Let's Start at the Very Beginning...

I wrote this prior to the new administration being ushered in. That's why it is written in future tense. I was afraid to post it initially. But I want to bring myself back to writing. So bear with me as I get back on my feet.

I gave up Dragged to the Inside for years.

But, wait,  didn't you start it because you loved it? Well, yes. I did. I started it with a clear plan of what I wanted from it. Which was to teach, and to talk about drag and how it came into play in my life. But, as time went on, I stopped following the plan

Why, though? You were on a good kick with it!

The long and short of it is that at one point, I'd given negative feedback about a show I'd attended. And it came back like a face slap. What I didn't consider at that point, is that even though it was me talking about my experience, I was talking about other people. And I had hurt some feelings. That had never been my intention, and it hurt me to the core to know that I had hurt other people.

That being said, I realized recently just how much I missed it. Well, I miss being creative as a general rule. But I really missed the teaching piece of it.

One of the biggest moments ever from my blog, came in the form of an anonymous comment. It was from someone who knew me in my real life, who I had inadvertently helped them.come to the realization that they were something other than the person who they had always been. I assumed at the time that I knew who it was, and that they were coming out as bisexual. I've since come to believe that it was someone else, and that I had helped them to realize that they needed to transition.

I want to get back to that. I want to feel like I'm doing something good for the world. So, maybe it's time to go back to basics. In a matter of a couple of weeks, we will be ushering a government administration that wants for people like me and my friend circle to not exist. So, I feel like it's up to us to educate the world on why we deserve to exist. Especially given how much creativity would be lost to the world if all the LGBTQIA+ people were to be exterminated. (Yes, I get that that sounds like I'm being extreme, but, nobody figured that Hitler was going to exterminate 6 million Jewish people and another 5 million other people, either, so...)