The Queer Portrait Project is a collaboration with the queer community, pairing each participant's narrative with my portrait of them. Queer people are often seen as faceless, autologous, nameless. One queer person becomes a representative and stand-in for a monolithic whole, robbing them of their own autonomous story. The Queer Portrait Project illuminates the breadth, depth, joys, struggles, and particularities of individual members of the queer community. The portraits and writings together illustrate the personal, distinctive, and particulate experiences of each project contributor.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

L.

Wearing a mask is a political action I choose to take every day. Respiratory precautions are the biggest sign that someone gives a shit about me and my disabled kin. Fighting the eugenics targeting our communities has become my life's work. There is some anger and despair when I see other queer people act like Covid isn't still killing us. My trans self is entwined, intimately and inextricably, with my disabled self. The future requires that we adapt to new ways of being, changing bodies, changing landscapes. Disabled people will not be left behind. We know how the fuck to survive. As for me- I am loud, I am bright, I am here, and I will go down kicking and screaming and loving and hugging and creating.
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