PERSI

“I have struggled most of my life to find my voice, my identity, my power.  I grew up being told who I was supposed to be, and the older I got, the more I realized I could not be myself.  I shrunk myself to fit other people's ideas and expectations of me.  I felt powerless. 

Now I know I am a fat, queer, non-binary trans person. Words that were once used to hurt me I say with pride.  I know who I am. I know my beauty.  My intelligence.  My sensuality.  Wearing this harness is me claiming and celebrating my queerness.  My transness.  My fatness.  My power.  And now, you will submit to me.”