Rec | QUEER GRAVEYARDS

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as i come closer and closer to accepting my identity and taking steps to actually transition i mourn the people i grew up with who i called by different names than they go by now, who grew out their natural hair color or chose one socially acceptable, who used different pronouns and dreamt of life as a boy- who now can’t wait to be a wife… im the only one left it feels. something must have shifted between 2017 to now, and the losses i can count on my fingers. they’re all buried and i don’t think any of them are coming back. do you remember middle school- where it was harder to find someone who Wasn’t queer and it seemed like everyone was more themselves? i cant bury this and i wont, but it makes me sad to think about the ones who are still sleeping.

@mayaroni

Apr 16, 2025

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@ayanna

so beautiful bae 🥲

May 10, 2025

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