I should be writing a paper instead of a blog post right now, but so be it. Something crazy happened on Tuesday evening. I was riding the subway home with a friend from class and there was this paranoid girl (a teenager) yelling at people for looking at her. No one was looking at her…of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘compassion’
A Subway Story
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anger, compassion, violence on December 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Feeling “Other”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged butch, compassion, femme, homophobia, Identity, other, passing, Queer, racism on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As a queer girl living in NYC, I’m a bit out of place in certain situations, but I usually feel relatively at home. When I’m alone, like it or not (and that’s a not for me), I pass as straight and so I’m viewed as “the norm”. But when I’m with a butch lover or friend, I’m suddenly aware of [...]
