"In every era of U.S. history, queer folks carved out their spaces despite criminalization, discrimination, and violence. We must have faith that we can do it again now." The inimitable @raquelwillis.com's words to trans youth in @teenvogue.bsky.social
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I loved that too!
“There’s no stopping us tonight
We won’t go down without a fight
We’ve got the goal within our sights
Trans rights are human rights!”
Pax Ressler really gave us something beautiful in this piece, I’ll be shouting it forever.
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This song was commissioned for Columbus Gay Men's Chorus and I was so proud to perform it with them last year at a festival full of other queer choruses who are now adding it to their performances. Check out the Portland Lesbian Choir’s gorgeous rendition! 🥰
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I know I’m kind of Going Through A Lot right now because I’m crying about a post a friend made about house plants. 😭🪴
It’s meeeeeeee! 😂😂😂😂
🙋🏻♀️ I already have an awkward, queer, nerdy sibling, but they’re super great so I’d definitely take another. I’m also all of those things. Welcome to the fam! 🏳️🌈
Text of the poem “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.
“I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.”
- Maggie Smith
#AwayMessageJukebox
Close up photograph of a black and white cat named Kes with a little black mustache and goatee lying on a mint green blanket and looking very cozy.
Just the world’s cuddliest cat.
This was my favorite piece I’ve ever gotten to sing with Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus. I cried every time. Performing it at GALA Festival in the summer and then hearing how many choruses are wanting to perform it themselves now was so cool. I hope my trans pals hear this and feel strengthened by it. 🏳️⚧️
This is one of my favorite things we’ve done with CGMC. ❤️😭