OMG I LOVE THIS mobilehomecoming: It Happened to Me: I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy By Janet Mock (click on the picture for the whole story. this is my favorite quotation) We’re real together, and Aaron and the friendship and love affair that we’ve built is my foundation, a platform that has fortified my own sense of self and has, in the nearly three years since we met on that Lower East Side dance floor, given me the strength to step out of my shadow and come forward as a trans woman, lending my story as one of many narratives on what it means to be a young woman who happened to be born a boy. Aaron is better than my tweenage fantasies, better than the dreams I had of some boybander singing to me in a tree, better than anything I could’ve written for my protagonists. He’s better because he’s real, because he exists, because he wants more than just the idea of me. He wants me.

OMG I LOVE THIS

mobilehomecoming:

It Happened to Me: I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy

By Janet Mock

(click on the picture for the whole story. this is my favorite quotation)

We’re real together, and Aaron and the friendship and love affair that we’ve built is my foundation, a platform that has fortified my own sense of self and has, in the nearly three years since we met on that Lower East Side dance floor, given me the strength to step out of my shadow and come forward as a trans woman, lending my story as one of many narratives on what it means to be a young woman who happened to be born a boy.

Aaron is better than my tweenage fantasies, better than the dreams I had of some boybander singing to me in a tree, better than anything I could’ve written for my protagonists.

He’s better because he’s real, because he exists, because he wants more than just the idea of me. He wants me.

(via blackfeminismlives)