identity
Queering is not about being queer but about doing queer – about going beyond binaries of gender and sexuality, questioning accepted perspectives, and challenging and upending normative ways of being in the world.
If you’ve got a body, in which you’re going to negotiate this life, you have to know how it works.
My identity unfolded slowly during my postgraduate media studies course, where I was exposed to peers from different socio-economic backgrounds.
Queerness is a free-flowing identity that embraces anyone, including young children, who step off the assigned binary path.
To be a gentle / friendship breaker for S. To be // a candle-lit confetti apology for S.
Sexuality makes me think of an erotic adventure. Something that helps us be alive to the world around us, and to life around us.
The pandemic and lockdown isolation made recovery harder for people with sex or porn addiction because of a lack of support systems that enabled their recovery.
From silver screens to pages penned,
Our identities explored, where journeys never end.
The assumption that everyone experiences love and attraction in a similar manner is deeply alienating and harmful for the a-spec community.
Digital entanglements transcend bodies, time, geographical borders and boundaries, influencing – and perhaps fundamentally changing – the ways in which we understand, explore and express our sexuality.
In my flesh, I must pass
for straight…
But in the digital world,
I can be me.
In tailoring the way we present ourselves to the world – be it as fashionista, frump or an artful fusion of the two – we think we are the ones making a choice about how we express our gender and sexuality along with other markers of our identity.
Fashion is a language that expresses survival, rebellion, freedom, visibility and invisibility, identity, representation and inclusion.