Surprise! You can create and maintain boundaries while also having sympathy/empathy for the pain and trauma that led the other person to the behavior you're removing yourself from.
*taps mic*
Is this thing on?
If the world owes me nothing, I owe the world nothing.
It's also a 3D model, but I'm still working on that part...
When forces intersect at the middle, that's where balance is found. Not in an ignorance of surrounding opposition, but peace in knowing than movement is life and stagnation is not actually rest.
I believe that the truth of things is found in the happy medium, the push and pull of different energies to continue the cycle of time and progress. One extreme or the other is temporary, but not unnecessary. It's that meaning is found by intersection and healthy opposition.
A glass fountain pen covered in purple ink is held in a white person's hand, the fingers splattered with ink as well. The tip of the pen is poised over a page covered in cursive writing. A phrase is underlined that says "the truth is in the tension". Most other writing is purposefully illegible.
I have a theory that every black/white dialectic is actually a full color spectrum infinity sign, a la the new Autism symbol. That's not why, it just happens to fit.
Reposting this since I have more followers now. I'm very proud of this poem, especially this particular performance. Let me know what you think!
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🏳️⚧️🕯🕯🕯 Hail The Travelers. Today we Honor the dearly departed. #transdayofrememberance
Say gay, protect trans kids, read banned books, teach all history. Be kind!
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Supporting all of these 💛
LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
BLM 🖤
Free Palestine ☮︎
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Indigenous People 🫶
Women’s Rights 💖
Pro-Choice ❤️🔥
Gender Identity 🤍
Mental Health Awareness 🎗
Autism Awareness ♾
Disability Awareness 🏥
I’m simply saying that we should at least begin the discussions.
Christian nationalism
is just white supremacists twisting the word of their god for hatred
We should call them what they are
religious white supremacist zealots
& stop coddling them by using their coded language
where my gay witches at??
#gaywitchcraft #wicca #lgbtq #gay #wiccan #witch #witchcraft #nature #love #art #magic #blueskywitches
all I'm saying is don't think the revolution looks just one way, so stop shaming people for being more comfortable with a different one.
speak up at holiday dinners if it is safe or something you can do within your abilities. not everyone is an orator, but you can learn some "shut down Oppression talk" phrases if needed.
not attending a protest because of disability, visible or not, is valid. what matters is what you do instead. try volunteering in another way. be deliberate in learning so that when you volunteer you are informed.
having the ability to go to a protest, any protest, is a privilege. not everyone can physically walk far. some people get claustrophobic too easily. others might have a temper and not want to ruin the cause by virtue of popping off at the wrong time or in the wrong way.
agreed. Tempest is my favorite artist in divination. 💜💜💜💜
The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse
A most appropriate introduction of myself to
#SkyPoets
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An ode to my ex-step-mother's fascination with "The Polyamorous Gays in their Bondage Leathers"
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