Joy Giuffre (They/She)

Beginning to language and understand my queerness in my 20s felt like slipping into my own skin - something that was always with me/within me that I hadn’t known how to acknowledge before. Cisgendered or heteronormative practices have never felt genuine in my life and I was uncomfortable in my identity but up until coming to college I was unaware that there were any other ways of living. Actively existing as other in my queerness through artistic practice or through living freely allows me to continue to question/counter binary ideals and make space for the fullness of myself that I wouldn’t have been able to engage with otherwise.”