A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.
albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.
People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.
I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.
I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.
I always thought that when I got into this business that I was going to have to downplay my Asianness and downplay my queerness, which is not an easy thing for me to do.
We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.
Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
