...; the clear tongue of fire parted down the centre. the damned to the damned. Still as a favor, from time to time... a moment and a moment, and a moment and you'll wake in cold and ragged voicelessness. remember that. Measure your day in coffee cups, your evening in aches. But wake. There are things we needs must do to get by, young lady. Yours (after a fashion,) -J. Alfred Prufrock (after a ...

... greeted with criticism and the accusation that I was being deliberately divisive. I went to bed that evening feeling guilty for speaking my truth, and began internalizing feelings of shame and a sense of voicelessness. Coming out in the more conventional sense has also been a part of my experience. I realized that I was gay around the same time that all of my friends were going on their ...