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SBSK is one of my models of masculinity. if you don’t know them, the guy Chris Ulmer does interviews with disabled kids. the videos are incredibly sweet, and he does this with this sweet patience that suggests no false or shallow depth of character https://t.co/9LpaMBRdyK
pre-emptively tagging @_StevenFan in this thread, because that gentle conviction about him also shifted something loose in me staying with you in your home and working with you @_StevenFan was honestly one of the most surprising moving experienced i had
it’s the strength and conviction to pursue your own goals. have thought about them. be pursuing them with an independence that makes clear you are not doing this because of any authority or tribe, but because you—that living thing known as you—decided it was important
who is there to give you a gold medal at the end of this race? there might be people. but you work alone. you get your intrinsic and external needs met. and from that place, from the erotic aliveness that still exists within you, you ask: what do i feel compelled to do next?
i see a kind of softness, humility, of having known pain i see a kind of fierceness, wildness, and ability to be more-than-default-society-can-handle-ness they seem of the world. when im around them, the messages their bodies are screaming into the world, i enjoy them