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I hope queer readers of color walk away with that slightly breathless feeling that happens after finishing a great story. I want that to occur without the awful heart-sinking anxiety that wells in your chest when you realize no one in the story looks or loves like you do (again)
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lesbiansofimportance: “ Marie “Riese” Bernard (Editor-in-Chief ) and Alexandra Vega (Design Director): Co-Founders of Autostraddle, an independently owned online magazine and social network for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women (cis and trans), as...
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Marie “Riese” Bernard (Editor-in-Chief ) and Alexandra Vega (Design Director): Co-Founders of Autostraddle, an independently owned online magazine and social network for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women (cis and trans), as well as non-binary people 

“We’re not just writers who are hired to go into an office every day and write our stories,” Bernard says. “We connect with readers on and off-site, and we have camp where we meet people and have cabins and build a family in real life. We—the writers, the team—need the readers as much as they need us.”
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I WAS A FOOL BACK THEN. Yes, my mortar and pestle is indeed great for making guacamole, but it is so much more than that. I can hardly believe I used to CHOP GARLIC. Chopping garlic probably took whole days off of my life. I put garlic in almost everything. The chopping never ended. But now, I don’t chop my garlic; I pound it in my mortar and pestle.
Rise and Grind: Become a Mortar and Pestle Snob With These 25 Recipes
It’s still completely acceptable for disabled people to hate ourselves. Expected, even. Most discussions of ableism prioritize its external forms: staircases without ramps, misguided offers of help, applauding disabled people for being “so brave.” Disability itself remains something we “tolerate” or “live with” (but would, of course, “fix” if we could). That kind of ableism – that turns us against ourselves by lying about what success, politeness, health, and independence look like – isn’t broadly acknowledged as internalized oppression yet. But we can still start unlearning it.
Carrie Wade, Telling Myself the Truth: 5 Strategies for Fighting Internalized Ableism
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When I reflect on this reality it is no surprise that that my longing feels silly, misplaced, and less worthy. How could an incapacitated person feel let alone be sexy, I catch myself thinking. Now, when I have those thoughts, I take out my camera. In an image-based culture, the ability to create and disseminate images of the doubly disenfranchised body is an act of radical affirmation. To be ill is to be stripped of control. To create a static image of the debilitated body in a state of ecstasy is to self determine. It renders that body capable.
Liz von Klemperer, Sexts From My Sickbed: How I Learned to Love My Queer Sick Body by Getting Naked