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A psychiatrist once told me, early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you.”

“There’s all this money, all this gear, but here you two are, doing what you’ve done together since you were little girls— play pretend.”

incredible… this one will stick with me for a while

“intracommunity loyalty only goes so far, especially when it must confront the hegemony of the state”

and hello mary bronstein hello greta gerwig…. these name drops are getting sickening

the safdie brothers reveal omg

“even when sex between women was, in its own way, acknowledged, it functioned as a kind of unmooring from gender. a lesbian acted like a man but was, still, a woman; and yet she had forfeited some essential femininity”

“too many of us died to get just a little bit of us, right now, right in this kitchen.”

the last thing queer women need is bad fucking PR

Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA)

“A house is never apolitical. It is conceived, constructed, occupied, and policies by people with powers, needs, and fears.”

Once, when Laura came out of their bedroom in cutoffs and a bikini top, John looked at her with real, uncomplicated love and said, “Girl, I want to dig you a watering hole.”

“Holes that make it impossible to give oneself a context”

“sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our history”

I say I’m only twenty-three and she says, “Screw the calendar. What does a calendar know about love?”

“bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do you see the point my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender/ my love is too delicate to have thrown back in my face”