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I truly believe there’s a type of self-awareness that can only be gained through the intense self exploration and understanding that queer ppl MUST undergo to become a version of themselves that’s completely them and soooo different from what we’ve been told to be. I don’t think I could ever be with someone who lacked that… This chapter tore me UP in all the best ways😭🩷

I looooove the line “These were burly, big-shouldered he-she’s who carried their womanhood in work-roughened hands.” The idea that womanhood can look SO vastly different than the way it’s been defined for us is sooooo important to me. I love that this book treats that idea like second nature!

"Oh, they love each other alright. You can see that. But it doesn't necessarily mean they're hot and bothered for each other. They really understand each other. Maybe each of them just likes looking in the other's mirror and seeing a reflection that smiles back."

GODDDD

“I wondered if my clumsiness allowed her to be more excited with me than she could have been if I was experienced”

yepyepyepyepyep

“You made me ache and you liked that. So did I”

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Wow what a start to the day! I get reminded SO much of my relationship with my mother while reading this😭

It’s so hard not to tear up a little every couple of chapters

I’m obsessed w the imagery in this book… I’m feeling nostalgic over a random town in Oregon that I’ve literally never been to.

Wait for me west coast…

“White people were always going to the doctor”

😭

I’m really just not super impressed with the writing hear. I think the premise is really interesting though and I’m hoping the more I read the less vague the memory police itself becomes

Wowww her essay on the erotic as power was incredible. Lorde is able to word her philosophies so well… I liked this quote:

“when we look away from ourselves as we satisfy our erotic needs in concert with others, we use each other as objects of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying, rather than make connection with our similarities and our differences.”

Napoleon rly thinks hes that bitch I’m crying

Really cool first chapter.

Another instance where I would’ve loved to have seen just a little more depth here. Like I am intruige by the observation of “They think about hoes versus women, good girls versus fast girls.” But attributing that cycle to “putting relationships and familial love over self love” feels like ignoring a bigger issue😭

Taylor Swift wrote “cancelled” for June