I came home, there was graffiti on the garage.
I was really shocked.
I was in grade ten and it was my birthday;
the tradition was my friends wrapped up my locker.
We get to my locker and someone had written
dyke in permanent black marker.
When I was in high school there was a mural
and we got to put out names on it and paint our hands
and put our hands on the wall.
Somebody decided to write tranny fag beside my name.
I walked out of my school, into the parking lot,
there was my car
and in bright pink was the word fag written on my windshield.
It's weird because the parking lot was filled with cars
but it felt like mine was the only one there.
Yeah
It just made me feel really anxious.
I remember just feeling so empty when I looked at that wall.
It felt like other people had more of a say about me
than I did myself.
I felt unnerved,
I felt violated.
It was my house.
It's sad that people would take the time to write that.
My heart sank,
I had no idea who it was. So that's scary.
Growing up there was no Gay-Straight Alliances,
there was no LGBTQ anything in high school.
You didn't want to be different growing up back then.
My high school experience was pretty heterosexual
for the most part.
I very much felt as if I looked very masculine.
The labels like tomboy and butch, it was confusing.
Shame has played a large part in my life.
And I'm exhausted with carrying that around all the time.
There's like a mold of masculinity that you're supposed to fit
and if you don't fit it then you're different or you're less than.
When I first started in high school
I came out as a lesbian, and I started getting a lot of
homophobia from the students, from staff.
For the first two years it was not good, it was not pleasant.
So in grade 11/12 that's when I started more standing up
for myself and speaking up.
I've seen love overpowering hate in my life.
When it comes to transphobia it's about you
and you have to learn to build that thicker skin
to be able to say like "It's about me,
but I'm awesome."
For me the moments are like saying to myself
"you're not a bad person, you're not less than anyone else."
Sometimes it's the decision between self-hate and self-love.
Be like unapologetically yourself all the time.
Love 1000% overcomes hate.
One person did something to a garage
and 100 people had our backs.
Complete strangers offered to paint our garage.
The amount of love we received for this incident
was astronomical. It was off the charts.
If I could imagine myself there right now,
that teenager girl who I was in grade 10,
I haven't forgotten her and what she's gone through.
And it gives me the drive and the motivation
to help other LGBTQ people.
My life changed after 30.
Once you start being honest, your life improves exponentially.
And you have to take what happens to you
and somehow turn it into a positive.
This mural that I'm working on,
it's a piece that is supposed to reflect not where we were,
but how far we've come.
My inspiration for my art comes from my gratitude for just life.
Being queer definitely influences my art.
It's important for me to share my experiences
and the best way I know how is through my art.
As I grow, I definitely see the growth in the art.
Oh wow, this is incredible. All the colours.
It's very mesmerizing. It's amazing.
I feel like you can't like look at the same thing twice
in the same way, you know?
It's a good view.
I really wish you could have come to my garage and done this.
I think you're wonderful so..
So I tried to represent everyone's story, just flow
and getting through as well as through the colour.
A lot of the times life is all just about the flow.
So it was really important for me to turn that negative into
a positive and show that love truly transforms.
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