u spend years and years trying to craft theory to explain how mestizaje is inextricably linked to antiblack racism just for some boomer latino to come out and say it directly >>>>
Would you believe that the trend has been popular for centuries? Here in the painting “Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies” from 1650 we can see beauty patches that at the time were used to conceal scars from smallpox/syphillis and were shaped as stars, moons or even beauty moles
“being queer saved my life. often we see queerness as deprivation. but when i look at my life, i saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. i had to make alternative routes; it made me curious, it made me ask, ‘is this enough for me?’
- ocean vuong
I’m not here to police anybody’s writing but unfortunately I spent 4 years getting a degree that Drilled into my head that you should almost always use “said” unless how they say it is of Utmost Importance and I discovered I genuinely do like it way times better doing it that way
it’s okay. i revisit what i once read at 18 now at 26 and finally understand the parts that used to slip past me. the interesting part of rereading is realizing the words never changed. only you did, in ways almost unrecognizable to your former self
when i get anxious for no reason i know it’s because my parallel in another dimension is engaging in a skirmish of some sort. i channel my energy in these moments to give him the fortitude to be victorious