Queer, as in...
An exploration, a celebration, a collaboration, a litany, a poem, a spell
Dear ones,
This summer marks three years for me of choosing to honor my queerness. That feels like a big deal to me. One of the things I’ve learned over the past three years is that there is no ONE way to be queer. There are about as many expressions of queerness as there are queer people. To me, that is deeply beautiful.
My wish for all of us this pride month (and beyond) is this: May we all be free to celebrate all of who we are without fear.
With love and pride,
Sara
I’m proud to say that this piece was created in collaboration with 14 other beautiful souls! (How freaking rad is that?) To all of my collaborators, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Word magic by:
, , , , , , and.Audio magic by: Eleanor Sayre, Ishmael Walker, Jenny Stanberry, Mace McDonald, Margin Zheng, Melinda Chinen, Nathaniel Mich, NewAgeGriot26, and Rey Link.
And, now, (drumroll please!) I proudly present to you…
Queer, as in…
Queer, as in…can see an infinite amount of colors between black and white
Queer, as in…will resist any box I’m put in
Queer, as in…there are no lines to color within
Queer, as in…using ALL of the crayons
Queer, as in…always here for the third option
Queer, as in…can see at least 4 different points of view for any given situation
Queer, as in…embracing the beautiful complexity in everything
Queer, as in…life is too short not to feel everything
Queer, as in…I am a cultural descendant of Whitman
Queer, as in…we all contain multitudes
Queer, as in…made up of chaos and stardust
Queer, as in…witchy as hell
Queer, as in…our weirdness is our magic
Queer, as in…always being a little different
Queer, as in…talks to plants
Queer, as in…why limit love?
Queer, as in…not here for your bullshit
Queer, as in…always mixing flavors
Queer, as in…beautifully masculine
Queer, as in…brutally feminine
Queer, as in…this division is killing us
Queer, as in…both/and and and
Queer, as in…either, or, neither, nor
Queer, as in…I want to experience all of myself
Queer, as in…everything is a spectrum
Queer, as in…there is no “normal”
Queer, as in…I am not who I was yesterday
Queer, as in…constantly questioning
Queer, as in...unabashedly choosing, with intention, every single day
Queer, as in…beyond right and wrong there is a field…
Queer, as in…cosmically tired
Queer, as in…facing reality when everyone else is denying it
Queer, as in…madly marvelous, and marvelously mad
Queer, as in…GOD knew what I was before I did, and yet, I’m still here!
Queer, as in…a rainbow canary in a big-ass coal mine
Queer, as in…sick of the toxic cultural Kool-Aid
Queer, as in…turning what haunts us into our superpower
Queer, as in…loving my softness
Queer, as in…sick of being good
Queer, as in…resisting, persisting, insisting, existing
Queer, as in…brave, resilient, contradictory, wild, joyful, authentic
Queer, as in…queer spaces
Queer, as in…my tribe
Queer, as in…feels like I’m really home
Queer, as in…I never fit anywhere else
Queer, as in…I love it here
Queer, as in…you don’t know me!
Queer, as in…you know me so well
Queer, as in…my appearance doesn’t define me
Queer, as in…what you see is what you get
Queer, as in…not who I fuck, but who I am
Queer, as in…simply, gorgeously, ME
(I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out
here and send deep thanks to for making this collaboration possible.)
Every single one of these speaks to me, I wish I could quote them all Sara (I settled on the Whitman section for Notes :) - this is wonderful! 💛💚💙
I LOVED the chimes/bells between each section. And great having the different voices. Bravo on a wonderful and rich collaboration!!!