It’s really interesting to me when people find my work confronting, or talk about it being challenging, because that’s not my aim in it. That’s not how I think about it, because I’m trying to centre these so-called marginalised experiences, and just in a way that it’s natural to me to do that… my main purpose is when someone says to me, ‘Oh, that really resonated with me, I found that a really empowering image,’ Like that’s my audience. That’s what I’m aiming for. And I think that if someone finds it challenging I feel like, oh, that’s probably because you are used to seeing aspects of your experience as normal, and I’m not intentionally trying to be provocative. I’m actually trying to thrive and survive despite being provoked every day by racism, patriarchy, ableism, etcetera.

TextaQueen, from https://vimeo.com/204834330

bisexualshakespeare:

“I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?”

— Michael Warner, “Tongues Untied” in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (216)

trintity-taytor:

mens-rights-activia:

The real reason why we get back pain is because we are all descendants of Julius Caesar and when Brutus stabbed him in the back, the shock of it created a genetic imprinting in our DNA and thus, the back pain we experience is the same back pain Caesar felt when he was brutally stabbed. So when Brutus stabbed Caesar in the back, we were all stabbed in the back. We are all one stab, the human stab. Holmes & Watson (1887)

The horrifying implication that Caesar impregnated someone post mortem