“Forbidden Love”

Trust Your Feelings

In a previous essay I wrote about how the Patriarchal Dominance Hierarchy that our society is, overwhelmingly, grooms, trains, all of us, from very shortly after we are born, to adhere strictly to a uniform cis-gender, heterosexual model of thinking and behavior.

The punishments for straying from the prescribed models of “normal” life are increasingly harsh the farther a person strays from the…