"For me, being queer is being outside the norm. It’s being different. I’m very positive about the fact of being different. That’s the really cool thing to think, you’re the best at being YOU. Nobody else can do you like you, so own it. I really want people to own the fact that they are queer – to know that it’s not something they have to hide or be ashamed of. It’s something that’s really great about them because it differentiates them from other people. It’s about finding those communities that fit our different identities, because nobody’s gonna be this stereotypical person; we all have these variations that should be celebrated."

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Micah, a queer trans rapper from Boston (check out his track Did it On Em) and an old personal friend, in an interview with bklyn boyhood.

Read the rest of the interview here: bois will be bois - The U.N.Eyewitness Presents…An Intimaterview with Micah Domingo!

I really like the way Micah claims both his queer status and his trans status. I’m all for being proud of being different, being outside the norm, and it can be a very powerful thing.

He also sort of lays out why I identify less and less as queer: I have found that I actually fit pretty well within the mainstream and like it here (though I absolutely hate normalizing it). I don’t see myself as being so different that I need to differentiate myself from non-trans/queer people.

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