The amazing feeling when someone sums up your thoughts perfectly… I was lucky to get that feeling. How so? Like most good things, it started with Beyoncé.
Now, I frequently tweet about Beyoncé:
Exhibit A
We know Bey plays Jay's Monster verse to chastise him, but Nicki playing hers to remind Kanye she slayed em on his own track? Revolutionary.
— Corvo Attano-Kaldwin🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@SageSaturn) May 21, 2015
Exhibit B
Oh god I'm defending Bey on twitter who am I even?
I take a look in the mirror and I say to myself: " baby girl you can't survive like this"— Corvo Attano-Kaldwin🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@SageSaturn) May 20, 2015
So yeah. A lot of my nirvana moments come through tweeting about Beyoncé (because did Beysus not slay for our sins?)
I like to read Bey in terms of narrative. Make stories that are fun.
— Corvo Attano-Kaldwin🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@SageSaturn) May 21, 2015
"Why don't you love me" might be Bey's ode to white mainstream feminism. "I bend to your expectations". But they said no.
— Corvo Attano-Kaldwin🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@SageSaturn) May 21, 2015
So she came back with BEYONCÉ.
Grown woman.
Bow down.
Flawless.
Feat. In Feeling Myself.She came back after having forged her own path.
— Corvo Attano-Kaldwin🇧🇷🇺🇸 (@SageSaturn) May 21, 2015
Through this tweet rant, I wound up talking to Jason, a psychologist I respect a lot. When I went over the conversation, I realized that a lot of his tweets expressed the ideas that Contemporary Queer was founded on. He allowed me to share them with you:
@SageSaturn how else will we grow if we don't find ways as adult queers to stand up and lead +
— Jason Evan Mihalko (@jaypsyd) May 21, 2015
@SageSaturn as well as have younger queers stand on our shoulders and sometimes topple us down?
— Jason Evan Mihalko (@jaypsyd) May 21, 2015
.@SageSaturn I want every young queer person to go further & farther than I could. More free, not more like me.
— Jason Evan Mihalko (@jaypsyd) May 21, 2015
@SageSaturn what I can be as a gay person was decided by somebody else. I can help another generation have more freedom.
— Jason Evan Mihalko (@jaypsyd) May 21, 2015
This hit me right in the feels because I’m constantly thinking about the future. I’ll spare you the vague “a better tomorrow” line, but I think Jason put our responsibility for the future into some great succulent tweets.
We need to do right for the future, whether through supporting their entrepreneurial activities or giving responsible advice. Our experiences can be a great help to them just as the experiences of James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, Audre Lourde, Harvey Milk, José Esteban Muñoz, and others. Just by being alive and speaking our truth, we are able to provide tools that help those who will come after us.
So what do you think? Do you agree with Jason? Or do we not owe anything to anyone but ourselves? Leave your comments below telling us why or why not. (Beyoncé gifs and video links are always welcome!)
