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Hannibal and Queer-Baiting [ General spoilers below for both seasons ] Queer-baiting, the act of hinting at queer characters or relationships without ever openly acknowledging them, is a hot topic...
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Writing Realistic Aces, or: On Listening to Your Characters (March 2015 Carnival of Aces) [ This is my first submission for Carnival of Aces! Hope I didn’t fuck it up. ] I have been writing about the...
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Asexual/Allosexual Relationships and Sex [ Warning to friends/family/others: I’m going to discuss my sex life below. If that’s TMI for you, I suggest not reading this. ] After reading...
View Article#1575 – Opening the Gates of “Queer”
After I commented on MyBeautifulMachine’s post “Allegiances, Language, and Space,” he asked me to write a guest post about identity policing and the term “queer”. I can only speak to my experience in...
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Alice rolled over in the dark, reaching automatically for Muffy’s warm body; when her hands felt only cold sheets on the other side of the bed, she sat up with a frown. By the dim light of...
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Get ready for some word vomit, ’cause I’m thinking about labels. About the people who say we shouldn’t use them. “Labels are for soup cans” and all of that. Um… no? Labels are descriptors. “Short hair...
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if they hit you turn the other cheek and ask them to brand it if they burn you lift up your arm and ask them to cut it if they kick you bare your throat and ask them to crush it because the price to...
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I can handle the mud-slinging (even if there are rocks mixed in) the broken bones from sticks and stones (though words do carry a bite) because even though I’m not that strong what if there is someone...
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The goddesses who have sought me out are so different from me. Bast and Inanna both are goddesses of love, of sensuality and sexuality, of hot desert days and cold desert nights. What do these aspects...
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“Invitation (to Leave)” If you are a biggot, get out. If you are a biggot, a racist, a bully, A troll-er, a trash-er, a happiness bash-er… If you’re proud of ignorance, well hey, there’s the door, Go...
View Article#1609 – Marriage Equality
victory achieved so today we celebrate tomorrow we fight I could weep for joy right now, or scream, or dance (but I’m at work so I won’t). Marriage equality is now the law of the land, and though I’m...
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#SaveHannibal queer platonic love with a side order of blood so save Hannibal!Filed under: asexuality, other, poetry
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Roses are red violets are blue; defining who’s queer is not up to you. [ Okay, this is kind of a toss-away poem, but it’s been popular on my Tumblr so I figured, why not post it here for Asexuality...
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Asexuality and Paganism (for May 2016’s Carnival of Aces) Standing in the Kemetic section of Crescent Moon Gifts, I waivered. On the shelf before me was a beautiful statue of Bast, lithe form poised to...
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Asexuality, Spirituality, and Queerness (for May 2016’s Carnival of Aces) When I was a kid, I had very strong opinions about romance and sex, and those opinions basically boiled down to GROSS. Romance...
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What makes something brave? Is bravery in the action, or in the intent behind the action? I don’t think I’m brave. I’m white and attractive and middle-class. My parents loved me and I have no student...
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I am not the enemy just because I’m tired of invisibility; I am not an intruder just because I’m sick of your slander; I am not an oppressor just because you think my pain is lesser; I am not your...
View ArticleWords Thoughts Fragments Ep. 6
In this special episode, I take a break from my usual sarcasm to respond to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, address some of the backlash I witnessed in the queer community because of the...
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Hi, friends. Let’s talk about hate blogs. The Forty-two Ideals of Ma’at. The Rule of Three. The Ten Commandments. Karma. There are a lot of tenets in a lot of belief systems, both religious and...
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What’s in a name? That which we call Rosa by any other name would smell as sweet. And yet we give each of a hundred species a name and a name to each of a thousand cultivars. Would you deny Rosa...
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