US Trailer for Laurence Anyways, directed by Xavier Dolan, 2012.
I watched this extraordinary film last summer in Paris, and now it’s finally being shown in the US. It will tear you apart, and you will dance, and you will cry and you will laugh. Go.
Such a amazing film!
shaking after watching this video.
incredible.
What else can be said…
Kaitlyn Smith: I am a Queen
~B. Yung
I am a queen
forced to clash with
half of my class with
class and more attitude
than a little bit,
but I’m built like that
conquering the box that
holds me down
cause the game is real like that,
but I’m pushing
never moving forth
before the fort is protected
I’m the most important
and…
powerful
“Hir” Poem about transgendered youth. (by pandaman96)
Melissa sits in the back of the classroom afraid to speak up,
She pulls akwardly at her extra loose khaki cargo pants,
She doesn’t want the boys to notice her.
James finds himself at the back of a classroom,
His baseball cap casts a shadow on his pimple stained forehead,
A wide shirt hangs from his broad shoulders,
But no one ever noticed him.
Melissa
The teacher asks,
And she says nothing because she is not here,
And Melissa has never been here,
Because Melissa is just some abstract jumble of syllables that doesn’t fit her position,
She is not what she seems,
She doesn’t want to have to explain to her mother for the 232nd time why she doesn’t want to wear a dress to prom,
Doesn’t paint her face it’s cause her whole body is painted on.
Melissa, Melissa
James doesn’t want to have to explain where he came from,
Cause with the exception of Melissa he has been deemed an abstract reality by everyone,
All he wishes for is to get to wear a tuxedo to prom.
And Melissa has been tucking in breasts that will be growing for three years now,
Been using duct tape to press them down and mould them more into pecs,
She just wishes that people would understand that at birth her genitals didn’t know which way to grow,
Mad at God who couldnt relay a message directly to her hormones that they should produce more testosterone,
The only person who understands her is James,
And they have been playmates since the age of four,
Around the time girls notice boys and boys notice girls,
See James’ family wanted daughters instead of sons,
And Melissa was always like that male beetle that everyone called a ladybug,
Melissa, Melissa where is she?
Sometimes she wishes she could rip the skin of her back,
Every moment of everyday feels trapped in the flesh of a stranger,
Melissa,
As she stands to her feet wanting to say
“I’m here, I’ve been here since I was born, so quit asking me if I’m a him or a her, Cause when you combine the two pronouns you get H.I.R,
Hir,
And God combined the two genders and put me in this body transgendered,
I’m here so quit talking about me like I’m not here.”
James falls back into Melissa’s skin,
And the two comfort each other in a syncapated heartbeats,
Waiting for the day when Melissa can finally scrub off this made up genetic make up,
When the teacher asks for James and he can say “I’m here.”
AMANDAPALMER.TUMBLR.COM: real feminists don't gaze at males.
i won’t link to the full review of our show the other night, or even name the publication (if you care, google), because i don’t want to give the writer the satsifaction of the hits. but can i talk for a moment about how incredibly much this pisses me off? thanks, i will. the review begins:
…
“ And now, an ending. Where there was once one, there are now two. Or were there always two? What is a reflection? A chance to see two? When there are chances for reflections, there can always be two or more. Only when we are everywhere will there be just one.
The Log Lady, Twin Peaks (via zoetica)
Front Toward Enemy: "Our Hearts Our Broken Today"
This is what’s in my head. If you don’t want to know, don’t read it. You have been warned.
I am facing tragedy for the second time this week. Facing tragedy as a human and as an American.
I nearly lost a colleague, a man whose work I admire, at the Clackamas Town Center shooting this past…
ZOETICA EBB: 7 Ways To Spike Your Hot Chocolate
- Orange Pisco Hot Chocolate brings orange liqueur and pisco together. It comes off with the scent of a jaffa cake and the flavor of a foil-wrapped chocolate orange—but better. Orange zest rubbed on the rim adds some fresh citrus aroma and candied orange peel makes for a perfect edible garnish.
Exactly what I needed!
