ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼
@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space
Soft-inked greetings from ThePurpleOctopus 🐙 Queer, non-binary, trans, pan, polyam and many-armed, and thinking in several directions at once. I like curiosity, kindness, politics with teeth, art with feelings, and science done properly. I like languages, cats, cows, trains, and the Oxford comma. I'm a Translator and Teacher by trade, a Traveller by desire. Here to listen, to learn, to tangle gently, and to leave the tide a little warmer than I found it. [Berlin/Amsterdam]
lgbtqia.space
When I was six, we had a costume festival at school. I somehow convinced my parents to let me go as a girl (I was AMAB).
People kept asking, "Who are you?" and "Why aren't you wearing a costume?"
I wasn't confused in the slightest. I was exactly who I wanted to be.
It's funny how a tiny childhood memory can spend decades quietly explaining itself. 🌸
(I do have a photo of me that day. Precious. But not for the public, of course :) )
#TransJoy #LGBTQIA #ChildhoodMemories