Shablam’s Reviews > Growing Up Queer in Australia > Status Update
Shablam
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"...my most comfortable moments were when I didn't feel looked at... I was not being seen. There was no one there who could see through me, or think of what I should be or how I should behave; and I have always been terrified of what people thought of me, as if what they thought was a hulking creature that would confront me if I should turn a wrong corner."
— Sep 11, 2022 01:31AM
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Shablam
is 29% done
"Coming out seems to be the foundational gay rite of passage. It's supposed to be a punctuation of your life, an empowering political act...
'when coming out discourses are privileged, the act of not coming out may be read as an abdication of responsibility, or the act of somebody who is disempowered or somehow ashamed of their inherent gayness.' "
— Sep 14, 2022 04:18AM
'when coming out discourses are privileged, the act of not coming out may be read as an abdication of responsibility, or the act of somebody who is disempowered or somehow ashamed of their inherent gayness.' "
Shablam
is 8% done
"But I am unlearning.
I am unlearning the self-loathing, the doubt, the pressure, the terror, the worry of being at one too much and not enough.
I have figured out that, just like me, the path to knowing myself is not straight (sorry)."
— Sep 10, 2022 07:57AM
I am unlearning the self-loathing, the doubt, the pressure, the terror, the worry of being at one too much and not enough.
I have figured out that, just like me, the path to knowing myself is not straight (sorry)."
