A Lesbian: Actually I Thought I Was A Trans Man For A While And It Turns Out Im Just Butch

a lesbian: actually I thought I was a trans man for a while and it turns out I’m just butch

a trans man: oh same! i thought I was a lesbian and it turns out im a trans man

nonbinary person: ive thought I was both and now i realized i’m neither! isn’t it cool how we can all talk about our shared experiences

people who come into my inbox: how dare you have anything in common. you’re invalidating literally every trans and lesbian person at the same time

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Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

randomly curious if im weird or if people are like me

casting spell of no-pain and no-fatigue on my mutuals. also giving you each a blanket with your favorite color and texture. ily guys. especially you autists