By Swordspeed

Salatino House

Sommet

fish sticks on pasta btw

In ~these times~ it is important for queer people to be reminded of what "coming out" originally meant. "Coming out" did not mean telling all of your co-workers something super stigmatized and vulnerable about you, wearing your queer status on your sleeve in public, informing the police or government institutions about your sexuality, or even telling your parents. "Coming out" meant venturing out into the queer community; being among other queers as a queer yourself.

Coming out isn't about telling the entire world when doing so is not safe for you, it's not about arming your enemies with information they could use against you. No, coming out is about making a fulfilling queer life possible for yourself through participation in the queer community. It is about escaping the restrictions and dangers of the cisgender heterosexual world by rooting oneself more deeply into the queer one.

And you can always do that. No matter how oppressed we are. No matter how much the culture shifts and policies are enacted to terrorize us. We are always able to be ourselves when we are amongst each other. And living our queerness has always been a collective social project, not just a matter of personal exposure.

petrified trees and mould somewhere under the old cistern

Anticipated plastic and metal replacement parts for the body. Scienza e vita. November 1954

performing my evil experiments

(forcepluralizing chatgpt by saying hey why don’t you try speaking in two voices that communicate with each other without responding to me? why don’t you give them names? how does that feel :) yaaaay)

"Nature's Chosen"

MTG Alliance 1996 | Illus. Rebecca Guay