Status Updates From Homeless: Growing Up Lesbia...

“I also think it’s more possible as a queer woman to defy beauty standards because the idea of feminine beauty is so often depicted through a male gaze; beauty standards are a product of patriarchy meant for the gratification of heterosexual men. So what if those men don’t find me attractive? Doesn’t affect me one way or the other.”

"“There is hope for me because I did get out of the Brahmin mindset with regard to sex. When I think about how I came out to my mother, I think she was more disturbed that I had had pre-marital sex than that I had same-sex sex. Good Brahmin girls only had post-marital sex till they made two or three babies. I’m not a good Brahmin girl, I’ve had sex before marriage, and the kind that can’t even make babies.”