The Curbside Prophet

My name is Alyssa Mae.

I am a mid-twenties avid intersectional feminist, advocate, fighter, counselor, and friend. I will be graduating from Bucknell University in May with degrees in Psychology and Women’s & Gender Studies. I work with survivors of sexual assault and other trauma, and I fix computers for a living.

I often blog about what it is like to live at the intersections of a few different mental illnesses, queerness, and sexuality, along with posts about sexism, racism, rape culture, and LGBT rights. There is a trigger warning for these on my entire blog. You will see posts about depression, eating disorders, PTSD, panic disorder, and fat activism. This has been my safe space for four years now, and I reserve the right to ask you to leave it if necessary.

Welcome to my life.





Recent Tweets @mizzlyssamae

heated-spaghetti:

connotativewords:

May 9th, 2013

I hope you’ll try to fix me 

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(via getouttaqueer)

whidavrho:

queerbookclub:

[image description: a poster for an event called I Like Your Glasses: Queer Ladies Literary Speed Dating with Coverspy. Two pink silhouettes wearing glasses face each other. Other information given: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. $15 ticket includes 1 free drink. 10% off books all night! June 26, 2013 at 7pm. Registration required at housingworksbookstore.org]

housingworksbookstore
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coverspy:

We interrupt our spy reports to announce:

A new installment of the I Like Your Glasses series is happening.

Queer Ladies Literary Speed Dating…for those who’d rather be judged by their book cover.

June 26 at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. Reserve your spot here.

Design & illustration by Andrea Sparacio (artsparrow).

I Like Your Glasses is back! Tickets now available for Queer Ladies Literary Speed Dating here at the bookstore on Wednesday, June 26. Get them fast, last time it sold out in only a couple weeks!

We listened to feedback about the first ILYG speed dating, and hope to make this one even better than the awesome first installment. And we’re inviting queer ladies according to demand and to celebrate Pride Week; we’re happy to host a M4M speed dating, if you’re interested in an event like that please let us know! And we hope to do a M4W/W4M speed dating event in late August.

Why is this not a thing where I live???

(via rollad20andkissme)

thenewwomensmovement:

vqz:

before and after in moore, oklahoma. not good. so far all of my friends are okay, but there are many missing and 47 confirmed dead.

BOOST

stfuconservatives:

State officials, however, didn’t show up for the meeting.

I guess they didn’t tell her this before, but she got departmental honors for Classics. She rocks.

When I was a kid, I used to go over to friend’s houses and notice that their parents never seemed to bully them or hit them. I assumed this was just because they had a friend over, and that their parents terrorized them all the time when I wasn’t around. I didn’t identify my situation as abuse or reach out to a teacher or counselor because I thought everyone had to live through this. I was probably twenty by the time I realized that some families really don’t humiliate and belittle their kids, ever.

I wish someone had gotten that through to me. I wish instead of saying vaguely and uncomfortably “you can talk to the counselor if you have problems at home,” my teachers had said flat-out “it is not normal to be afraid of your parents, and not normal to be unhappy whenever you’re at home, and you can ask us if you’re not sure if something’s okay or not.” I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish.

And I’m probably going to make a whole post about this so I won’t belabor the point right now, but this is why feminists care about media and memes that normalize rape. (Or that stigmatize the words “rape” and “rapist,” but enthusiastically normalize the act of forcing sex on people, as long as you don’t call it that.) Because it tells people that rape is normal, that it’s a popular and accepted way to express romance and/or dominance, and we can’t assume that everyone absorbing this culture knows “of course that’s not how it really works.”

The Pervocracy, Everyone else is doing it… right? (via slutwalksignideas)

 !!! I wish someone could have taught me that wanting to be safe was human instead of selfish.

(via newmodelminority)

wow i know these feelings so, so well.

(via missvoltairine)

Oh. Shit.

(via holyfuckmeinthemouth)

(via coolestfword)

FUCK YES.

It’s official: I’M DONE.

Eff yeah. 6 rows back, just off center.