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#PrideMonth 🏳️🌈We bear witness to intersectional queer artistic media, and the complex stories they tell.
- Manushya Foundation
- Jun 6
- 2 min read
📚Amidst a #Media landscape increasingly trying to silence, co-opt, and erase #Intersectional queer narratives, we must continue to appreciate queer media, and the artists #Creating it! Doing so ensures that the community’s stories are seen, heard, and felt, in the ways they were meant to be.
👀It goes without saying that the road to #QueerLiberation has never been linear, by any means. Even though there have been many recent wins for #LGBTQIAN+ protections and #Visibility, the community remains overshadowed by #SystemicViolence and inequities. Even when the ‘#MainstreamMedia’ claims to include LGBTQIAN+ ‘#Representation,’ we must remain conscious of who is shaping it. Is this ‘representation’ benefiting and advancing the #Liberation of LGBTQIAN+ people? If not, why, and who is it benefiting instead?
🌈 Everyone has their own unique story to tell, and the more of these stories we can hold, the more we grow our capacity to care for one another. For the LGBTQIAN+ community, storytelling has long been a form of demanding visibility, and the right to live and #Exist.
✊We acknowledge that some of the media and artists we are spotlighting might not be seen as ‘perfect,’ all-encompassing representations of the complexities of LGBTQIAN+ issues. But ‘perfection’ does not exist, and is a colonizer concept. The beauty of #Art and #Media is that it serves the purpose of communicating and telling human stories from the perspectives of the artists, and it is inherently up for interpretation by audiences. We therefore encourage us all to - while staying critical and working towards media literacy - stay radically accepting and welcoming of the full spectrum of LGBTQIAN+ expression, whether it is comfortable for you or not.
#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings
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