Catching up on National Poetry Month
Yesterday among other things I managed to drop extremely thick hot chocolate on the floor of a charity shop while juggling a book of poetry and reading from it. Said hot chocolate went everywhere, so I (having cleaned it up because I Ain't No Fuckin' Animal and those people are volunteers yo) bought the book by way of an apology; it is 1 poem a day
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I would love to hear your thoughts on looking for validation by finding others like you. (After several rounds of people like me actually not being very much like me, I'm increasingly settled on "There isn't anyone like me", and I'm mostly fine with that?)
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But the thing. The thing is it's not "there isn't anyone like me". I mean, just finding out:
The Gay Was Not Invented By You, Yourself, In Your Head, And Has Always Existed
The Trans, Similarly
You Can Be Both
These... these aren't experiences that straight/cis people have. [Tangentially reminded again of the multiple gold-medalist dressage Paralympian who remarked, on being asked whether he felt being gay or being paralysed was more of a problem for him in social and personal terms, had said, "Well, I didn't have to come out to my parents as disabled," very acidly].
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That makes sense. I think I have something of a different framework, due to different experiences, so it doesn't totally fit me, but what you're saying makes sense. I think it could be a good blog post.
(I often don't have the shared experience. I also didn't end up with the big queer group of friends Tumblr says are supposed to automatically accrue, and I have a total lack of gaydar. Basically, I am bad at identities.)
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You've never found yourself kind of taking an especial interest in historical lesbians above and beyond straight women in history?
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