I miss the Parra Mardi Gras stairs. I miss their potential, and I hope to see them again.
Browsing: queer
Political lesbianism has a history of exclusionary ideologies. I want to see if (and how) it can empower queer folk who don’t exist within traditional binaries.
I love being Indonesian, but when I ask myself the question if it was worth hiding my queer identity to be accepted, I still grapple over the many intricacies of what it means to be Indonesian.
Directed by Rose Glass, Love Lies Bleeding, despite its crime thriller labelling and the copious amounts of violence, is at its core a love story.
My best friend and I are often accused of copying one another. It’s more complicated than that.
Drag provides a place where people create a character, first and foremost, and where people can connect with a part of themselves that has been hidden away.
The intersection between racial identity and queerness is often being left out while QPOC exist within those multitudes.
Many religious schools continue archaic practices of suppressing and excluding queer identities, leading to lasting impacts on students.
I should not have been explaining non-binary identity to my senior school director at the age of 17, just as my peers should not have spent their lives dodging homophobic jokes just for the chance to be included in their “normal” peer groups.
As Jesus at the Gay Bar exemplifies, queer coming out often resists categorisation as happy or sad; self-acceptance is not a linear process.