Peter got AIDS because he liked men. He liked men so much he went to bed with them, held them, spoke to them soothingly, caressing their face as they lay legs-entwined.
Browsing: Perspective
I’ve stretched my four-walled canvas out to infinity with memories and feelings — it’s become a museum of my life. When I inevitably have to peel the blu-tack off, I hope I can give all my trinkets —and by extension, myself— new meaning.
I miss the Parra Mardi Gras stairs. I miss their potential, and I hope to see them again.
Darwish, born in 1941, lived during the frictions of the Palestinian struggle through the Nakba, and subsequent displacement, war and political exile. Through it all, Darwish possessed a formidable talent to not only preserve but bellow the voice of Palestine through language.
This is a relationship that colonisers will never understand. This is why, for them, uprooting trees and paving roads over culturally significant land – this does not hurt or break their hearts like it does ours.
Thus, I was ten and emancipating myself from God, deciding that if my ‘test’ for this duniya was to love a man who did not deserve it, to show him mercy and forgiveness, then I would simply not sit the test. It was shortly after that I decided that I no longer loved my father.
If you take this bus two, three, four times, you will find that what was once an indiscriminate landscape becomes accustomed and recognisable. Trees tangled together, their bodies like frozen lightning.
So, to answer my own question of why I’m not a man yet here is what I’ve come to. I will never be a man if I continue to label myself as a work in progress person. If I continue at this rate two, then five, then fifteen years on T will begin to feel like a fruitless quest of self fulfilment. And it’s just not.
Political lesbianism has a history of exclusionary ideologies. I want to see if (and how) it can empower queer folk who don’t exist within traditional binaries.
I have never considered myself a disabled person, but then again my life before USyd was very different. I never told anyone.
