#queerpride

Happy Pride Month!!

June is one of my favs even though I hate summer because of Pride month, Juneteenth, my birthday and more!

Right now Pride month feels increasingly important in the face of current events- be you 24/7

Sharing some of my old art s

for the lesbians, gay people, bisexual people, pansexual people, asexual people, aromantic people, demisexual people, graysexual people, transgender people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people, agender people, intersex people, queer people, questioning people, and everyone else who falls somewhere under this vast and complicated umbrella—you belong here.

don't erase bisexual people when they're in different-gender relationships. don't erase pansexual people by pretending their identity is just a trend. don't erase asexual people because their experiences don't fit society's expectations around attraction. don't erase aromantic people because they don't center romance. don't erase nonbinary people because they make you rethink categories you've taken for granted. don't erase trans people by treating their existence like a debate instead of a reality. don't erase intersex people because their experiences challenge the neat little boxes people want human beings to fit into. and don't erase questioning people, because nobody needs to have every answer immediately to deserve support and community.

Pride began because people who were marginalized, criminalized, excluded, and silenced refused to disappear. it wasn't built on the idea that some identities were more deserving than others. it wasn't built so we could draw new lines and decide who gets to belong. it was built on solidarity.

so this month, celebrate loudly. support each other. learn about identities beyond your own. listen when people talk about experiences you've never had. challenge stereotypes. challenge gatekeeping. challenge the idea that queerness has to look a certain way to be real.

and most importantly, remember that inclusion isn't inclusion if people keep getting left out.

happy Pride Month to everyone under the rainbow—especially those who are so often told they're too much, not enough, too complicated, too invisible, or too different to belong.

Me: Yes...

....: Is it worth ?

I know there are a lot of urgencies in the world right now.

Including trans people's lives being threatened.

Let's imagine this reality into being...

Affirm. Support. Protect.

Because this is what love does.