FebulousFebruary 2025: Lost and Found

Self Portrait Two

My queerness is part of my identity

The joy of my chosen families

My queerness is one of nature’s glories

The flowering of my legacies

My queerness is the African in me

The taboo of my oppressors

My queerness is being out of the closet

The guilt of my queer bashers

My queerness is the celebration of all beings

The fact of life

Queer is in every culture and race

The rejoicing of difference

Queer the sexuality of many people’s

Is nature’s own deliberation

My queerness is your fear

My courage

Your exclusion

My embrace

Your shame

My pride

Your fantasy

My reality

Your deception

My revelation

Now say my Name.

Vimalasara Mason-John, 51 complete, 52 running, Vancouver

Dr Valerie Mason-John Aka Queenie is an award winning author of five books and the editor of two anthologies. She co-wrote the first book on African and Asian Lesbians in Britain,  Making Black Waves while also editing an anthology of writing by African and Asian Lesbian, Talking Black African and Asian Lesbians Speak Out. She is ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Community and renamed Vimalasara. She is currently co writing a book Eight Step Recovery Using The Buddhas Teachings To Overcome Addiction.

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