Young Writers Society

Wanna play?

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!

happy birthday!

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That is all.

It appears we are joining sides again on the debate forum.

I am suddenly envious of you getting to know Kit in person. I haven't had a chance to talk to her in forever, but she is such a great person.

“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.”

- Teju Cole

oh my god the sd&d straighties just won't quit

I've been backreading the Debate forum, and man. You and Rubric have some serious hatemance going on. It is glorious.

Yo, Karz. I noticed the little gender icon beneath your name has changed since I last saw it so very long ago, so I figured I'd ask if you wanted your pronouns changed accordingly, or if you have a preferred set?

So, I bought a saxophone today.

(Well, half a saxophone. I split it with my future housemate.)

http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditio ... y-disorder

There is nothing wrong with being transgender, but you must understand that it is a chemical imbalence and a disorder. I don't believe it is a mental illness, as it is a strong word, but it is a genetic disorder.

I do not believe in labels, like you (I have a mental illness, but I am NOT my illness), because we are all people with different genetic makeups. You seem to be veeeerrrry defensive about this subject. What do you have to defend? Just like bipolar disorder is normal, so is this? We are all human beings with out own set of genetics and hopefully one day we will get rid of labels, but, just like I own the fact that bipolar is a mental illness, it should be excepted that transgender is one too.

For instance, I am not bipolar. I am a human being who has the disorder. We're all human

Hi.

The fierce protectiveness you have for LGBTQ people makes me so so happy. I love and admire that about you.

Mr. K: poetry aficionado, hurter of straighty feelings.