pink is punk

this blog is pink because it represents a personal journey.

i was taught as a kid that pink was girly.  i was taught that girly was silly and ridiculous.  if you were girly, you were not taken seriously.  therefore i had to hate the color pink in order to be taken seriously.

as a teenager i was really into punk aesthetics and music.  for me, punk has historically been a very masculine thing.  i was surrounded by anti-girl ideologies and hyper-masculine punks who were otherwise insecure about their identities.

now i identify as non-binary and transgender.  my pronouns are they/them.  i'm fortunate to have been able to explore my personal masculinity but i'm sorry it had to be in such a heterosexist way.

going through college and coming into my queerness, i am slowly undoing decades of internalized misogyny and part of that process is recognizing that pink is very much revolutionary (that being said, gendering objects and colors is problematic and outdated.  but for now, i'm interested what this particular color represents).
girls and femininity are revolutionary.  queerness is revolutionary.  the pink triangle was used to label, discriminate against and murder queer jewish folks in death camps during the holocaust.  i want to reclaim pink as a color that represents power, strength and beauty.

i'm 22, i have glitter on my eyes and i am very much in love with the color pink.