Status Updates From Verbundensein

“(…) the desire to live a routine life. I crave what society tells me will complete me. I crave a femme for my butch, a house of our own, a union of two with children who resemble us, enough money to protect us from hardship. Despite the fact that this white-picket dream is a product of the popular imagination and is actually completely at odds with my core beliefs,”

“‘The ability to express empathy – the capacity to share and feel another's emotions – is limited by the stress of being around strangers.’”

“‘The ability to express empathy – the capacity to share and feel another's emotions – is limited by the stress of being around strangers’”