I know that the safety and the comfort I feel in my expression of queerness is still not a reality for a disproportionate amount of people who are Black, Latinx, and Asian…This is to say that a revolution of gender, fashion, and queerness should not be watered down. And I can't shake the feeling of inviting violence and action against me and the community. People who never were able to dress like this because they feared so deeply being killed, cast out, and hurt. I find it impossible to not think of the history of violence against people not as lucky as me, people who were killed for dressing like this. I remember the bullying, the harassment, and the physical abuse at the hands of members of my closest circle.
'Dressing up is heavy at times it holds a physical memory of violence against myself.
