growing up, south asian culture and queer culture felt like oil and water. something that just simply couldn’t mix. i come from a super repressive and oppressive culture towards LGBTQ people, with sometimes dire consequences if u openly love who u want to love outside of the heteronormative story. i’m pretty sure i liked girls before i liked boys, but it took me until this year in my 20’s, partly thru writing “temptation”, to be able to really verbalize and know in my heart that this was one of my truths. my heart is still fluttering a bit as i write this in a public space, nervous of family member reactions or on the other end, bi-phobia. but fucc it. im writing this from a plane 40,000 feet in the air , cocooned in the sky from all that Bs, and it feels a bit symbolic. i love people for their souls and something childlike and pure i might see in them first, the rest is really irrelevant to me. i hope that for lil brown girls in the future their queerness will feel nothing short of completely , 100% mundane and normal 🌈 📸 by @ladyist :)
