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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”

“There is no such thing as privacy. There is no experience or quality or thought or pain that has not been felt by all the billions of living and dead.”

“I am the sort of person who needs to feel some measure of fear in order to love someone. My first love had been-privately, embarrassingly- God itself, something that made me. something that could destroy me, every mortal relation that came after, until her, had always fallen short of the total metaphysical satisfaction I’d felt in prayer.”

every form of woman you’ve become and i become

as if she’d been Godtouched to do this very thing

My husband is the prototype for all of Gods molds