Advocate.comWest Hollywood is protecting modern families. The rest of California should be next
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/california-modern-families-west-hollywood
Alex / catileptici put an inkling of the nuances i feel around the concept of "chosen family" into micro-fiction, for the writing club(s) i'm part of
https://catileptic.tech/posts/writing-exercise-amateur-arithmetic/
i want to gather my patience and explore this tension of "choice" and the emotional load of "family" more, through this story. for now, it's only a glimpse. but i kinda like the promise that it could go somewhere.
Sea of MoghDa #Ostern naht möchte ich teilen, wie sehr mir durchkommerzialisierte #pseudoreligiöse #Zwangsfeiertage und die damit verbundenen gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen widerstreben.
Besucht doch Menschen, die ihr an jedem anderen Tag auch aufrichtig mögt, genießt Lebensmittel ohne teures anlassbezogenes Branding und praktiziert kirchliche Bräuche und Traditionen, wenn euch Religion sonst auch wichtig ist. #Konsumfreiheit #entscheidungsfreiheit #religionsfreiheit #dieGedankenSindFrei #chosenfamily
Besucht doch Menschen, die ihr an jedem anderen Tag auch aufrichtig mögt, genießt Lebensmittel ohne teures anlassbezogenes Branding und praktiziert kirchliche Bräuche und Traditionen, wenn euch Religion sonst auch wichtig ist. #Konsumfreiheit #entscheidungsfreiheit #religionsfreiheit #dieGedankenSindFrei #chosenfamily
Raurquiz#Happybirthday @missjuliastiles #juliastiles #actress #producer #director #ILoveYouILoveYouNot #Wicked #10ThingsIHateAboutYou #WishYouWereHere #ChosenFamily #Orphan #FirstKill #TheGodCommittee #DowntoYou #SavetheLastDance #TheBusinessofStrangers #MonaLisaSmile #TheOmen #AGuyThing #TheBourneIdentity #Carolina #ThePrinceandMe #Edmond #ALittleTriptoHeaven #TheCryoftheOwl #SilverLiningsPlaybook #OutoftheDark #Blackway #Hustlers
WendyTonight at The Sanctuary, the young ones spread manga across the table and taught the elders how to read backward. Bara. Yuri. Gemstone characters who shatter and rebuild. #Queer #Trans #LGBTQ #Manga #AnimePride #ChosenFamily #QueerLit
The Drawn World
The Drawn World
wendythedruidhttps://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-drawn-world
A twenty-one-year-old kid from rural nowhere teaching a mountain of a man from deep Georgia how to read Japanese comics in a queer bar basement. That's the whole story. That's the whole revolution. Scissors and tape on a bedroom wall, updated for a generation that draws its own mirrors. #QueerFiction #LGBTQ #MangaCulture #ChosenFamily #QueerArt #TransLiterature
Prism & PenThis is why it is important to build a chosen family, connections you can turn to when you feel like things are a bit too rough or the days are a bit too taxing.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-digital-chosen-family-being-a-queer-pen-pal-afa0bd3b0313?sk=424a59bba02b765b6312602ede91ee6d
✿ Kamila MurkowskaI’ve always believed a door should open more than once.
Hospitality was never just about tea and polite conversation. It’s about making space. About allowing more than one story to exist under the same roof. More than one connection. More than one kind of closeness.
Those coral flip-flops by the door aren’t mine.
They aren’t my girlfriend’s either.
And that makes me smile.
They mean someone else stepped in and felt at ease. Not just at the table, but in the softer corners of our place. In the spaces where you don’t perform, where you sit closer, where you stay longer.
Some people guard love like it’s limited.
We’ve learned it expands.
Our door opens easily.
So do we.
#openhearted
#presence
#hospitality
#connection
#chosenfamily
Hospitality was never just about tea and polite conversation. It’s about making space. About allowing more than one story to exist under the same roof. More than one connection. More than one kind of closeness.
Those coral flip-flops by the door aren’t mine.
They aren’t my girlfriend’s either.
And that makes me smile.
They mean someone else stepped in and felt at ease. Not just at the table, but in the softer corners of our place. In the spaces where you don’t perform, where you sit closer, where you stay longer.
Some people guard love like it’s limited.
We’ve learned it expands.
Our door opens easily.
So do we.
#openhearted
#presence
#hospitality
#connection
#chosenfamily
By Christmas Eve ’94, I’d already learned that there are several ways to be homeless without sleeping on a sidewalk. Couch-hopping, car-sleeping, staying too long at your boyfriend’s, getting fired for looking like the wrong kind of tired. I’d done them all.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-a-southern-queer-family-rescued-me-on-christmas-eve-7e54e27bd866?sk=eb1ba0dd8f963d001f22acca1cf83df1
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