delisubthefemmecub:

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delisubthefemmecub:

For me, femme is about healing

it is about the rituals of adornment that I use to calm my anxiety, and quell my tears after days where transphobia slips under my skin like stubborn splinters

it is about reaching across time, bridging the distance between the man I am and the girl I was.

it is about finding that girl in the recesses of my heart, holding him in my arms, and saying “it will be okay, we made it out alive.”

it is about finding a way to be a boy that doesn’t hurt.

it is about nurturing all the femme parts of myself that I suffocated, just so the boy part of myself might be visible to other people.

For me, femme is about resistance

it is about refusing to believe that there is a right way to be a man

it is about glitter armor and gestural fierceness coating my spirit so that I might just be strong enough to survive

it is about reclaiming and flaunting all of the parts of my femininity that have been used to say that the sexual assaults were my fault

For me, femme is about healing, resistance, survival. 

Somedays, femme is all I have.

loved this, lost it, and finally refound it today on someone else’s tumblr

Reblogged for vivelesfemmes

THIS. THIS. THIS.
“it is about nurturing all the femme parts of myself that I suffocated, just so the boy part of myself might be visible to other people.”
Yeah, I’m genderqueer…and I don’t leave home without makeup on. And I fucking love tutus and occasionally wear push-up bras. Not a fuck is being given.

(via fuckyeahqueerfemme)

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    reblogging because although i am not trans*, this is both beautiful and more people should read it. just because.

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