Obscure Juice

Bootblack and ½ @mollyhouseproj

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

This post is still making its rounds a year later. Wild. I tried to write a follow up, but don't have much to say, so I talked to some dope fat folks I know about sex, kink, and gender instead: https://t.co/8bzKcoO9XN

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

I have sex with fat people, and it's not revolutionary: a thread.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

It's that time of year where my thread on sex with fat folks is going around. Which is cool! But then folks follow me, and I don't be on Twitter like that anymore. Follow me on IG instead @shaanlashun :)

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

@graceyswer Just talked about this with someone recently. I've taken to calling them fetish workers, bc for some sex is about a particular sort of connection and isn't necessarily attached to a specific activity.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

@EducatorAndy @bimbotheory, sometimes/kinda?

[Texas Isaiah @TexasIsaiah]

I think I make a good friend, sibling, and brother, and I hate being denied of offering that space simply because of gender essentialist bullshit. I don't particularly appreciate experiencing it with other trans people because that is who I intentionally want to love.

[Texas Isaiah @TexasIsaiah]

There can be this awkward resistance towards us, and I think I get it, but when I don’t see the same hesitancy being extended to cis masc folks, it makes me want to ask — do you not think it is essential to be in community with us?

[Texas Isaiah @TexasIsaiah]

I wish people would extend friendship to trans masculine people like they do with cis men. Sometimes, I feel like I’m on the outskirts with folks unless they want to date me, and that can be fine. But, friendship matters too.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

Doing better at shouting myself out bc I learned a long time ago that no one else will. (Comes with the territory when your work isn't a performance.)

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

I'm proud of my work. Even if no one knows what all I have a hand in, even if no one appreciates my energy until they need it, even if sometimes it doesn't go according to plan. I'm really proud of the work I do in my communities and the impact I've made on people.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

@itsjacksonbbz I peeped that recently and it's so weird bc 10 years ago, they had at least three different shades of brown. None were particularly realistic, but they were there.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

I'm in a group for transmasc* folks in Leather. Someone asked if anyone else struggles in all-male spaces. The responses both make me feel less alone, and make me feel very sad. Sigh.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

I'm sure one of you "good vibes only" sorts have a metaphor about how growth requires people getting cut off.

No. I am sad. Let me be sad and mourn the death of the loss of things I cared about bc of something that'll probably happen again.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

Sometimes I wonder where I'd be in life if my brain didn't require a meltdown every few years (depression).

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

Alas, that's life, I suppose. We live, we learn, we grow.

It would just be cool to grow without getting branches chopped off every so often.

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

Shout out to everyone who constantly feels alone because their depression won't let them feel connected to anyone or anything :)

[Obscure Juice @shaanlashun]

@blaqueerflow Where all you stoppin?