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Identity politics got you down?
We walk on egg shells
Culturally sensitive is what millennials bring to the table.
Awareness.
Hyper Awareness of knowing your story is different than mine.
I probably have some privilege.
I probably have some-
alotta privilege.
Come thru and correct me as I navigate
appropriation
YASing
basic gay millennial
(five story window)
and
I am a boy in a dress.
It's nothing new to the world.
(That's for damn sure).
and nothing new to my body
my six yr old self YASes from the inside.
I am a 6 foot 2 white male
and when I put on a dress-
Venus Xtravaganza
Touch this skin,
darling,
touch this skin hunny,
touch all of this skin!
Okay?
You just can't take it!
Her murder unsolved.
Chopped her up my gay brethren echo into the Manhattan skyline
at 23 her skin is taken
and I stand on a rooftop in queens
kweens
aware of the freedom my h and m dress gives me
that a sister gave me.
I don't shave my face
or my legs
because it upsets my pores
and I like the way his body hair feels on mine
and I like how it looks
with my dress.
I don't identify as trans
(and 4eva a gay boi).
but my trans sisters have paved the way
for me
to explore
to figure out
a dress.
Queer.
adjective;
strange or odd
verb;
spoil or ruin
(an agreement, event, or situation).
I put on a suit. Ordain a wedding.
The vest is XS
and she fits how I likes it.
What's with the dresses?
I identify as a Crossdresser
the same way I believe in God
and the two are related hunny.
The only english speaking words that embody the idea of what I am trying to communicate.
What am I crossing?
When I put on a dress-
what am I crossing?
Gender?
Gender politics.
Cis-male
seems to fit
a little specific for my taste
a little
tight
and then
we're tired
but I am a cis white male.
6 foot
2
2.5
3
6 foot 2.5
male
and I know it
and so do you.
6 foot 2.5
male
in a dress.
and you know it.
and so do I.
Please explain to me how this makes you feel.
or don't-
but it does.
My existence makes you feel
something
I make you feel something, hunny.
A man in lederhosen
stumbling solo
down an Astoria street says
Wow.
I YAS him
he WOWs me
and
my sisters
have my back.
wow queer god venus
I feel most comfortable identifying as a crossdresser.
The feels.
Millennials will give you their intellectualize feels
(That's for damn sure).
I believe it's because we are having a reaction to the baby boomer generation who neatly placed their feels in a mason jar under the kitchen sink.
flowers in a mason jar atop my long island city kitchen counter
I put on a dress
just to be.
My Being
to you/ to me/ is crossing
my crossing tends to look a lot like Jesus.
I get Jesus a lot, bebegrl.
