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(🧠 behind the scenes🧠)
Hmm. How to address this PRIDE collection?
Four years to find words to honor my journey and those on similar walks that feel like an uphill battle~~in hopes it leads to liberation, or slightly deeper exhales.
Could I share my experience around being the Gay-Straight Alliance faculty advisor in a conservative district and how my coworkers begged me not to take it on for my safety concerns?
How my first young secret love/relationship died days before I moved away for college. Being outed and excluded from her funeral services.
How when I finally came out (at 30!) my sweet Jesus-loving mother worried I was going to hell?
Me.
Going to hell?!
How I felt an innocent queer curiosity even in elementary/middle school — and my first “girlfriends” were actually from church? My dad calling me derogatory names…
How PRIDE is an IMPORTANT, not scoff-able celebration, Texas, because it’s for chosen family, reclaimed/empowered lives, and ACTUAL LOVE/radical acceptance over damnation. And how exceptionally pure that truly is.
How it does indeed get better?
It does.
Scratchingggg the surface here.^ Maybe one day these soul nuggets will be extrapolated…until then…
Queers and beautiful Allies, these creations are for you. For us. For expansive hearts. Inclusivity. Bold fashion choices inspired by post-storm rainbows. To honor the precious decisiveness around living in your technicolor truth. In taking up space. Not hiding. For mourning. Hope. Community. An outward expression of self-love. For joy. Life.
Living.
#pride #elnegra #elnegrainc 
