Friday, 8 November 2024

When we look at this history, what we see is a world that is never content just to let intersex people be. Intersex bodies have always been made to stand for more than they are: for God’s judgement, for the supernatural or monstrous, for threats to the patriarchal order. People whose intersex traits are obvious have rarely been able to fly under the radar. While trans history is often hidden […], intersex history is often violently laid bare before an invasive medical, religious or literary gaze.

Cheshire

The feminine urge to feel connected to your core being, your core values, your core needs, and core desires.

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

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Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.

Männer hatten Waffen und Schwerter, Rüstungen und ganze Heere hinter sich. Frauen besaßen nicht einmal Taschen an ihren Kleidern. Frauen hatten immer nur in ihre Intuition besessen.

"Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness. There is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against 'losing control' of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.

Fjords

Calming