IMAGINE if I'd been able to see people like me from an early age. Queer, ND. Imagine if I'd not spent my entire life thinking I was weird and wrong.
Children and young people deserve to see others who look and feel like they do. They deserve and need to feel valid and seen. Anything else is harm.
Lovely little thread.
You don't have to be ready now. It will all be here for you when you are.
I replied that I had not, or maybe one for PE in high school, I couldn't remember.
"Then how do you do that?" she asked.
"I've always just been like this."
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30 Days of Queer Reading. #ReadingPride
Day 9: queer book over 100 pages
Well, damn, that would be about every queer book I've ever read! 😅
I guess I'll just go with one of the longest. Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir clocks in at 448 pages in hardcover. Necromancer Lesbians in space!
30 Days of Queer Reading. #ReadingPride
Day 8: Queer book w/a happy ending.
Most of the queer books I read have happy endings, so I'm going to go a little sideways here: All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Then ending was not your typical HEA, but I think was the best/happiest possible for Murderbot.
She then revealed that she had taken dance lessons from grade school through at least college, so the thought that this professionally-trained person thought I'd had such training, too, was awesome!
So nice to be seen. 😊
/fin
At Hillsboro Pride Saturday, a woman my age or a little older came up to me and asked about my "professional dance training."
"I haven't had any professional dance training," I said.
She looked a little non-plussed. "But when you were a younger...kid, you took dance classes?"
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badly drawn bee 🐝
Mood. Just about every time I go online...
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
