Queer Lives

The Queer Take: Questions straight folks ask LGBTQ people — and what it says of power dynamic

Over these many years, as a queer femme person living in this world, I’ve come to understand that the privacy granted to me by the general public is starkly different from the kind granted to other so-called 'normal' people.

The Queer Take: What LGBTQ coming out stories and superhero origin comics have in common

Superhero origin stories are engineered, made up to create narrative consonance, to act as a step to the next rung in the series. They are constructed, contrived and concocted. Coming out stories from the LGBTQ+ community have a similar style.

The Queer Take: The awful hollowness of being asked 'How’s life post-Section 377?'

At the core of it, this question — "How’s life post-Section 377?" — niggles me because it implies that something is different about my life now. And since I can’t seem to put my finger on it, I want to ask the questioner what they’re convinced that this difference is?

The Queer Take: Move aside Marie Kondo; the objects in my life serve as milestones along a wayward path

The objects that populate my house have become like milestones to trace the wayward path of my life so far. In all my queer friends' houses, you can lift up any object and they will be able to tell you the story behind it. And they will even tell the tale with style. It is because these materials are invested with meaning for them, for me, for each of us.