Name: Tongue Tied
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: This is for all of the QTIBIPOC who are frustrated with the language of whiteness being the main way to access and speak about gender and sexuality. For those who have been physically and linguistically policed by white supremacy, settler colonialism, and homo- and trans-normativity.

Tongue Tied

from War is Peace Punk by ZE

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This is for all of the QTIBIPOC who are frustrated with the language of whiteness being the main way to access and speak about gender and sexuality. For those who have been physically and linguistically policed by white supremacy, settler colonialism, and homo- and trans-normativity.

lyrics

Your queerness
Is spoken
With a
Pallid tongue

Labels
For thoughts & deeds
Blanched by
Whitewash

Linguistic
Autonomy
Negated
By conquest

Taken away, there are
No words to hear
Yet we have always
Been here

Taken away, there are
No words to hear
Yet we have always
Been here

Not erudite
Or tumbl'd
The names in my head
Are jumbled

I can’t even think straight

These categories were
Never meant for us
Even when I try to clear my throat
I find my tongue is tied

I’m tongue tied
My hands are tied
I’m tongue tied
My tongue is tied

I’m tongue tied
My hands are tied
I’m tongue tied
My tongue is tied

Your queerness
Is spoken
With a
Pallid tongue

Labels
For thoughts & deeds
Blanched by
Whitewash

Bodily
Autonomy
Negated
By conquest

Taken away, there are
No words to hear
Yet we have always
Been here

Taken away, there are
No words to hear
Yet we will always
Be here

Not erudite
Or tumbl'd
The names in my head
Are jumbled

I can’t even think straight

These categories were
Never meant for us
Even when I try to clear my throat
I find my tongue is tied

I’m tongue tied
My hands are tied
I’m tongue tied
My tongue is tied

I’m tongue tied
My hands are tied
I’m tongue tied
My tongue is tied

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from War is Peace Punk, released February 1, 2017

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ZE Chicago, Illinois

///QUEERING GENDER
///QUEERING PUNK

///Recommended if you like bringing an end to normative, apolitical punk.

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