magnoliawoods:graybulla:NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY BUT QUEER AS IN - Michael Gray Bulla [image description:
magnoliawoods:graybulla:NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY BUT QUEER AS IN - Michael Gray Bulla [image description: a poem text that reads,“NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY BUT QUEER AS INbared teeth. As in celebration. As incarving the body out of the carcass. Not gayas in rainbow cop car for a policed pride parade,thin cis men washing the wallswhite – not gay as inNO FATS, NO FEMMES –but trans as in -cendence. Queeras in scribbling sharpieover the shadow of the she I was nevergoing to be. Fag as in piercingmy ears with my lover’s Mars earrings.Tranny as in tracing the chest’s twin lines,the ricochet of the real name, the lovingsomeone else even when you don’t loveyourself – Transfagas in T-dick. Shot & chaser. Building bodiesout of boats untethered to the banks of bendyourself until you break so I won’t be madeuncomfortable. Transfag as in fuck your“female erasure.” Transfag as in stomping yourboots to the beat of I am here, real, alive.Not gay as in gunshot, left to bleed on the concrete,save only yourself, sneering.But queertransfag as inechoing in every hallway. Scratched outof the history books. Pushed to the back of everyline. Making our own lines anyways. Writingour books. Building hallways.Queertransfag as in wrappingthe wound. Celebrating the scar.”/end id] -- source link