feeling full
By shag carpet bomb • Jun 21st, 2010 • Category: QueerUnfortunately, Kiley’s experience is pretty much what I’ve seen around here. Although I’ve never had the good fortune to visit SF, I’ve lived in far more accepting places than this place. As I said when I first started working in this area, the level of public, unabashed, unapologetic hatred expressed in my workplace used to drive me nuts. I mean, back when Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was popular, I mentioned watching it once and people on my team freaked out that I’d even said the word, Queer. Anyway, read Kiley’s post. There were parts that made me so sad, the level of unfreedom that those of us on the left say we want to fight against - it’s too often ignored and seen as somehow not as important as material want.
In a general sense, I was traumatized to be leaving a city that offered so much personal opportunity, an opportunity to live as a fully-realized human being, to feel fully human and of worth, in a way that seemed impossible in socially-conservative Hampton Roads
feeling full isn’t just about having a full stomach. it’s about feeling full - as in fully human, full of value and worth, fully realized.
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