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My Identity

I navigate my identity like a fluid dance. I embrace a somewhat gender-fluid existence, depending on how others see my gender, though I myself to not identify with any one gender, or even gender in general. I like expressing myself through music, theater characters, and artist personas in what looks to others like a myriad of genders, but to me just feels like: energies. I celebrate the spectrum of expression that comes with being an artist and performer, and gender to me is just another role. For some of us, we choose to play the role we were given at birth, perhaps without question. And some of us feel that we have been cast in the wrong role, and that another destiny calls to us. I believe that only the player should be the one to decide upon their role of destiny.

Labels often feel constricting when placed on me, but can be freeing when self-proclaimed. One label I do associate with is pansexual, as my attraction transcends traditional binary boundaries, drawing me to the essence of a person rather than their gender. However, I feel that love in and of itself is free from labels entirely. It is more like a nebula, or a liquid… not to be contained or compressed, but rather exponentially expressed.

For me, identity isn't a fixed point, but a vibrant tapestry, woven from experiences and connections that defy convention, inviting me to explore and redefine what it means to truly be myself each and every day.

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My Tree pronouns

At times, I prefer the pronouns of something completely neutral in nature, as I often feel more connected with the healing vibration of plant life, rather than the overstimulating busy-body capitalist consumerist vibrations of human existence.

For this reason, my preferred pronouns are tree/trunk, which my close friends honor and use correctly. Here's what it looks like in a sentence: "Justine likes slow mornings ~ tree likes to sip trunk's tea, look out the window, and journal about trunk's thoughts until tree has cleared trunk's mind."

As somewhat of a gender anarchist, I believe that gender doesn’t define a person, and is merely an imposed construct and a way of boxing people in. My birth gender has only ever caused oppression, unfair expectations, emotional pain, judgement, and fear in my life. I prefer to exist without it. Or at the very least, redefine what it means for me.

RuPaul said it best: "We're born naked, and the rest is drag." ~ RuPaul

So if you want to be a tree, be a tree!

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Label Poem

I identify as an artist. As a healer. As a person. As a partner.
I identify as an ocean singer. A tree hugger. An earth listener.
A good friend. A silly sibling. An extrovert child. An introvert adult.
A high-sensitive asthmatic with auto-immune issues who still wants to sing, despite having to breathe twice as hard, with the kind of asthma that doctors say:
    "will never go away".
A dancer with naturally torqued bones. With a skeleton for ballet, a body for performance art, and a long history of knee injuries that doctors say: 
    "were bound to happen".
A songwriter. A poet. A playwright. A novelist. A blogger. A journalist.
An avid notetaker with a storage unit full of journals from 25 years of writing.
An actor, or actress, or actey... depending on the day.
I identify as a vortex of gender fluid, non-binary, multi-binary, gender anarchy.
I identify as pansexual. But I mostly, I identify as: in-love.

I am love. I am love. I am love!

  People call me "her" and "she" 
  It mostly doesn't bother me...
  But I feel more like "they" or "thee" 
  With an air of royalty 
  And even more so, like a tree! 
  Some call it gender anarchy. 
  But I just call it: being me.
       I just call it being me :)