by Shawna Gordon
“I didn’t know where to go, so I went to the one place that didn’t have any doors. I took to the mountains.”
You have heard it said that you are an abomination.
But I say to you
that power-hungry people may not have the stomach for love beyond hierarchy.
And I say to you – Blessed are the queer.
by Lexi Aligarbes
This in-between world I occupy is a gift. Now this place is not a grey gradient, of not quite black or not quite white. Rather, the queerness of my in-between space has shown me that in this place there is a tangled mix of vibrant colors. It is full of possibilities.
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Sometimes in life you can get rung like a bell. You can experience something that resonates so deeply with you that surely those around you must have heard it – your soul chiming.
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“The geography of our lives matters.”
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I wonder what would have happened if I had just responded with, “no”. Would that have satisfied me? Or Justin? Would my own self-protection, my gatekeeping over the little privacy I had left as a trans pastors’ kid in a small denomination, been worth suppressing another round of rage?
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