Kaleidoscope | Episode 10: Turning the Prism

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTICE You’ll hear me say in this episode that trans people are the least LGBTQ and the most LGBTQ at the same time. I framed it as us breaking every gender rule while also just trying to act ‘normally.’

Listening back, I don’t love how I said that. It sounds like I’m ranking queerness, like some kind of least-to-most scale, and that’s not who I am, and it’s not what I believe.

The truth is, there is no hierarchy in queerness. None of us are the least, none of us are the most. LGBTQ people are fully LGBTQ, in ways that are everyday and extraordinary at once. Sometimes that looks like breaking rules; sometimes that looks like living quietly. All of it counts. All of it is real.

And I also want to be clear: just because I person ...