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mine is so accurate im screaminggg
Can we talk about brown eyes? Like, they're so pretty and seriously don't get enough credit and in books they're always described as either mud, dirt or chocolate and it's so mundane. Brown eyes are freaking gorgeous. Holy fish, they aren't even brown. They are copper against honey and they're sunlight through a bottle of whiskey and they are the color of earth after it rains. They're hazelnuts and gingerbread men and chocolate brownies and they're the feeling of the feeling of coming inside from the biting cold and wrapping yourself in a blanket on the sofa and they're cocoa and tea and coffee. They're cinnamon and ginger and cassia and the dust from a horse's hooves and they're so damn beautiful it blows my mind that people think they're common and boring.
Glennon Doyle, Untamed
dw if I die I will still haunt the narrative
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The queer community is full of hurt people.
This can lead to a knee-jerk reaction when we hear someone else say "I am hurt". We look at them and say "shut up, you're not as hurt as me because you have X privilege".
This leads to femme afab queers being told "you can pass and hide as cishet, you're not as hurt as queer women who look queer, you're just complying with the patriarchy's ideals for beauty, you're hurting the queer community, you're anti feminist."
It leads to masc afab people, whether trans men or nonbinary or genderqueer etc, being told everything from "you're not as hurt, you can pass as a cis man" to "you have no desire to transition, you still look like a girl, shut up".
It leads to trans amab people who are nonbinary or genderqueer or agender etc, who still dress or look "masculine", being told that they are "unsafe" for queer spaces, that they don't belong at a "women and nonbinary meeting", that they are "basically just cis men trying to escape accountability".
It leads to asexuals being told "you don't even feel sexual attraction, the thing we're ostracized for! how could you possibly be oppressed? You're just straight and a prude" and aromantics being told "you're just straight and like casual sex, get over yourself" and both being told "you're just a cishet who wants to steal resources".
I have heard every single kind of queer person say "I have been harmed and ostracized by the queer community". Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and mspec people, trans people, aroace people - every single one of us has expressed feeling ostracized by our own community.
On the plus side, this means you're not alone. Your group isn't the only one facing this. You have allies!! Other queer people who have gone through what you've gone through!
We need queer unity. We need to stop attacking each other. If you feel the urge to say "shut up, my group has been hurt MORE", go take a walk. Remember that every single one of us has been hurt.
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