For episode 6 of Cracks, we'll talk about how colonizer/settler/white supremacy culture seeks to contain and control our minds, bodies, and souls. We'll get energized about our relationship to color and gender and how they intersect and offer endless opportunities to sprout our soul selves from the cracks in the cement. Woohoo~!!!

Queerness in this context, for me, is my dwelling outside of the binary boxes created to control me. It's feeling into who I truly am without subscribing to fear-based societal containments. It's stepping out of the absurd obsession with putting rules on how we're supposed to be and present in the world. Feeling into the spectrums are where the magic and beautiful power lie~~!!! Remember as a kid we'd say "Let's go outside to play!" Well, I'm saying that now-- get out of those boxes and come out and play!!!!! 

Books mentioned: 

The Invention of Women, by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (I heard about it from Alok Vaid-Menon- https://www.alokvmenon.com/)

Chromophobia, by David Batchelor

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