qcrip:For Pride Month, dedicated to every member of this resilient, amazing, sparkly family we call
qcrip:For Pride Month, dedicated to every member of this resilient, amazing, sparkly family we call the LGBT+ community, a celebratory message, a hopeful aspiration, and a prayer to those who paved the way for us. To Sappho and Shakespeare, to Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera, to Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker, to Gilbert Baker and Brenda Howard. My wish. May we be recognized for all our accomplishments: those we achieve as individuals and those we achieve as a community. May we be recognized for our art, our creativity, and our inventions. May we be recognized for our survival, our resilience, and our love, for our activism, our movements, and our goals, and for everything we have done, everything we have built. May we be recognized for all the ways we have made, and continue to make, the world a better place.May we be given the freedom and the information to remember our past. May our stories no longer be erased or ignored. May we be given time and space to mourn those we lost, and to celebrate the lives and futures they’ve mapped out for us. May we let the stories of those who are no longer with us be painted with truth and clarity, and may we one day live in the world they wished for us.May we one day live in a world where we’re granted safety, regardless of gender, regardless of sexuality, and regardless of all the intersections and oppressions we face. May this hold true in every house. May this hold true in every city. May this hold true in every country, and in all of the world. May we be protected from violence, from discrimination, from abuse, and from illness. May we be able to love each other, without mourning each other. May we always be surrounded with community. May we find spaces that are safe for us to be ourselves until the whole world becomes that space. May we uplift each other in not just pride parades in movements, but also in small things we do every day, every month, every year. May we also be given the freedom to love ourselves. May we be able to extend the care and compassion we demand for our community, to our own spirits, our own bodies and beings. May this be true those of us who are closeted, as much of those of us who are out and proud, and for those of us who are quiet, and those of us who are loud, and those of us who fall anywhere in between. May we have courage to feel confident in the lives we chose and freedom to love the people we are.May every member of the LGBT+ community, myself, my friends, my enemies, my followers, my coworkers, strangers and family alike, experience positivity, safety, hope, family, compassion, friendship, growth and healing, this month, and always.Amen.️️️️️[image desc: two photos of me, a nonbinary indian wheelchair user in a red outfit posing with a pride flag. In the first I’m lying down with my legs in the air with one hand on my hip and the other holding the flag, and in the second I’m sitting in my chair cross legged holding the flag and leaning forward]Photo by Shameless Photography and concept, posing, and writing by meSupport me by buying a print of one of these photos or any of my merch here or by following me on instagram here -- source link