This is the story of Lupe, and her quest for the girl in the mirror.

12th December 2011

Post reblogged from Nothing But Surrender with 221 notes

Oh my GAWD.

nothingbutsurrender:

pompadoursandpincurls:

Ultimate eyeroll when people say shit like, “Why do we even have to label ourselves? We’re all equal and human blah blah blah.”

SHUT UP. SHUT UP FOREVER.

Pretending we have no differences erases the reality of our experiences and our oppression.

NOT defining ourselves means that someone else is doing it for us.

No fucking thank you.

Most often hear this said by people who are the cultural default in whatever category they’re talking about for the culture they live in.

It’s easy to talk about not needing labels when everyone assumed that your label is ‘normal’.

Bugs me.

:(

I find myself sick of labels. Too often they’re ones that other people have placed on you, and you have to struggle so hard to replace them with your own.

Sometimes I wish it would stop. Sometimes I wish I could just be me, and let everyone else be them, and leave me out of it. The constant struggle to exert my sense of self against the pressure of labels is painful and makes me want to shrink away from the world.

Tagged: labels

Source: pompadoursandpincurls

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