24-03-69 to 24-03-75

(5 minutes incl intro; 4:30-4:50 poem itself)

Would appreciate if able and comfortable (don’t out yourself if not) - be ready to raise your hands

CW: Marginalisation

Hands up if you (…hands down)

• consider yourself part of the Queer community
• identify with the Neurodivergent community
• identify as a Person of Colour
• have been the only person that looks like you in a friend group
• have a chronic health condition that makes some things harder than they would be without that condition
• have to live or work in a language you aren’t fully comfortable in
• had to worry about running out of money, realistically
• wondered if someone would have treated you different if you looked different

By any measure, we’re a pretty diverse bunch in here.

Ideally, that would mean that

Our presence is celebrated in most contexts.

Ideally, we would all be real used to hearing: