"I don’t know what we owe our dead. I know it’s more than the reductive simplicity of we have always been here. I don’t know what it means to live that knowledge out loud, to make space in my life for the messes and triumphs of my ancestors. I don’t know where I belong, how I fit, what it means to be a queer woman in 2023, moved and broken open and challenged by these queer texts from 40, 60, 100 years ago. “But I can feel and I can write the word”—so that’s where I begin."
"I don’t know what we owe our dead. I know it’s more than the reductive simplicity of we have always been here. I don’t know what it means to live that knowledge out loud, to make space in my life for the messes and triumphs of my ancestors. I don’t know where I belong, how I fit, what it means to be a queer woman in 2023, moved and broken open and challenged by these queer texts from 40, 60, 100 years ago. “But I can feel and I can write the word”—so that’s where I begin."
Gorgeous, Laura.
Thanks, Sarah! That means a lot to me. <3