Professional (gender)Queer
This could have been exclusively in my personal blog, but I decided to to share it here as well. These experiences are not exclusive to spaces in which being queer is unsafe, but they also exist in countries and societies that we think of as being more accepting. I am both queer in terms of sexuality and also genderqueer (non-binary), but I can easily pass as neither when I'm out in the world. I am married to a cisgender man and I haven't chosen to transition in a way that would make me appear to be physically more androgynous. I even often feel most comfortable with femme gender expression, which makes it perhaps even more confusing for people struggling to remember to call me they/them. For queer and gender non-conforming people, new social interactions can be difficult. Even more so for those of us who can't hide as easily. We have to think about how safe we feel in this new social situation, who we feel can be trusted to treat us with respect and ...