proves a change of name, on the back of an envelope (it’s legal no matter where you write it!) and then losing it when you want to show your bank … how tucking can go wrong … everything surrounding bathrooms …
This can all be funny.”
These rising filmmakers are finally bringing two-spirited stories to the screen
10 Queer Women and Non-binary People of Color Using Media & Art to Get Free
Artists to check out!
XQsí Magazine — The rise of genderqueer youth in popular culture
Benji Delgadillo,a 16-year-old who identifies as a genderqueer,
transgender, pansexual male, talks about the intersection of race and
access to (gender/)queer identities.
The story of Stonewall is becoming a young adult book.
When the history civil rights is taught in school, the fight for LGBT equality is often overlooked. But now thanks to Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, a new young adult non-fiction book by author Ann Bausum, young people may finally get the info they need to hear.
We live at a time when “coming out” has become a demand—“be who you are.” There is a demand here, a demand to embody something that is becoming fixed and knowable. A demand that refuses exploration and experimentation, that refuses indecision and confusion. I continue to hold on to the promise of queerness—not the sophomoric “don’t label or classify me,” but the openness of becoming, what José Muñoz theorized so beautifully as the queerness to come, the queerness that will be, an opening into futures we can imagine, futures we can make.
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“Queers fracture families” - this line shattered me
(via kawrage)
And that concludes today’s vocab lesson.
