Title: Artist, Gender Rights Activist

Gender: Genderqueer/Fluid

Age: 21

Sun Sign: Gemini

Chinese Sign: Earth Dragon

Location: Sarasota, FL

When it comes to self-identity, people attach themselves to a number of different groups and descriptions, stigmas and benefits, colors and shapes. What do these identifications say about us?

And what is my identity?

I have never identified with the girls and women around me, nor have I ever identified with boys and men. I can't very well say I'm transgender, either, and I am comfortable with my body and my lifestyles.

I can no longer identify myself as homosexual, nor have I the experience to label myself heterosexual, or bisexual, and I am certainly not asexual.

I long identified as agnostic, but my identity as a Quaker is not quite right, either… so I've coined the term 'Quathiest' to sate the question of religion. But even so, I find these names and labels a little restricting.

I am an artist. I am an activist. I'm a New College of Florida student with an AOC in fine arts and queer studies. But am I definined by what I do, even creatively and communally?

I believe in equal rights for all human beings and a celebration of diversity of race, gender, sex, class, preference and identity.

As for me, I choose not to identify. The world and God are beautiful, open, creative forces, and I cannot allow society or myself to restrict me to only a small, assigned part of those forces.

I'm my own gender-nonspecific man, so to speak.

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“To have a self, one must have a non-self.”

I'm sorry, but I can't define myself by what or who I'm not. I refuse to be a non-self.

Dona Nobis Pacem.

For Equality,
Edward Lawrence
Lauren Edwards
A Beautiful Child of God. :)

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