willa

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i'm using the words of humans to say what i want to know

Besides the slabs, the cave contained several white and red paintings. The subject of paintings ranged from simple geometric patterns to bees, which are still a nuisance to the unwary traveler.
text from a 1952 paper by Margaret Mahler: "GEORGE was just under seven when admitted to our Children's Service with fulminant symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. He had developed fairly normally to the age of three. when a sister was born. He began to have night terrors. At about the same time he began to have what his mother aptly described as "talking tantrums." He would pace the room. talking angrily to himself about something which seemed entirely irrelevant to his environment. He would mumble: "I'm a pussy cat. I'm a pussy cat. Elaine is big. I'm a pussy cat." Shortly after the baby came, he wanted to wear her clothes. and often wanted to wear his mother's. He insisted that he wanted to be a girl, preferred female animals and asked his mother perseverative questions as to why he should not be a girl. At about the same time he began to be afraid of the holes in a fence which he passed. or wherever he encountered any. His father frequently used this fear as a threat. often telling him he would put him in a hole. He tried to get reassurance from his father by asking frequently: "Do you love me?" George became a very good but asocial student. He often spoke of his sister. and again and again of his pet kitten in school. "I have a cat at home. It's a girl cat. I like my cat. I'm a girl cat."
To be loved is to be changed. Covered in saliva, tears, and dry spots,
meme reading 'who here a lesbian but in the dennis cooper way' - text overlaid on image of one man holding another man baby style
pre-2000s transfeminine memoirs & life writing * Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) * Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) * Jennie June, The Female Impersonators (1922) * Lili Elbe, Man into Woman (1933) * Tamara Reese, “Reborn”: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female (1955) * Hedy Jo Star, I Changed My Sex (1963) * Christine Jorgensen, A Personal Autobiography (1967) * Geoff Brown, I Want What I Want … To Be a Woman (1971, published as a novel) * Dianna, Behold, I am a Woman (1972) * Jan Morris, conundrum (1974) * Being Different: The Autobiography of Jane Fry (1974) * Canary Conn, Canary: The Story of a Transsexual (1974) * Nancy Hunt, Mirror Image: The Odyssey of a Male-to-Female Transsexual (1978) * Renee Richards, second serve (1981) * Tula, I am a Woman (1982) * Angela Douglas, Triple Jeopardy (1983) * Ashley April (w Duncan Fallowell) April Ashley's Odyssey (1983) * Inge Stephens, Alain, transsexuelle (1983, in french) * Stephanie Castle, Feelings: a transsexual's explanation of a baffling condition (1992) * Angela Douglas, Hollywoods Obsession (1992) * Tula, My Story (1992) * Julia Grant, Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman (1994) * Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw (1995) * Jayne County, Man Enough to Be a Woman (1995) * Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual - Beth Elliot and Geri Nettic (1996) * Bambi Lake, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake (1996) * Claudine Griggs, Passage through Trinidad: journal of a surgical sex change (1996) * Jennifer Spry, Orlando's sleep: an autobiography of gender (1997) * Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir (1999)
footnote from a robert stoller text: "In our research team, we practically consider the diagnosis of transsexualism made, before ever having seen the patient, when 'she' fails to appear at the appointed time for the first visit."
One of the keys to enjoying eating beeswax is to remember one word — moderation.
Richard Burton was a handsome man. To view pictures of him click here.
a page from Autobiography of an Androgyne with the following sentence underlined: "Inability to whistle is a general characteristic of passive inverts."
cover of the zine, Sentenced Him to Be a Lady, by c.c. published by Empathy Press
a photograph of a page from Michael Eignen's book, The Sensitive Self. "In Cogitations, Bion writes of being murdered, then being all right. He likens a psychotic seeing blood mounting up on his sleeve to being murdered in reverse. The patient dreads annihilation as his blood is restored. It is an annihilation he must risk if he is to come alive, if the blood of meaning and feeling is to flow in his psychic veins: "At the point when his blood will be fully restored to his circulatory system he will experience being murdered. And then he will be all right.? The closer to life, the closer to murder as a rite of passage. Murder as gateway on the way toward aliveness, as psychic circulation increases, contrasts with images of bleeding to death. Bion writes about loss of blood as an image of loss of feeling or splattering of common sense. Hemorrhage expresses injury to thinking and feeling processes."