OUR_STORY
Storytelling is one of the oldest and most accessible tools used to share culture and experiences over generations.
But telling our own stories, and sharing our own experiences in our own words, is also a means of empowerment and self-affirmation – especially when our voices have been marginalized for as long as we can remember.
OUR_STORY aims to gather queer narratives from all around the world, seeing that freedom of expression for people that don’t conform to the majority’s gender norms is still relatively or completely absent in some parts of our planet and underrepresented everywhere.
OUR_STORY
– submissions
WHEN OUR MOVEMENT BECAME THEIR CAUSE
TEXT BY: Nikola Italo // Argentina
The Pool
TEXT BY: Anna Favero // Italy/Germany || ILLUSTRATION BY: Verena Spilker // Germany
To the girl who made me realise that my being straight was a phase!
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA
A Bed Of Stones
TEXT BY: Chroma Curious // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany
20th Century Girl
TEXT BY: Shawna Virago // USA || ILLUSTRATION BY: Dixie Turner // UK/Germany
Death on the Beach
TEXT BY: Michael Ampersant // Netherlands || ILLUSTRATION BY: Heather Sinclair // Germany
Travelogue – SAFE project
TEXT AND ILLUSTRATION BY: Julia Lama // Spain
The Journey across Southern Island
TEXT BY: Alexander Opicho // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Beldan Selzen // Amsterdam/New York
Orphan
TEXT BY: V. P. Gangadharan // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Alann De Vuyst // Belgium
Send me postcards and books
TEXT BY: Sneha Rooh // India || ILLUSTRATION BY: Falco Verholen // Netherlands
Your clothes for swapping
And all the slicing words that repeat
Call Me A Boy – My journey into music and manhood
TEXT BY: Faris Saad // Malaysia || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany
Uncle Joe
video by:Zhen Yee Khor // Malaysia
