Pen

Titel

Pen

Alternate Description

Since I was a little girl, my pen was like the magic wand with which I could create multiple worlds; where I would find myself living adventures, discovering what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my universe and myself. My parents never understood why I hid away my stories from them. They would say, ‘Come on, just read us the first sentences, we are so intrigued to see what you have been working on for hours’... Well, the only problem with all my writings was that in most of them I would use the pronouns ‘he/him’ when referring to the main character. I always knew people would perceive this as something ‘wrong’, yet, while the years passed by, I realized that both the pronouns ‘she/he’ felt right when referring to myself... there was this second of awkwardness, this clash in my mind that always made me feel like the weirdo among my group of friends and family. So I kept these stories to myself, sleeping in the pages of my diaries, trying to convince myself that they never existed. But life went on, I grew up and I had the opportunity to meet different people, people like me, whose identities were pretty much like the characters in my stories. So, what happens when fiction becomes your reality? Well today I can say that writing allowed me to understand my gender expression, how the non-binary me was always there, knocking at my door, trying to use the pen as a key to give themselves the voice they needed to let me know that they were here, and we were a beautiful part of my identity.

Identifierare

SE_UNSTRAIGHT_575

Typ

User contribution

Åtkomsträttigheter

accessible to public

Status

completed

Redigerat datum

2017-01-23T11:22:29+01:00

Skapat datum

2016-12-27T12:31:34+01:00

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