Tongue in Cheek and Other Places: A Seriously Humorous Look at Queer Life

Cause you never completely have your rights until you all have your rights. Pride is a protest. Queer history often bends to the cis, white, and gay. Even if you don't care about history, BlackLesbianArchives is an awesome corrective to the trend. At fewer than 1, followers, the account doesn't currently have the following of some of the others on this list, which is exactly why you should follow it.

The account zigzags back and forth through crucial moments black lesbian history.

I'm a huge history archivist, so having this information available is crucial to me. I figured if I'm searching for this, then I know there's other people in the world probably wondering where we at. Jewelle Gomez - Author, Activist.

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A post shared by BLA blacklesbianarchives on Mar 7, at 9: A post shared by BLA blacklesbianarchives on Feb 26, at 4: This moment in herstory Writings by Radical Women of Color", published in , garnered attention for women of color within the feminist movement. Hailed as a landmark book offering a collective, serious challenge to white feminists by women of color, "This Bridge" reshaped how feminism was revised, reconceptualized, expanded, and laid the groundwork for the centrality of intersectionality today.

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The third edition, published by Third Woman Press, was in print until For seven years, the book was virtually gone. Top row, left to right: Bottom row, left to right: Photo by Susan Fleischmann. A post shared by BLA blacklesbianarchives on May 9, at 8: Let's not lie, is a low point for planet Earth.

But Xenaworrierprincess offers some of the funniest damn queer memes on the internet, and for that, we should be grateful. It was a really surreal, lonely relationship to my sexuality," she says. Tumblr was really, really text-heavy. A lot of the queer discourse was bad. We were all babies, trying to make sense of the world without any lived experience. Blair Imani is a black queer Muslim activist and, with more than 28, followers, an Instagram star. Imani's account defies constricting stereotypes that people can't be queer and Muslim or a person of color.

I do exist," Imani told Teen Vogue recently. A post shared by Blair Imani blairimani on May 31, at A post shared by Blair Imani blairimani on Jun 2, at 7: With more than , followers, Herstory is the leading queer women-specific history account on Instagram.

I post mostly herstoric photos and images from the s to the late s," founder Kelly Rakowski told Mashable. People seem to really respond the images and stories I post.

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Photo Ernie Panniccoli rg cornellhiphopcollection lesbianculture tracychapman Astrology is having a moment, and queer astrologers like Chani Nicholas are leading the way. You can head to her Instagram for the best queer-friendly, loving, affirming horoscopes on the internet. We need more public spaces that welcome and help us hold our grief. So much of this world is constructed to make us suffer. So that we feel less than. So that we will buy more of. Forgetting who we are. Forsaking so much of what we have to give.

Depression is a natural side effect of the violent systems we live within. May we all do what we can to recreate the world today as we need it to be. With room to grieve. A post shared by Chani Nicholas chaninicholas on Jun 8, at Emotions need to be expressed. Left alone they fester. Twist themselves into strange monsters that lurk in the shadows of our lives.

Threaten to wreck what is working. The world is a dumpster fire of injustice. It is constructed to keep us separate from our power.

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We need to both construct, and get ourselves to, the spaces that reflect our beauty and our becoming. The spaces that help us sort through the situations that bewilder, betray, and become too difficult to carry alone. Each interaction that is done in kindness can become one of those spaces. A post shared by Chani Nicholas chaninicholas on Jun 12, at 7: Samira Wiley doesn't provide queer history or astrological wisdom on her account, and that's okay.

Sometimes all you need is a simple, relentlessly positive, thirsty queer account in your feed. A post shared by Samira Wiley whododatlikedat on Jan 6, at 8: Thank you, again, disneyland for these dope rosegoldchurros!!!!! Yes, that is a thing. And for making our 1st anniversary so magical. A post shared by Samira Wiley whododatlikedat on Mar 27, at Jonathan Van Ness is a ray of queer sunshine, and we're all desperate for a little light in these sad times. His account features some of the best selfies on the whole damn site. What we see on Queer Eye is that the burdens of toxic masculinity are not only ours to bear.

We see men on the show who are truly lonely and isolated. Of course, there is much work to be done if women want parity, but the first step might very well be empowering men to be vulnerable. Within the first few episodes of the Netflix reboot, one of the hosts has addressed his fear of police from the black male perspective. Another explains his complex relationship with Christianity, and the five of them together manage to rattle a black, gay man out of his closeted cage with all the love and compassion and humour you could ask for.

This, my friends, is how to be a man! We perform another role, too. Emotional labour is being revealed as one of the other reasons women are so damn tired. Trying to cushion a male partner from feeling incompetent or inadequate or anything less than delighted, lest they leave you for the secretary is an exhausting task.

But is this why heterosexual married men live longer than those who are unmarried? Because there are women to vent to? I break down my walls and tell people my real truth with such ease that it sometimes astounds me when I see my male friends unable to do the same.

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The feminine characteristics that are so often negatively associated with being gay are the qualities we need men to embrace. And at the most, bring a little more queerness into your life. Penelope Blackmore is a former Australian Olympic gymnast. Order by newest oldest recommendations.