Mister Lucky
“There is a sort of fluidity to the word [queer] that I really like… the nature of my identity is that it sort of moves and shifts and changes… there is a piece of land that I know really, really well, where the river floods and comes really high every year, and the riverbank changes every time the water goes back down, and so the shape of that place changes yearly, but it is still the same place, but it is also not the same place…for me queer is like that. The riverbank changes but it is still a river. It’s alive it’s not fixed.”
Juniper
“I was thinking about this a lot. So. Part of it is like being queer…I have hard time also thinking about these things without thinking about being a, like, nuero-diverse person, cuz, like, I’m on the autism spectrum, and, like, when I was growing up I had a hard time like making friends with most people in general, and even still I have a trouble, but, like, when I was a kid it was really difficult, and people thought I was just very strange, and didn’t want to really hang out around me at all, and so all of my friends were critters ya know, like the amphibians or the bugs, I also felt like people treated me sorta like a bug sometimes ya know, and so… people were always very disgusted by insects and frogs, and I would try to show people something I was excited about, like ‘oh look at this cool bug, or this frog, or whatever’ and people would be really disgusted by it. and I felt very similarly about how when I’m being vulnerable with people in general about like queer things.”