Category: Non classé

The Dyke’s Complaint

epicene-writing:

Here
comes the Dyke, from night to night,

A neon light,

A smoke.

*

Here
comes the Dyke, and her footsteps

Are
glued with spit,

Are
marked with teeth;

*

She
seeps from darker walls,

Standing
still, or walks

Or
disappears into the depths

Of
a silent subway.

*

Her
face? you ask

Her
clothes?

Thicker
than silk,

Smoother
than wool

That’s
all you need to know.

*

Here
comes the Dyke,

Alone,
and so

That
her shadow’s thinking

Of leaving for good

*

And
in the Dyke’s shadow

Raise,
and fall

A
sobbing girl

Huddled
on the floor

Under
a tapestry –

*

The
moon’s absent,

No
lamp is lit at the window

And
trains are passing by:

*

Here
goes the Dyke, who knows

That
her shadow won’t leave for now.

bioethicists:

diet culture is so rooted in the idea that our bodies are machines that our minds have to outwit. it pushes for the idea that hunger is something you have to “beat”, that cravings are an annoyance to ignore or outwit, that the way our bodies want to look and want to be is something to fight, that it needs to be helped to do things it was built to do.

here is the liberating truth- your body is so smart and it is trying to help you. it works so hard to keep you alive- sometimes it fails at what it’s trying to do, sometimes it does it in unconvential ways, but it is trying to keep you alive! hunger is our body saying “we need food”- it’s not something to ignore or supress. cravings are our body saying “we need a specific type of food”- they aren’t something to trick or prevent. natural weight and weight distribution are our body saying “this is the shape in which we work best”- they aren’t something to control or reduce. denying this is what hurts us most- even though diet culture tries to tell us that listening to our bodies and treating them with kindness and forgiveness is wrong.

it was never about him

starryuniverse:

This is how it goes

You sit on a couch surrounded by people

You’ve been preparing a performance

For months with them

Sat in circles with eyes closed,

Writing about intentions,

Talking about self care,

Finding a way to talk about things close to our heart

In front of a crowd,

A way to be vulnerable

And it makes you feel naked

Like they can see into a corner of your life that’s been stuffed inside you

A time far away, back in high school

But still something that’s being worked out in your mind

And you figure out while you’re doing it

It was never about him

And you know

It’s true when you talk about how beautiful you thought the girl was,

How you would compare yourself

Just to find what was wrong with you

When really you were still hiding it deep down

And when you perform a part of you feels like you’re lying

Because the way you say it,

Maybe it seems like you really did have a crush on him

Even if you say it was a “so-called crush”

But it’s too much to change it and you’re there

And when you were going through it, it was real,

You were full of emotion

Pent up or repressed

Coming out in weird ways

But that was being a teenager in high school.

So you’re sitting on the couch,

And a game starts,
Everyone talking about a boy they’d ask on a date

And you can see by the way they talk

That it means something,

But when it comes to you,

You realize you have nothing to say

About the one boy you were thinking of mentioning

Except maybe he has a cute smile

But does it really mean enough to talk about?

You say “no, I can’t think of anyone.”

But someone else mentions him

And you feel a flood of relief as you say “me too”,

hinging onto normalcy.

casting call for a trans actor!

garenabelunokan:

I’m looking for an actress for a play I’m directing in London – I’m looking to cast a black trans woman in her early to mid twenties who can do an NY/American accent. We are casting for the role of Sylvi, a hopeful, somewhat naïve woman with very big dreams. (it’s paid – profit share)

If you fit this description and are interested, please email a headshot and/or showreel and CV to garen.abel.unokan@gmail.com for more info. if you don’t, please show this to someone who does!