TQI - A Poem

It is Poetry Friday. Thank you Carol for hosting! Here's the link.

The poem draft I'm posting this week is inspired by the removal of the TQI letters and related information from the LGBTQI page of the State Department's travel website. The body of the poem has been written without those letters.

TQI

D-d you -h-nk -ha-

w—hou- me your world would

be eas-er somehow? Be--er?

Wrong.

- am beyond your ab-l--y to erase.

You have only made the spaces where – should be

so obv-ous.

You f-nd yourself reach-ng for me

-n -he m-ddle of your -hough-.

You never even no--ced, d-d you?

-he way – am -n every-h-g.

-he way I am -n even your mos-

-u-e-, pr-va-e -hough-s.

-he way you can’- even

ha-e properly,

w--hou- me.

~Sarah Grace Tuttle

This is your periodic reminder: I am polygender, which puts my identity under the Trans umbrella. And, I am queer. So, let's be clear that the politics are personal here. The Trump Administration's hateful anti-trans agenda puts me, personally, at risk. I will not ever, ever, stop celebrating my identity. I will resist every attempt at erasing or invalidating my identity. Please, resist with me.