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Our visa to green card journey
(A shorter version was originally posted on Mastodon here:) San Francisco as seen from Crissy Field. This is one of my favorite places in the place I now get to call my forever home. In September 2018, my wife and I arrived in the United States to build our new lives. After 7 and a half years of paperwork, visa…
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Bawling at Birdsong
From a late night Mastodon thread about homesickness. Two years before I moved to the United States, I wrote something called ‘things I will miss when I have to leave Southeast Asia (because I am queer)’. I predicted that I would be deeply homesick, not for Singapore specifically, but for the entire region. Even though…
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What Pride Means to Me
Screenshot of a photo of a queer couple *With my wife Sabrena in the Paris metro in 2022* 1993: I am 8 years old. I am a scared little autistic girl who felt in my bones that there was something strange about me. Was it my obsessive, hyper-fixation on the things that interested me? My intense feelings? Or that I felt I…
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The Moving Calculus
Some time ago I read a tweet by a queer Singaporean asking why any queer Singaporean would move to San Francisco, citing the following shortcomings (not verbatim): San Francisco used to be a place where queer Singaporeans would move to, for safety reasons, but perhaps those safety reasons aren't that dire anymore San…
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An Exercise of Faith
This was published in QLRS in Jan 2003. I had weighed the burden of desire in my hands but in yours you weighed reality between your fingers, half serious even as we tried to kid ourselves (and others) nothing else quite mattered. I weigh now the desire of burden in my fingers but in yours you now weigh illusion…
5 posts tagged "queer"