if you are 25 or older, Project Acorn is still looking for ROCs to apply!
You have until May 3rd, so check out if it might be something you are interested in~!
And for those of y’all 25+
APPLY TO BE A ROC AT PROJECT ACORN!
If you feel you could take on a support role for this emotionally intense 4 day retreat, and co-facilitate some amazing workshops based on your skills and knowledge:
Get it in.
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APPLY TO BE A PARTICIPANT AT PROJECT ACORN 2013!
Project Acorn is a community building space for people ages 16-24 of LGBTQ+ communities, families, and identities. It’s a 4 day retreat in July, and it is amaaaaazing~
I am, again this year, on the Youth Advisory Committee, and I am v much looking forward to another year’s program of learning and unlearning and FEELING, and safety and love,
so if you’re interested, It wouldn’t hurt to apply!
If you have any questions about logistics, or the program, or anything, Let me know, and I will help to the extent I can, or direct you to somebody who can!
And feel free to signal boost, y’all!
Official fanclub post for ‘the cute queer looking dancer in Justin Bieber’s Beauty and a Beat’
with special guest ‘this other really pretty one who also dances very well’
writing notes on gay semiotics at gay Bridgehead for a workshop on queer expression through fashion.
this is my life now.
YO
EVERYBODY
SEND ME YOUR FAVOURITE QUEER FASHION BLOGS
ALSO ARTICLES, PICTURES, ETC.
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I am so fucking tired of talking about my gender.
Like fuck,it is what it is, and I’ve figured it all the fuck out, I don’t need to talk it out or explain it to some fuckhead cis people.
And like, I am always cool with med students being present etc etc
but the fact that cis people want to work with youth with gender issues, and mental illness,
like fuck. Fuck that.
I feel so fucking objectified all the time. Why do I have to jump through hoops, and go through all these motions just to get hormones? Who’s business is it to decide for me what I can and can’t do with my body? Whether I really am trans?
No matter which way you swing it, it is gatekeeping. And I hate it. I’m tired of it.
I feel like a lesser human being. These people are all observing me, taking pity on me.
And of course they’re not going to understand my relationships either, and try to fit my queer relationships in to their tiny little heteronormative boxes,
fuck.
“So you’re gay, as in you as a man?”
YES FUCK MOVE IT ALONG
why the FUCK does it even matter? You’re here to assess my god damn mood disorder, why do I have to explain my gender and sexuality to you? “That sounds really confusing.” No it’s not fucking confusing, I fucking live it. It might be confusing to you, because you expect me to fit a certain set of “symptoms” but FUCK YOU, THIS ISN’T A MENTAL ILLNESS. YOU CAN’T ANALYZE MY GENDER LIKE A MENTAL ILLNESS.
I just. Feel. Like I constantly have to prove myself. And go through the same fucking story, to appeal to stupid fucking cis people who feel they have a right to my story, and a right to fucking DOUBT me.
I am not an object. I am not a mental illness. I am a person. I am a person with a gender, and a mental illness, that are SURPRISE SURPRISE completely separate from eachother, and I DON’T HAVE TO TELL YOU ALL THIS. Especially when you’ll never understand it, and you’re going to try to HEAL me for having relationship dynamics that you see as negative because they’re not normal monogamous hetero feelingless nonesense. Nobody has that. Hetero people don’t even have that. Go fuck yourself.
I do remember yooou!
Actually, Project Acorn is run by Ten Oaks, which runs Camp Ten Oaks for youth ages 8-16 for a week in August.
It’s not quite the same, more of a fun camp experience than more workshop-focussed, (though Acorn does have fun camp activities and whatnot,) but it’s a really great program, and tons of fun.
Project Acorn is a radical community-building space for youth aged 16-24 from LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities. For four days, Project Acorn brings together youth and those in solidarity with youth and creates a safe, empowering, and liberating space, where people can share knowledge, make connections, and build bridges. The retreat is a mixture of workshops, speakers, typical camp activities, and magic that come together to create the most mind-opening and mind-blowing retreat possible. We want to create space to challenge the ways we think about gender and sexuality, and we want to be at the front of this movement!
chibiwaja replied to your post: A note about your reply to that last anon — it sounded like you linked asexuality and not having sex, but it’s entirely possible to be ace and still have sex. Having an asexual relationship doesn’t necessarily mean sex doesn’t occur. Desire and libido are two different things. Or desire, libido, and intent to act on anything… Hmm… Aaanywho. Just a random note. I’m not calling you out on anything, just commenting.It’s kinda interesting that this was mentioned, mostly because I’ve had a discussion with a couple friends recently about how there isn’t really a word for that sort of relationship and how it’s a bit unfortunate. The lack of a word, that is.Yeah, really. I feel like even “non-sexual” wouldn’t really be right, either.
I guess it really depends on how you define the specific relationship, but a general term would be a good thing to have.
jeez.Mmmhmm. The closest I’ve seen are queerplatonic and the term zucchini, but I dunno, nothing quite clicks. Gah, feelings and relationships are just complicated the moment I have to explain them to someone else.
I really like queerplatonic, but I don’t feel like it describes this kind of relationship.
Like, the word platonic, to me, says non-romantic, non-intimate.
And I think intimacy is such a broad and personal thing that can include anything, and romance is often equated with sexuality and sensuality, but I see it more as affectionate feelings, that fluttery feeling with a person.
So I see being in a relationship with somebody as sharing some kind of intimacy, on the personal terms of that relationship, and so platonic, and therefore queerplatonic, don’t really apply to that.
That being said, I see queerplatonic as including some aspect of romance in a different interpersonal context.
Because I often say that I rarely feel entirely platonic towards my friends, but that’s because there are those tingly fluttery loving feelings towards them, in a queerplatonic way.
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