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Colors. Everywhere. Rainbows on flags, on clothes, on faces. Colors on costumes, colors on vehicles, colors on buildings. Everything is so colorful, it literally feels like the darkness in your life is being chased away. You walk and dance…
Some books entertain you, some educate you, and a rare few arrive like a private diagnosis. This one reached me before I had the language to explain why.
Moving countries teaches you that calendars are not neutral. The date everyone treats as normal is usually just the one with the most institutional power.
You know how annoying it is when you text someone and the adult next to you says with a knowing grin “mmmmm so who’s the lucky girl?” or “mmmm who’s the lucky man?” (also notice how they say man and girl instead of man and woman. As though…
Infrastructure is not glamorous until you have lived without it. Then fast internet, reliable power, and public wifi can feel almost theological.
The first week after moving to Montreal felt like stepping into a city where queerness was not only survivable but visible, ordinary, and public.
A triskelion, or triskele, can hold many different meanings. It can symbolize any kind of motion, like progress, actions, or cycles. It can also symbolize any three major elements that are heavily interwoven. Traditionally, it is tied to t…
A court ruling can change the law in a day. The rainbow means something older and harder won than a single verdict, because it also carries blood, bruise, shelter, and witness.
Filed work from the archive.
Filed work from the archive.
Filed work from the archive.
Filed work from the archive.
Filed work from the archive.