Queer Journey Book 108 pages of portraits and words from the queer community of Colby College 2020-2021. Printed by Blurb.
Portrait of Alaleh
Portrait of Wendy
“When I said goodbye to my uncle at the airport, he told me. “I will see you at your wedding.” I couldn’t say a word because I wasn’t sure whether I could still have a wedding. Or if I could, could I invite him?
Portrait of Sylvia
As a pansexual women, I feel the label of my identity is much more for other people then it is for me. I have never had to come out to myself. I feel like I have to pick a label for the ease of other people, even though pansexuality itself I see as a word to describe a label free orientation.
Portrait of Sophya
beep boop bop pow!!!
Never deny your intuition! you know yourself more than anyone else could! Look past all that self-doubt you’re grown accustomed to and really lean in to who you are. People are durable, and your identity is too!!!
Portrait of Lucas
Portrait of Reagan
I thought I was queer, but really I’m your pussy eating, big titty, sacrilegious Femme Fatal.
Portrait of Owen
The best thing I’ve done for myself, getting top surgery, made my body so perfect in my eyes but my body is now a political artifact, and people think they’re allowed to comment on it. I love my scars. They’re my battle scars of years of denying myself my truth and my needs. My scars don’t make me scary. I now live life 100% rather than putting so much effort into hiding. I’m just a badass goofball with some scars. They tell a story.
Portrait of Olivia
What is queer? That is the question. I’m me, let me be me. Smile, laugh, be happy, with me. Love me, hug me because I am just so much you too.
Portrait of Muna
Portrait of Lexie
The world wants to make me believe that my queerness - my transness is wrong, unacceptable, or not enough - but I AM QUEER JOY!
Portrait of Kenzie
Sweet sweet sweet
Oh, yes, I am and so are you.
Tell me until your face turns blue.
Passionately, undeniably, mouth-wateringly sweet.
Portrait of Muna
Here or there. I ask myself this often. “In between,” I say out loud in the long nights. Yes, I think I am okay with being nothing & everything all @ the same time. In between … In between..
Portrait of Beven
I treat my queerness like I treat my hair - with love, joy, and individuality. ‘cuz why be straight… when you can be QUEER + CURLY?!
Portrait of Lucy
Portrait of Gabriel
IN MY OWN SKIN
Not knowing how to describe with words how I feel is unsettling bc I want to say it out loud. I want to understand myself to feel comfortable.
Portrait of Avery
Sometimes I want to disappear. Take my (a)sexuality and hide away from the world. But other times I want to be so big. It is me. Sometimes I want to be me.
Portrait of Adrian
i was (am?) scared to be soft around others, to let the history -- the parts of me -- ooze out of the body Do you see me now? see these curves, see this soft? Choke on it
Queer Journey
2020-2021
These portraits and words represent my desire to connect with queers members of the LGBTQ+ community — a community I was deprived of growing up. Here, I welcome you to see us for who we are and read our narratives. Through the act of reflecting, listening, and conversing with each person I’ve met, I came to understand their individual experiences and how beautiful our identities shape us.