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FINDING FREEDOM IN FLUIDITY
40 | STRIKE MAGAZINE | ISSUE 07 FINDING FREE DOM
BY KAICHA NOEL
By your standards, I am a disappointment, a stain on the legacy you treasure so fondly. Why is it me you resent? Perhaps, it’s my refusal to let mankind steer me.
Voyaging on my own accord is shameful. Why for man’s approval should I be grateful?
By your standards, he lacks masculinity. His wardrobe and vulnerability provoke you. Sheer femininity contests his virility, as tact and taste become taboo.
Disgust surrounds all things effeminate, reinforcing the stigma of manliness being prominent.
By your standards, their love is a disgrace. sexual orientation is inflexible, allowing no room for one to deviate beyond what you’ve deemed acceptable. Heterosexuality and queerness cannot coexist in your world without your cherished customs becoming disturbed.
Your acceptance is riddled with conditions, only extended with compliance to your constraints. Boxes and labels preserve ideological traditions, suffocating us without an outstretch of grace.
We choose to live by different standards: finding freedom in fluidity, partaking in the vanguard, relinquished from your reins of captivity.
For what you fail to acknowledge rings true in our minds, that conformity inhibits self-expression.
As happiness blooms when showered with authenticity, and beauty arises from individuality.
Be grand on this path of life, fawning for no one.
FINDING FREEDOM
