Erin Schick - Identity: A Love Story

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8 жыл бұрын

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Erin Schick, performing at WoWPS 2016 in Brooklyn, NY.
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@xnlx9748 8 жыл бұрын

"I know I'm most aware of myself as broken, when someone else is holding me together"

@KirstenKingMe 7 жыл бұрын

That's what I was going to say! You stole me thunder lol

@m.morevna8901 7 жыл бұрын

"Call my shame betrayal of a dead woman and me traitor to the gender I leave behind. No one asks if I'm positive I want to be having it, if I'm positive mopping the kitchen floor is a better use of my time." Someone put my feelings into better and more powerful words. Amen to this entire poem, what a work of ace art.

@laurenmitchell3593 7 жыл бұрын

"Refusing to blame my body for things it does not do." --- Love this line. THIS is the kind of culture-changing poetry we need!!

@wildgr33n 7 жыл бұрын

Lauren Mitchell i struggled with that until i found the ace community at 23..

@totalweirdo8538 7 жыл бұрын

FUCK YEAH! I've experienced so much hate from 'sex positive' groups/people/whatever, but the thing about sex positivity is about having as much OR AS LITTLE sex as you want.

@Kiwimango95 8 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful poem! This is one of the few asexual poems I've ever heard and I appreciate it so much, thank you. My identity is enough. Amazing

@krystina55478 8 жыл бұрын

do you have links to any others? this is the first one i've seen!

@Kiwimango95 8 жыл бұрын

I wish there were more but unfortunately I've only seen a few and you can find them all if you search asexual poem! I'm so thankful for representation like this, I wish there was more of it!!

@mickeciaa2335 7 жыл бұрын

💕

@LoraK31 7 жыл бұрын

Endless chills.

@stah841 7 жыл бұрын

I know I like to be alone, a lot. I know I am most aware of my self as broken when someone else is holding me together.

@EveVL 8 жыл бұрын

I was so not ready for this!! This is seriously one of the best poems I've ever heard!!!

@lo373 7 жыл бұрын

i love so much that this is categorized in "Love Poems" in Button's yt page

@jessicaclones4574 7 жыл бұрын

i started sobbing probably 30 seconds in. this is so important. so much of it resonates with me. i needed to hear this.

@KirstenKingMe 7 жыл бұрын

I couldn't call myself queer unless I felt the way everyone said I should. I love this and therefore you💜

@miriamkaruga 7 жыл бұрын

I have yet to hear something so beautiful and relatable!

@giannareeve2529 8 жыл бұрын

love the tone and ace visibility

@BlazeTheFierce 7 жыл бұрын

I definitely needed this in my life. It's beautiful and really strikes the core of what it feels like to be asexual. There are so few poems on the topic so it really is such a gem!

@abbyplace2560 7 жыл бұрын

"Positive that there is a part of me not defined by violence, or confusion or shame" damn

@YINYANGWINDS 7 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!!!! I identify as Asexual an people don't understand and you just put my whole life into beautiful words THANK YOU

@sorereasons 7 жыл бұрын

I loved the words "corrective rape" hadn't heard it before. Amazing choice of words.

@ang3licfire843 2 жыл бұрын

Same, I thought I made that up in my head .♥️💞

@nooneknows2686 5 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful it makes me hopeful and scared at the same time thank you.

@jamesheath2394 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@nathaliearntsen2080 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@markwylie8357 7 жыл бұрын

ace pride!

@HIRA3TH 8 жыл бұрын

gorgeous

@lucatruex7303 7 жыл бұрын

this is so beautiful

@lscocloud 7 жыл бұрын

this needs more views and likes

@accordingtobaily 7 жыл бұрын

This is the most powerful poem I have found about asexuality yet this is amazing

@Custom_Cosmic 8 жыл бұрын

Powerful

@lehlogonolomashao3933 7 жыл бұрын

amazinggg

@jabareywells6815 8 жыл бұрын

Damn.

@MCPerez 7 жыл бұрын

now that is a decleration at its finest through spoken word wow

@GayFrankenstein 7 жыл бұрын

Yes! Asexual representation!

@CMcm428 7 жыл бұрын

#deep