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“Lust, light, love, life all tumbled into grief.

You closed us off like a parenthesis

and left me knowing just enough to miss.”

From Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker

#poetry forms #poetry #poem #queer poetry #lesbian poetry #sapphic #Marilyn Hacker #breakup poetry #queer

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] and what a shame for a body

]to bear the burden of a body [

] on top of the grief of it as well [

— Aeon Ginsberg, from “Rest Stop Into Which I Transition As Told by Euripides”

#poetry #queer poetry #trans poetry #queer #Trans

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#leslie feinberg #queer lit #transmasc #trans literature #quotes #stone butch #stone butch blues #nonbinary #no binario #queer

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““She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” - Zora Neale Hurston”

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And I can tell

When you get nervous

You think being yourself means being unworthy

And it's hard to love with a heart that's hurting

But if you want to go out dancing

I know a place

- “I Know a Place” by MUNA

#quotes #pop music #muna #queer #lgbtq

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It’s so easy for us to forget, history

& biography share no common root.

— Torrin A. Greathouse in “There’s No Trace of the Word ‘Transgender’ in Adrienne Rich’s Biography.”

#poetry #trans poetry #lgbtq poetry #torrin a. greathouse #feminism #adrienne rich

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My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.

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“The garden is praised as a triumph, by those who don’t see the plants that failed to take.”

— How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

#novel #quote #book quotes #lgbtq books #lgbtq #c pam zhang

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“‘I remember you’ can be a compliment or a threat.”

- Joshua Wheeler in Acid West

#Joshua Wheeler #quotes #literature of the west #acid west #memory #i remember you

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Drag Me To The Capitol march and rally against anti-trans bills

Monarch, right center, leads chants in front of the Statehouse doors as protestors participate in the Drag Me To The Capitol march and rally against anti-trans bills in Montgomery, Alabama, on Tuesday May 16, 2023. The march went from the State Supreme Court building to the State Capitol building, then to the Alabama State House. [📷 Mickey Welsh / Montgomery Advertiser]

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“By my clock we were queer before we were lesbian and gay.”

—José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopía

#lgbt history #utopia #queer #queer theory #lgbtq #queer history

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“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

— Margaret Atwood

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From Marie Howe.

“To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason”

#marie howe #on writing #life quote #quotes #poetics

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From Erin Taylor’s Bimboland.

#erin taylor #bimboland #poetry #poem

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#poetry #apocalypse #apocalyptic poetry