queer joy is resistance

on feeling 'queer enough' + your invitation to a queer joy summit

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This feels like an absolutely perfect week to talk about queer joy as resistance! The concept of queer joy challenges the idea that being queer is defined by pain and trauma, and it honors the creativity, resilience, and beautiful humanness of people in the LGBTQIA+ community. Queer joy is resistance to limiting social norms and ongoing oppression. (Ahem!) Queer joy means being able to stand in your own truth and experience the authenticity of others without fear of rejection in a diverse and powerful community. 

I can only speak from my own identity within the queer community. If you know me, read my memoir, or are a regular prism reader, you know that I identify as a lesbian who was formerly married to a man. It's not that I "came out" later in life so much as that in my forties, I started living more into the queerness I'd always known inside myself, after decades under the influence of compulsory heterosexuality. Like the tens of thousands of sapphics in the "late in…