The Boyprincess Diaries

I don’t take hormones and I haven’t had surgery. I’m not less Trans than anyone else. There aren’t levels you have to reach. This isn’t Super Mario Brothers…there isn’t a secret pathway through a green pipe and all of the sudden you are on a higher level of Trans.

- Tristan Skye (via genderbendingriotqueer)

A lot of people don’t heal [from trauma], and it manifests in a lot of different ways throughout their lives. There’s a study they did with Vietnam vets who’d had—clearly—a lot of trauma during the war. Twenty years later, they measured their levels of pain before and after they showed them intense footage from Vietnam. Pretty much across the board, after they saw this really intense, violent footage from the war, their levels of pain went down. Because when trauma doesn’t get to work itself through your system, your system idles at a heightened state, and so getting more really intense input calms your system down….A lot of folks who’ve survived trauma end up being really calm in crisis and freaking out in everyday life.

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Meredith Broome (via kathrynincalgary)

Everything about this is correct. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

(via notime4yourshit)