Keywords:
family structure, queer, arts, resistance
family structure, queer, arts, resistance
Transcript
Catherine: What was so funny actually, bringing up this entire principal again is when we were talking about visibility as a queer family is that the next year they had a family picnic and we were nervous but we were like, “let’s go”. And the guild, I don’t know if you know about the Scarborough Guild, but their sort of the upper class part of Scarborough because of the fact that they’re so close to the bluffs, so it’s very expensive to buy real-estate there, so it’s mostly white neighbourhood, mostly moneyed. We got there and it was like as if, I don’t know, like we were licking a monkey’s asshole, we – people really thought that we were freaks. So we’re there, we’re nicely dressed, we’re there to eat some hot dogs and everything, and it got to the point that we were being stared down so hard that when they started playing music we full on just started dancing. We – they had like a…
Nazbah: We just took up space, yah.
Catherine: We – they had like these Zumba dancers, and we were like, “who cares”. We were dancing really hard ‘cause we just didn’t care. The funny thing though is that the principal comes up to me in the middle of it with this other queer mother – comes up to me and she’s like “I just wanted to introduce you to – whatever her name is - Beth, because she’s also a lesbian and I thought that you should, you know because you’re – you know”. And then left with her arms up like this. Like as if like, “I’ve done my job.”
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Catherine: I am appalled that someone of that stature who has that much power over children does not leverage her privilege in order to make sure that kids are better equipped to be around LGBTQ folks.
Catherine: What was so funny actually, bringing up this entire principal again is when we were talking about visibility as a queer family is that the next year they had a family picnic and we were nervous but we were like, “let’s go”. And the guild, I don’t know if you know about the Scarborough Guild, but their sort of the upper class part of Scarborough because of the fact that they’re so close to the bluffs, so it’s very expensive to buy real-estate there, so it’s mostly white neighbourhood, mostly moneyed. We got there and it was like as if, I don’t know, like we were licking a monkey’s asshole, we – people really thought that we were freaks. So we’re there, we’re nicely dressed, we’re there to eat some hot dogs and everything, and it got to the point that we were being stared down so hard that when they started playing music we full on just started dancing. We – they had like a…
Nazbah: We just took up space, yah.
Catherine: We – they had like these Zumba dancers, and we were like, “who cares”. We were dancing really hard ‘cause we just didn’t care. The funny thing though is that the principal comes up to me in the middle of it with this other queer mother – comes up to me and she’s like “I just wanted to introduce you to – whatever her name is - Beth, because she’s also a lesbian and I thought that you should, you know because you’re – you know”. And then left with her arms up like this. Like as if like, “I’ve done my job.”
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Catherine: I am appalled that someone of that stature who has that much power over children does not leverage her privilege in order to make sure that kids are better equipped to be around LGBTQ folks.