I know that this is notlike choosing a shirt in a catalogueor checking pointson a list of variables And yet,if you exist,if I ever meet you,I'd love You to be sensual and humourousspiritual and intelligentinvolved and activeloving my spicy foodand breathing fresh mountain airloving me for who I amwith my perks andoccasional crazinessmy transnessand my … Just daydreaming weiterlesen
Autor: Ari Yasmin Lee
Bullet
I would catch a bullet for youright into my back if I had to So when I exhaleI can look into your face Just once more to feelthe warmth of You I would catch a bullet for youright into my back So when I exhaleI can look into your face
Multitudes
I contain multitudes I contain multitudesfrom the heart of Europeto North Africato the seashoresof the carribbean I descend from Kings and QueensI descend from WarriorsI live through my ancestorsand my ancestors live through metheir pain and their strengthflows through my veins I contain multitudesand follow themon the path of beauty And I get closer to … Multitudes weiterlesen
ASD
Autistic Spectrum Disordera disorder to youwho gave it this nameis not a disorder to me What ifthe neurotypical way of functioningis actuallydisorder to me? I just function differentlyI experience the world in another wayrich and colorfulinterlinked and intense Emotions so intensewhere sound becomes taste,and taste becomes colorso intense, it becomes difficult to convey Where the … ASD weiterlesen
Stolen roots
The fight within myselfwrestling with my pastfinding a path in the presentthat leads to the good future Raised away from my peoplesin a place that did not want meand that I did not wantleaving me without languagewithout culturewithout bonds Adrift between worldsI want to grow roots into my rootsI need to grow roots into my … Stolen roots weiterlesen
We are sacred
If you say that God did not create intersexlet me sayyour godis not mine If you say that Satan made intersexlet me say thatI don't believein your mighty Satan either If you say thatbeing trans is a disease to cureand that your God will take careof my problemlet me say that I'm perfectly fine If … We are sacred weiterlesen
Rise, Haiti, rise.
You shookat seven point two you shookyou trembled and rocked and torecollapsing, damaging, roaring and killingYou shook with untamed powerrumbling from deep belowwith unbridled violence Devastated streetstorn apart homesstreets filled with screaming and clouds of dustand sounds of moving debriswhilst mothers, fathers, children and cousinscall out in search for their loved onesblinded by dustwith bloodied … Rise, Haiti, rise. weiterlesen
Trans man, trans man…
I have a strong sense of self, of who I am - but I often lack the vocabulary to convey it to others who might ask. To make it easier, I simply say that I am a trans man. Yet I feel that this is not completely correct. Yes, I am ftm trans, my pronouns … Trans man, trans man… weiterlesen
Uprooted
Like an uprooted treewhose roots point towards the skyburnt and scorched by the sun,barely alivetouching the earth and touching the sky,yet not at home in eithernot knowing how to breathe I grew up between the worldsin one that was not my own,and not knowing how my own waswandering as a strangerwhereever I would gotruly at … Uprooted weiterlesen
To be Trans
to be transis to love myselfis to embrace myself whollyfully and completely- without an ounce of shame to be transis to know myselfis to know who I amnot ascribing to outside pressuresand views to be transis to be regarded criticallymisgenderedmockedbe called namesgetting gropedrisking getting beaten or killed- and getting up again to be transis to … To be Trans weiterlesen