It’s nice out so I sat down at this bench on a pedestrian friendly street in my neighborhood to eat my to-go food and drink my iced mocha. all these people keep walking by me and staring like they’ve never seen a faggot on a bench before.
Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis” (via “MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up” on autostraddle)
(Source: sansastone, via nickeyrobo)
This week on Heartbeats: Jackie and Berlin! <3
Even though Jackie and me grew up in the same city, I became aware of her awesomeness on the internet after we both had moved away (thank u, tumblr). She has definitely been an inspiration for me as a fat woman of colour navigating whiteness and fat phobia, not just through solidarity, but also because she is unapologetically who she is which has been my biggest struggle, hence this blog project. Jackie is also a co-founder of It Gets Fatter, “a body positivity project started by fat queer people of colour, for fat people of colour!” I would highly recommend checking out their videos on Vimeo.
Joining Jackie on this crush-worthy post is her boyfriend, Berlin Reed. He is a chef who just published a really great book called The Ethical Butcher: How Thoughtful Eating Can Change Your World (it’s on Amazon if you can’t access a local shop.) His bio describes him as “a food warrior and radical food theorist bent on decolonizing cuisine.” SWOON. Catch him on tour right now!
On a very personal note: I can’t even tell you how special it was to photograph these two. I have never witnessed brown love like this, queer brown love. The experience made me want to keep searching for brown bodies to project out into the world. This is how we heal.
THESE QTies are looking SO GOOD! <3
YAY BROWN LOVE!
(via queerbrownlove)
refreshing shower, rose quartz plugs, rescue remedy, and giving myself a tarot reading as self-care and guidance before seeing my dad for the first time in almost 2 years.
Psychiatrists Under Fire in Mental Health Battle
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/psychiatrists-under-fire-mental-health
Psychiatry Divided As Mental Health Bible Denounced
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23487-psychiatry-divided-as-mental-health-bible-denounced.html
DSM-V Is Guide Not Bible — Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201212/dsm-5-is-guide-not-bible-ignore-its-ten-worst-changes?page=2
NIMH vs DSM-V: No One Wins
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/nimh-vs-dsm-5-no-one-wins_b_3252323.html
The New Criteria for Mental Disorders
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/the-new-criteria-for-mental-disorders.html
These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign."
