You Don't Have Sex With Fat Girls? Get Well Soon I Guess.

i think if people are to become actually accepting of disability they need to radically rework what they consider to be tenants of a fulfilling life. independence and self sufficiency can be nice but they're not required for a fulfilling life. neither is having a partner and children, having a job, or getting out of bed every single day. sure they can be enriching but so can other things. we need to stop considering the lives that disabled people live to be inherently subpar. inability and struggle is also a part of life, it doesn't devalue it. and acknowledging the difficulties of disabled people doesn't make their lives inherently unfulfilled either. we're here living life too.

"The Agressives" series by Jason Florio, 2000.

Knight and Kiss Divine - O Beloved, it is my dearest wish to be known only by you. To Partake in your laughter, to feel the leather of your scabbard, and become your flesh. To tread through the field where flowers were left kneeling under your gait, for mine road I hope to be illuminated by your radiance.

It's common for transphobes to see us as our gender only when it can be used against us. The trans man is a man only when being intimate with him would make you gay or when his masculinity and the idea of him being a man disgusts you, but never in a context where it would be affirming to him. In the mind of a transphobe, he can be both a disgusting predatory gay man trying to turn a straight man gay and a woman who will never ever be a real man. He can be a deranged female fetishist preying on gay men and also a naive girl who just wants to escape misogyny. He can be a butch lesbian groomed into transitioning by homophobes who want to turn her straight and gender-conforming and also an unsafe man who deserves no protection and must be kept out of women's spaces. Transphobes can hold multiple of these pairs of beliefs at the same time about the exact same person because they're bigots and that's how bigotry works. The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

Goodbye Mr. Lynch I’ll see you in my dream

Jøshua Zerø photographed by Nicole Ngai

New York. Photographs by Yale Joel (1954) via the LIFE Photo Collection.

Office Building of Centraal Beheer (1970-72) in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, by Herman Hertzberger. Photo by Klaus Kinold.

ICC Berlin. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

EMBODIMENT: A PORTRAIT OF QUEER LIFE IN AMERICA

Ducky and her friends, 2008 | Kate and Laurel, 2007 | Princeton and Lena, 2009 | Ronnie and Jo, 2005 | Simon and West, 9AM | Damian and Daughters, 2009 | Cat and Brittany, 2009 | Jentleman of Distinction, 2009 | Mandy, 2005 | David and Isaac, 2007