For all of you who’re on the Rainbow Spectrum, all of you who’ve recognized the within of a closet, all of you who’ve needed to inform your story and your reality once more (and once more, and once more, and once more) due to the oppressive world wherein we dwell and the assumptions that all of us dwell in, Joyful Nationwide Coming Out Day!
And in the event you’re IN THAT CLOSET, I respect you. I honor you. It’s okay to remain the place you might be. Now for proper now. Till you’re feeling protected sufficient. Till the world modifications sufficient to help you and your reality. Till you might be prepared. You aren’t much less to your decisions. You’re doing what you have to do for your self.
A few of us are supported. A few of us are rejected. And a few of us travel day-after-day, strolling between the in and the out each second. A few of us crave visibility with each ounce of our being. And a few of us need nothing greater than to be seen as simply one other human on this world, residing, loving, and going about our lives.
Right here’s to honoring these journeys, right now and day-after-day.
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About The Writer
Hello, of us. I’m Cassie Brown, government director of the NASW Missouri Chapter. I’m queer and nonbinary. I primarily use she/her pronouns. I’m additionally a author, clinician, tea aficionado, former speech, debate, and theatre child, a singer, a sister, a daughter, a retired trainer, a poet, a painter, an enormous board recreation geek, a Capricorn, a buddy, and a neighborhood activist. I do know what you’re considering. Simply while you suppose you already know somebody, you discover out they’re a Capricorn.
