Nov 30 2008
You Can’t Fight Destiny…
Realized today that I’m a billboard, meaning an advertisement. For some people, I’m the only queer, the only African American, and (all too often, even in 2008) the only disabled person many people will ever meet. This puts me, often without my knowledge or consent, in the role of representing my various subcultures to the mainstream population. I never asked for this role and, even though I’ve been forced to play it since childhood, I have at times felt extremely unprepared.
As a smart aleck 12 year old, complained to my mother about feeling not ready for all this responsibility. She said, “Do you think anyone prepared Martin Luther King?” I was silenced; who could argue with that.
- When You Can’t Stop Eating
- If you can stand the heat, be in the kitchen.
- So You Think You Can Dance
- Little Pig, little pig. You can’t come in.
- “CATCH ME IF YOU CAN” SAID THE BEST TORONTO LAWYER WHO EXCELS IN PRACTICING ALL AREAS OF LAW BECAUSE HE IS AT HIS BEST PRACTICING LAW! HE ALSO WALKS WITH GOD!
