#that fifth point about embracing queerness and the queerness of being different as we choose to mask up!!!

[i-still-mask-because]

the reasons i still mask are numerous and interconnected:

because my grandmother is in hospice and i’ll be damned if i’m the one to kill her by getting her sick, i want her to live the rest of her life as healthy as she can be with cancer and dementia

because my mother works with covid+ patients every shift and i don’t want to spread a hospital-borne infection into the public, or get my mother sick and have her bring something into work or further disable her

because my city website lied about there being no covid+ patients in hospitals or ICUs, meaning that their statements about why they relax covid precautions cannot be trusted

to demonstrate to unmasked people around me that they can (and should) choose to resume masking at any point, though the sooner the better

because part of being queer for me is caring about others around me even when it goes against the status quo or “common sense”, knowing that the societal conventions of heterosexuality/cisgenderism/able-bodiedness do more harm than good

because i enjoy the fact that wearing a mask makes me look mysterious and frees me from having to care about controlling social cues for the bottom half of my face

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#ALL of this!!!!!!!! #that fifth point about embracing queerness and the queerness of being different as we choose to mask up!!! #EXACTLY!!!!!! #we HAVE to embrace the fact our survival depends on us not fitting in right now. we HAVE to. #our survival and the survival of marginalized folks depends on us rejecting the temptation of giving into eugenics in order to fit in #we have to ACTIVELY reject participating in the normalization of eugenics in order to save & protect each other #and 110% none of their statements about relaxing covid precautions can be trusted. #i recently found out the WHO straight up lied about covid not being airborne BACK IN MARCH 2020. #SINCE DAY 1. #i DO NOT trust these people with my life and the lives of the marginalized & vulnerable #thank you for sharing 😷💛 #covid #i still mask because #covid is airborne #covid isn't over #covid pandemic #covid awareness #ask queue