Many people today struggle with self actualisation and acceptance because of the box society expects and forces them to fit in. The reality is that humans are innately complex beings and as we move further into the information age, more people are realising that they have the option to create their own identities by making personalised boxes that adequately represents them. They create their own little boxes within society and do so as colourfully or as creatively as they please. Many have also found previously fabricated boxes and possibilities that they can comfortably associate themselves with. The aforementioned speaks of IDENTITY.

PRIDE for me, represents inclusion and is a celebration of diversity, difference and ultimately who we are. Pride is about living our lives with dignity, integrity, joy, courage, and in community with others without fear of being judged, discriminated or ultimately hurt for who we are or how we choose to identify.

My hope for the future is that it is truly and unabashedly QUEER. Queerness is evidence of more. It is a peek into the cauldron at the beginning of the universe (sorry I was binging Harry Potter). Evidence that we, in acting purportedly “against nature”, might ourselves expand it. It is evidence of the divine. Queerness is water from the stone, Lazarus from the depths, something from nothing.