queering home

a constellation of rooms we occupy from bed, online, and IRL

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queering home.

a digital repository of what makes home home / a collection of personal artifacts and stories that embody home / a space to make home online, from bed, in all its weird, messy, lovely, difficult glory

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// photos by Kate Laine on Unsplash / Hanna Hagelin on Unsplash / mine / mine / Moon on Unsplash / mine / Kate Laine on Unsplash // (left to right, top to bottom)

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my grandfather’s table, built with his own two hands, gifted to my father, and finally gifted to me as a place that now hold my keys and greets my as i re/orient myself to home.

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Some sun by L’escargot Papier

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// home is books gifted out of love and friendship // gifting words and places and memories // a secret santa gift from a long-lost friend who i look back on fondly // a novel gifted on a trip to visit a childhood friend // stories and poems from the mentor that believed in my writing, who pushed me and supported me // home is the people I carry with me and the objects that tell our stories

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cinnamon buns.

home is recipes passed down and memories made. home is my grandma's sticky buns on Christmas morning--sweet, time consuming, but worth it in the end.

// Photos by Star of the Sea on Unsplash / Aleksei Zaitcev on Unsplash / Otto Norin on Unsplash / (left to right) //

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home is recovery.

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home is making space for failure and growth.

// this tart took so many trials and failures until everything went right. home is making space for those failures, feeling them deeply, and picking up and trying again.

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// home is love painted on paper // home is my brother's art, carried with my as I move between cities // home is memories of laughter and blow-out fights, but no matter what, always being there

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home is community care. love in action. in times of joy and times of need. home is taking care of each other, of yourself .

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with my own two hands

in my family, there is a long held tradition of making things with your hands. my father makes masterpieces out of wood and his father before him did the same—a way to be thrifty and provide for his family when work and money was scarce. that deep held need to create with your own two hands, to provide for the people you love, was passed down to me in my own way. no less or better than creating with wood, just different and my own.

// photos by mine / Lena Myzovets on Unsplash / mine / mine / Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash // (left to right, top to bottom)

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home.

home is a collection of the people, objects, and experiences we carry with us. home is passed down recipes made with your own two hands. home is the stories attached to our prized possessions. home is pieces of passed down history. home is imagined and made up in our minds of the ideal, but home is also that one thing that tethers us to what’s real and good even when physical home is none of those things.

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home is creating with my own two hands // the smell of spiced apple pie on high energy days and nights // perfecting my technique to create something that's all mine // a legacy to pass on to those I love, blood relatives and found family alike (and different) // the pie that feels like coming home

// photos by LAUREN GRAY on Unsplash / Jez Timms on Unsplash / Duncan Kidd on Unsplash / Ellie Ellien on Unsplash / Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash / Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash / Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash / Hanna Hagelin on Unsplash / Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash // (left to right, top to bottom)

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tables.

all my life, i’ve oriented around the table—as a place to break bread and share meals, as a place to do homework, a place to play games, a place to hold life’s constant clutter, a place to share stories and laugh at funny (and quite unfunny) jokes, a place to decorate cookies at christmastime, a place to build community, a place to yell and scream and have blow-out fights, a place to create and destroy, a place to sit and rest, a place to build and create and love.

// photo by Mary Borysova on Unsplash