{"id":2846,"date":"2014-02-26T02:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2014-02-26T02:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:33:39","slug":"recently-my-grandmother-found-out-im-queer-her-ankle-deep-in-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/recently-my-grandmother-found-out-im-queer-her-ankle-deep-in-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently my grandmother found out I\u2019m queer. Her&#8230; &#8211; Ankle-deep in the river."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Cool, simple art project. -egg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluemantle.tumblr.com\/post\/77048586844\/recently-my-grandmother-found-out-im-queer-her\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/tumblr_n16hl29aQw1r3bsifo1_500.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='Recently my grandmother found out I\u2019m queer. Her... - Ankle-deep in the river.' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently my grandmother found out I\u2019m queer. Her response was to tell me that she disapproves of me living with my \u201cfriend\u201d i.e. my girlfriend and that I should give up my vile queer ways and become a Christian Lol. She even sent me a bible.\u00a0 Here are its remains, which I made into black-out poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Poem 1: Bisexual from Leviticus 19:9\u2014 \u201cHave sexual relations with her.\u00a0 Have sexual relations with him.\u00a0 Have sexual relations with both a woman and a man.\u00a0 Have sexual relations with yourself. Vomit on everyone who does not respect you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poem 2: Fisting from Judges 8:5\u2014 \u201cwater\/ lap the water\/ drink\/go down to drink\/your hands\/go down\/I give into your hands\/go down\/encouraged\/down\/on the seashore\/the whole hand\/your hand\/inside\/I get to the edge\/and shout\/grasping\/crying out\/Beth\/Beth\/Beth\/Beth\/Beth\/God\/I came\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poem 3: A Letter to the Exiles from Jeremiah 28:13 \u2014 \u201cZe said: \u2018Do not let lies name you, nor harm your heart. Gather. Raise the sword against them. They scorn and reproach, for they have not listened\u2014 again and again have not listened.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Poem 4: Child from Ezekiel 16:22 \u2014 \u201cYour father and your mother rubbed salt in. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough for you, for on the day you were born you were despised. Live! Grow.\u00a0 I looked at you and saw you were enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poem 5: Father from Ezekiel 16:22 \u2014 \u201cYou never adored us. You became very angry. You took some out on us. Your sons and daughters were not enough? You slaughtered\u2014 in all your detestable practices\u2014 our youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poem 6: Misandry from Acts 27:41 \u2014 \u201cDangerous men should be broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bluemantle.tumblr.com\/post\/77048586844\/recently-my-grandmother-found-out-im-queer-her\">Recently my grandmother found out I\u2019m queer. Her&#8230; &#8211; Ankle-deep in the river.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cool, simple art project. -egg] Recently my grandmother found out I\u2019m queer. Her response was to tell me that she disapproves of me living with my \u201cfriend\u201d i.e. my girlfriend and that I should give up my vile queer ways and become a Christian Lol. She even sent me a bible.\u00a0 Here are its remains, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-JU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}