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Look it’s me! the blonde in the green tank top looking very severe and proud to be here!
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For our first ever New York City #Pride, we’re so excited to unveil our big project, #Queeroes2018. Comprised of the individuals who inspired us the most so far this year — #JanetMock, #TravonFree, #HayleyKiyoko, #JillSoloway, #NicolaFormichetti, and beyond — these are the modern-day queer heroes we so desperately need. We’ll be honoring some of them tonight. Thanks to @whotels and @healthysexual. Art by @artbycheyne
Since I’ve been away, I’ve watched the start and end of migration season and looking for all the different species that have gone all the way to the States, lived a life and come back, I’ve both identified and envied the freedom of soaring over a border unencumbered. So, this is what the immigration process does: it makes you feel alone. It reduces you to a few pages and it expects you to be the exact person they want you to be. There are no gestures of kindness, there is no empathy, there’s just a cold, empty form that’s holding your future ransom in exchange for your personal information. So instead of dwelling on the inevitable, I bird.
Isa Alcantara via Migration Season
Watching my first girlfriend masturbate was honestly one of the most mind blowing sex things I’ve ever done. The experience was incredibly intimate, and the knowledge I gained from watching her touch herself was basically a fast pass to orgasms. We only did it once, but it informed every time I slept with her after that, and the technique I learned from her is still how I masturbate to this day. I cannot recommend this enough.
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This Saturday is my very favorite thing: the annual All Ages Pride Party in NYC!! Co-hosting with me will be the one and only @autowin — we will have spoken word from @urbanwordnyc, music from @emilywellsmusic & @oranicuhh, and cupcakes from @rarabakesnyc!! All in the beautiful, wonderful @housingworksbks and sponsored by our favorites, the @teganandsarafoundation ♥️🌈 It’s free! 1-3pm! Come hang!
Kink is a way to intentionally engage with systems of power. As a kinky person, you can opt in, you can opt out, you can play, you can exchange, you can give, you can take, you can end it at any time. Power is everywhere, whether or not you’re practicing power play. It is yours to leave or to take. But as a queer person, you can’t opt into or out of those systems of power. You can’t end them at any time. There’s no safeword for your parents kicking you out before you’ve finished high school. For your new grandma-in-law getting homophobic and transphobic at your wedding reception. For your government telling you whether or not your partnership can have legal protection, telling you it can, and then taking it away. Whether or not you engage with kink as an identity or as a practice, being kinky means you get to manipulate and objectify systems of power. Being queer means you are subject to them.
Lying in bed, she asked why I thought she’d be into women, and I tried to explain that Indian norms are full of moments Americans consider to be flirting. “Holding hands doesn’t mean anything,” she said. “It must be so sad to not touch your friends.”
Bicycling Across India, Learning About Queerness and Intimacy Along the Way
Rachael Zimmerman, the photographer behind the “Inside the Black Triangle” series, is hosting an Autostraddle Pride meet-up in Denver this weekend. Check out her photos and find out more on Autostraddle dot com.
via Bex Taylor-Klaus Bends Gender, Blends Styles in This Hot Photoshoot
Photographer: Mark Hill
Representation: AgencyMJ
Make-up: Saj MackWardrobe: Hannah GuthrieStudio: Ambient Plus Studio, Atlanta, GAClothing: Button down shirts provided by Androgynous Fox, underwear is by TomboyX
I think if I could make an app where you could just insert all the facts of a person’s life into it, like pictures of everybody you’ve ever wanted to fuck and a list from your middle school diary of all your best best girlfriends and a portfolio of every celebrity you ever google image searched and a gender analysis of every person who’s ever charmed you and then the app would print out a sexual orientation label for you, I would be a billionaire and we could all live on a big queer commune together.
Riese via You Need Help: What’s My Label?
me, during a villanelle scene in killing eve: i love this bitch
autostraddle: butch*