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Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not. As a queer woman-ish person who is also married to a man, I find it incredibly important to my mental health to be as out as I possibly can be. Yes, I have an amount of protection and privilege in that I can “pass” as straight. But with that privilege comes a very heavy burden of erasure and invisibility. When I started working on my preliminary sketches for this, I tried to narrow down what exactly I wanted to visually communicate. Being queer in the way in which I am means I’m constantly coming out, and sometimes I wish I could just stand on a podium and yell at anyone who will listen that I AM NOT STRAIGHT STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS.

You are seen. You are recognized. You are loved.

One of the few good things to come from second-wave feminism is this timeless quote: the personal is political. As a queer person in the United States, the message couldn't be more clear and urgent.

We are made of star dust. We are made to take up space.

Embrace the goodness that is your body, no matter what society might have to say about it. ALL bodies are GOOD bodies.

Life is too short to be stingy with your generosity and kindness. Treat people and animals and plants well, with reckless abandon.

Normalize and support a person's right to choose.

Abortion is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right. Abortion is a human right.

Politics aren’t some nebulous topics that are mere thought exercises. They are personal. They effect you, people you love, people you hate. They revolve around personal beliefs. The personal IS political.

Injustice for some is injustice for all.

"Feminism is for everybody." bell hooks

"Without community, there is no liberation." Audre Lorde

All bodies are good bodies, and BMI is bullshit. You can be healthy at any and every size — and neither your health, size, shape, or weight determine your worth.

All bodies are good bodies, and BMI is bullshit. You can be healthy at any and every size — and neither your health, size, shape, or weight determine your worth.

To grow up within a marginalized community sometimes means your ABC’s change a little bit.

"'Nice' is different than good." Stephen Sondheim

Abortion is healthcare. Healthcare is a human right. Abortion is a human right.

Piss off toxic masculinity everywhere and open the eyes of the masses to the fragility of the patriarchy.

Piss off toxic masculinity everywhere and open the eyes of the masses to the fragility of the patriarchy.

Declare your autonomy!

Remind yourself and others that the personal isn't trivial. The personal is political.

Justice for all.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not. As a queer woman-ish person who is also married to a man, I find it incredibly important to my mental health to be as out as I possibly can be. Yes, I have an amount of protection and privilege in that I can “pass” as straight. But with that privilege comes a very heavy burden of erasure and invisibility. When I started working on my preliminary sketches for this, I tried to narrow down what exactly I wanted to visually communicate. Being queer in the way in which I am means I’m constantly coming out, and sometimes I wish I could just stand on a podium and yell at anyone who will listen that I AM NOT STRAIGHT STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS.

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich