A white-faced Ibis, showing colorful purple, crimson, teal, and gold feathers. Photo at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah by Leslie Scopes Anderson.
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Transcript: CaffeineeCold
"nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out.
"then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride
"and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you.
""pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are.
""you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it." source
"nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out.
"then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride
"and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you.
""pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are.
""you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it." source
The letter @rhamezcua wrote and that I have co-signed along with nearly 800 other Mater Dei Alumni has been formally submitted to the leadership of
We are requesting response by Thursday, June 19 (Juneteenth).
Should we not receive a response, we have strategized next steps. We will be sending updates via email to those who signed and submitted their email via the form.
Please continue to s hare this with alumni of MDHS, as well as families who currently have children at this school, and other parochial schools in the Orange County area.
**If you would like to receive email updates as well, please submit your email in the form, even if you are not an alumni. Indicate in the signature you are not an alumni. Thank you!!**
❤️🔥, Leslie Priscilla
#MDHS #MaterDeiHighSchool #MaterDei #SantaAna source
We are requesting response by Thursday, June 19 (Juneteenth).
Should we not receive a response, we have strategized next steps. We will be sending updates via email to those who signed and submitted their email via the form.
Please continue to s hare this with alumni of MDHS, as well as families who currently have children at this school, and other parochial schools in the Orange County area.
**If you would like to receive email updates as well, please submit your email in the form, even if you are not an alumni. Indicate in the signature you are not an alumni. Thank you!!**
❤️🔥, Leslie Priscilla
#MDHS #MaterDeiHighSchool #MaterDei #SantaAna source
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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times. source
i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times. source