Queer experience

Have you ever wondered whether you might be queer? 🏳️‍🌈 The word queer is a wonderfully broad label that describes any non-straight and/or non-cisgender identity! It can be an umbrella term for any and all LGBTQ+ identities (including both sexuality and gender), as well as an independent label that people use to describe their experiences. ✨ The label queer has evolved a *lot* over time — from being used solely to mean “strange,” to being used as a derogatory term for the LGBTQ…

The fact that I had to wait till college for someone to teach me about queer theory as a way of analyzing literature and art was extremely damaging.It is erasure of the gay experience to which much of the artistic and creative world owes its many wonders.Michelangelo, Achilles, Oscar Wilde, Alexander the Great, and so many other potential role models and stories were simply brushed over.This robbed me and many other people the chance of seeing themselves reflected in history and the world…

“i am what i am”