gwimo<p>The last week of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PrideMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PrideMonth</span></a> wasn't a happy one for me. After some asshole ruined what we set up to celebrate. It was made worse when we learned it was within his rights to express himself, despite the campus having a hate speech rule.</p><p>Finally healing from that, someone I know (who I thought respected me) started misgendering & dead-naming <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ElliotPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElliotPage</span></a> after seeing that I was reading his memoir, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pageboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pageboy</span></a>.</p><p>What follows is a journal entry:</p><p><a href="http://chapincityblues.com/2023/07/12/quietly-queer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">chapincityblues.com/2023/07/12</span><span class="invisible">/quietly-queer/</span></a></p>