Heteronormativity

(thanks to Dayle Takitimu for inspiring me to write this)

Persecuted
Criminalised
Medicalised
Marginlised
Patronised

Yet we embrace them
Want to be like them

Overall clad dykes

Striding the heteronormative streets
Chanting challenging
Every woman can be a lesbian

Straights
Frozen in fear

Radicals demanding liberation

Not equality

Committed to destroying the institution of marriage

Not buying into it.

Master give me permission to breathe

Marriage and Family
Patriarchal prisons

We never wanted equality

We wanted liberation.
We were going to change the world

Conform – Never

Father which art in...

Please give us permission to look up

Conventional

Traditional
Normal

Words diametrically opposed to my dyke identity

State please give me permission to speak

Second class – never

But I quote:

The exclusion of a portion of the population from a major social institution creates a second-class citizenship for that group. This is a humiliating experience, whether as individuals we feel humiliated or not

I have never felt excluded because I was unable to marry

I was excluded because

I am dyke

I am tattooed
I am Butch

I was excluded because

Because I speak out

I have never felt like a second class citizen because I could not marry 

I was made a second class citizen because I would not be like you

Please straight gay people Permission

To live as you

To become you in everything
That is not me

It is not my mantra to beg

It is not my mantra to conform
To just be like everyone else

My mantra

our mantra

revolution

Demanding the right for all straight people

To live as

• Monogamously
• Non-monogamously
• Single
• Celibate
• Child free
• With children
• With cats
• With dogs
• Without pets

As we do

To live as

• Fabulously
• Staunchly
• Politically
• Sportingly
• Spectacularly

As we do

My challenge to all you normalisising homosexuals echoes my Māori sisters challenge

and I quote:

"It is frustrating when those seeking to emancipate themselves seek the approval of those who have assumed the right to enslave them...fundamentally undermining your own inherent mana - shows me you don't really believe in it, cause you won't back it unless the master gives you permission".

Master – god – state - man – heterosexuals –gayley normals

Marriage is an insidious social construct!