Family (feat. Janet Mock)

You asked me what family is and I think of family as community

I think of the spaces where you don't have to shrink yourself

Where you don't have to pretend or to perform

You can fully show up and be vulnerable

And in silence, completely empty and that's completely enough

You show up as you are, without judgement, without ridicule

Without fear of violence, or policing, or containment

And you can be there and you're filled all the way up

So we get to choose our families, we are not limited by biology

We get to make ourselves and we get to make our families