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April 17, 2020
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Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Honor the Scorned

In "Honor, the Scorned," Xelestial's soul is in constant turmoil with the encounters of love she has in her life, as well as her insistence and demand to be seen under her terms. We enter a transient space of time and magic in this performance ritual with Xelestiál's body, heart, and soul.

Honor the Scorned
June 26, 2019
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Straight, Cis-Passing Privilege & Rainbow ...

Because we encompass gender defiant ideologies and reject the mainstream, we who visibly navigate queerness, who practice transfeminism, miss out on the queer capitalist extravaganza that everyone else benefits from.

January 16, 2019
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Finding Womxnhood

A video featuring Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz. “My perception as a self identified femme brings forth waves of validation to the divine I know myself to be.”

June 16, 2018
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Disability Tales: PRIDE

Wanting to take space as a fat brown genderqueer femme is all fun and games until the folks who domineer the space take notice.

February 22, 2018
resistance, survival, featured
Robbie Ahmed
Self-Help Books Fail to Teach Us Self-Love

As a queer and trans person of color who struggled for years to understand what healing meant, I've learned a few things on my self-healing journey that countless self-help books failed to tell me.

Marcy Angeles
December 28, 2018
resistance

End of Year Affirmations

Marcy Angeles
December 28, 2018
resistance

I stopped being at the mercy of other healers when I began to heal myself.

Tagged: poetry, two-spirit, healing, feature

Vale
December 24, 2018
poetry

I Can Cook for You: A Poem

Vale
December 24, 2018
poetry

There are things I want to do all the time, like … I have ambitions, I do, really … want to be there for people, but…

Tagged: family, creativity

Johndalyn Armstrong
December 23, 2018
survival

Go Where You are Honored during the Holidays

Johndalyn Armstrong
December 23, 2018
survival

Even if there is tension among your bio family, you are still loved and honored for who you are in the other spaces you create for yourself. No one can take that from you.

Tagged: family, community, self-care, self-love, feature

Bonita P.
December 21, 2018
resistance

Every Single Christmas: I Am My Own Family

Bonita P.
December 21, 2018
resistance

Christmas started bullying me; during sleepless nights it showed a carousel of pictures of my childhood: the primary love I thought I had but deeply marked me, carers who gave me unhealthy bonding, yet carers who I deeply miss.

Tagged: family, holidays, bonita

Dominic Bradley
December 10, 2018
poetry

"Culture was my armor, and creation was my weapon": A Bop Poem

Dominic Bradley
December 10, 2018
poetry

Still no matter how much I try to resist it / I wax nostalgic for a person who never existed

Tagged: creativity, family, black queer

O. T. Taylor
November 22, 2018
resistance

Making Love After War: Queerness in the Aftermath of Abuse

O. T. Taylor
November 22, 2018
resistance

Often, I wonder if I love women because I’m tired of being hurt by men. In effect, I have the same question many queer survivors have: am I queer because I was abused?

Tagged: abuse, healing

Eskandar Rohani-Pangilinan
November 8, 2018
survival

Oral Hygiene

Eskandar Rohani-Pangilinan
November 8, 2018
survival

I’m not doing it on purpose, I promise. But when I’m in the bathroom alone I look at myself in the mirror and I go to a dark place within my own body, somewhere that I haven’t yet exorcised and burnt incense in.

Tagged: abuse, healing

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Our denial of our needs (and to be clear, needs, not wants) does not create a more just world. Food, shelter, safety and caring relationships are necessary to all.

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Nefertari Sloan

Past experiences of broken confidence held me back, and I had even less confidence that I would be able to find a queer competent, POC identified behavioral health professional with sexual assault experience who was worth investing time, money, and trust in.

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My therapist tells me that everything said in this room will remain in between the two of us. He asks me why I came in today, and I wonder if I can tell him so much.

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For a long time I didn't call it anything, because I didn't think about.

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Ask them what they can offer you besides coping skills, and remember that you’re worth it.

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REST FEST NYC is next weekend!

Join us in #ProspectPark on Sunday 7/30 as we reclaim the right of QTBIPOC community to rest in public. We will have several places to lounge, as well as guided group activities.

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Low-energy activities:
Savasana Saturdays: Yoga Practice is a time to be with gentle movement and deeper restfulness in an asana sequence.

Classes are led by Floria Fernandes (@floor.it.fernandes).

We practice together at 10 am est / 7:30 pm ist, every 3rd Saturday each
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The Burnt Out Activist Club 
Wednesday 7/5 
8am PST/MST, 11am EST.

Led by dom chatterjee (they/he), the founder of @qtpocmentalhealth ,Rest for Resistance empowers community through knowledge and compassion, with the ul
Rest Fest is wrapping up our virtual programming this evening with two workshops, on creative connection and decolonization, followed by a DJ set by @western_obsidian.

Yet, the spirit of Rest Fest will continue throughout July as we look forward to
Sadies “Sun” Yanes is leading an Herbs for Rest Workshop in honor of REST FEST. 

What does Rest mean to Sun?

“Rest allows us to drop on our bodies; clear our minds from the congestion of a colonized state; and receive love, t
✨REST FEST is a testimony to creativity as healing justice ✨!

TODAY Saturday 7/1, Rest for Resistance invites QTIBIPOC to share their creativity with the community! 

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Lucy-Lucas is leading an ASD Perspective Workshop in honor of REST FEST, happening today!

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Peace”

 - Lucy-Lucas Valentine 

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✨REST FEST is a testimony to rest as a form of strength ✨!

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5 Ways to Stay Alive in a World That Wants You Dead
Lance Hicks

Thoughts of suicide come when we run out of options. The more we’re oppressed, the less power we have, which means thoughts of ending our lives might come up a lot. Here are resources and strategies to help you keep fighting for your life without compromising your agency.

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You're Probably Smarter Than Your Therapist: How to Get What You Came for Anyways
Lance Hicks

Ask them what they can offer you besides coping skills, and remember that you’re worth it.

Lance Hicks

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