In domains like gender and sexuality, we have managed to demand more words and vocabulary and descriptions that allow more of us to name our selves, our desires, our milestones. This evolving language was allowing more of us to walk into more rooms, but also I could see those rooms still had the same rules, the same problems, writes Joshua …
Those in the queer community most likely to pass off as straight are less preoccupied with safety than those like me who don’t pass easily, or at all. Safety is an issue for those of us with physical presentations that cause pause, that demand a retake, that bleed from the cutting questions | Joshua Muyiwa writes in ‘The Queer Take’ …
In his column ‘The Queer Take’, Joshua Muyiwa writes: I so want to travel and see the wide, wonderful world. In being a queer femme man, an outsider — I’ve trained myself to see, scan and scout the room for social cues and codes that carry these conversations along. Or in the words of the great Gia Gunn, “ Well, …
Having been perpetually watched over but never really seen for the people we might be, our queer bodies haven’t been allowed private joy. Having been perpetually watched over but never really seen for the people we might be, our queer bodies haven’t been allowed private joy, and to tack on the words of a transman friend of mine, “we aren’t …
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