hardened

I feel pulled from all directions to look and act in certain ways. Queer scenes, comics scenes, the larger kyriarchical society, my birth family: Each context force-fed me images of how I should be.

Rachel Pollack, a trans woman who’s a comics writer, sci-fi novelist, and tarot expert wrote, “If images have trapped us, then images can free us.”

I like seeing artists make new images of themselves, images that integrate multiplicity.