I left the church years ago and started deconstructing.
Doing your own thinking is powerful. Pulling out the true teaching about Jesus as opposed to the church’s unaccepting teachings.
My yoga teacher when I was in Tennessee was a very conservative Christian. After she posted some selected verses from the Bible, I invited her out to dinner. I explained that those were the exact kinds of things that trans people see that says “you aren’t good enough for God to love”—and many of them commit suicide.
Her eyes open wide as she realized what she’d done.
She’s probably still in her conservative Christianity in TN, but I was glad she at least took in some new information.
Miranda, this poem is so heartbreakingly beautiful, the beautiful part being how you arranged the ugliness of others into art that makes us feel and think. Poems that k*ll fascists seem like a high ask for a poem, but I believe yours possess that power. I’m going to share it with my mother.
This is stunning. Clean, pure beauty. Wow.
I left the church years ago and started deconstructing.
Doing your own thinking is powerful. Pulling out the true teaching about Jesus as opposed to the church’s unaccepting teachings.
My yoga teacher when I was in Tennessee was a very conservative Christian. After she posted some selected verses from the Bible, I invited her out to dinner. I explained that those were the exact kinds of things that trans people see that says “you aren’t good enough for God to love”—and many of them commit suicide.
Her eyes open wide as she realized what she’d done.
She’s probably still in her conservative Christianity in TN, but I was glad she at least took in some new information.
Oh, God, Miranda. My heart.
Miranda, this is so damn powerful. It is beautiful and, as cooper said below, also heartbreaking. I felt every bit of it. ❤️
Miranda, this poem is so heartbreakingly beautiful, the beautiful part being how you arranged the ugliness of others into art that makes us feel and think. Poems that k*ll fascists seem like a high ask for a poem, but I believe yours possess that power. I’m going to share it with my mother.