Status Updates From Sister Outsider

«but i have peeled away your anger / down to the core of love (...) i learned from you / to define myself / through your denials.» oh this is gonna hurt so bad isnt it

how is every single one a hit. good lorde she doesn't miss

“How do you reach down into threatening difference without being killed or killing?…. And putting yourself on the line is like killing a piece of yourself, in the sense that you have to kill, end, destroy something familiar and dependable, so that something new can come, in ourselves, in our world.”

“The way you get people to testify against themselves is not to have police tactics and oppressive techniques. What you do is to build it in so people learn to distrust everything in themselves that has not been sanctioned, to reject what is most creative in themselves to begin with, so you don’t even need to stamp it out.”

Everyday I think about writing, painting, poetry and just about anything that is a vulnerable form of self expression. For a long time I haven’t had the strength to do much of any of those things and I haven’t understood why, but I think I am starting to get a grip on it now. It’s a mixture of misogyny, transphobia, social media culture and capitalism.

One that I had already started, but never listed