Advocate, Poet, Quaintrelle, these are just a few words I’ve often prescribed myself as identities, labels if you will. But I’m also biracial (South Asian) genderqueer (they/them), bi, and more. As of July 15th, 2023 I turned 20 years old.
What is a label? Well, the Oxford dictionary defines it as a classifying label or name given to something to put in a set category. The thing is, it isn’t always so. At least as a queer person I give myself words to describe myself the best way I can and hope it’s comprehensible to others. But really, few people like being small minded and limited in their ideas or notions of themselves.
I wasn’t always so confident. Amongst other things I’ve done this year I finished a book draft, started on a novella and rediscovered my love for history. People are complicated, I think we do ourselves a disservice in letting people be simplistic. Everything is a spectrum and I mean, quite literally, everything. We should expect better of ourselves and our peers but to jump on some ‘canceling’ train upon a mistake is merely absurd. Additionally, context matters.
I began by talking about labels. For the sake of consistency let us consider community, the fact it does in fact take a village and language is often subjective and varies from person to person. “To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde
- Adrienne Marie Brown: we will not cancel us – book: https://www.amazon.ca/We-Will-Not-Cancel-Transformative/dp/1849354227/ref=asc_df_1849354227/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459680975230&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7516860920554977775&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000833&hvtargid=pla-984081571629&psc=1
- Adrienne Marie Brown: we will not cancel us: https://adriennemareebrown.net/2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel-us/
- My tumblr: https://meerawrites.tumblr.com/
- My link of links: https://bio.link/meeras
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