00:00Queer is freedom.
00:01Queer is an opportunity to explore other ways of existing
00:07that don't necessarily fit within the norm or within a box.
00:11Hey, my name is Erica.
00:13I'm queer.
00:14My gender identity is femme.
00:16My pronouns are she and they, and I don't have nipples.
00:20I'm not explaining that in between a make-out session.
00:24What being queer means to me?
00:29Expression of my political ideology.
00:32And it's also an easy way for me to respond to people.
00:35So if someone is like, how do you identify your sexuality?
00:40Queer.
00:40How do you identify your politics?
00:43Queer.
00:45With poly, people think, okay,
00:49so you are with your partner now.
00:52Does that mean that you also have another partner?
00:54Does that mean that you're gonna cheat?
00:56Does that mean that you have a lot of sex?
00:58I feel like I'm explaining to other people more than I'm actually explaining to my partners about what poly is.
01:03I teach sex ed to fourth graders.
01:05I taught a gender course, and at the end of the gender course they said,
01:09okay, miss, are you a boy or a girl?
01:12And I said, gender's in your brain.
01:15And they're like, I think she's a boy.
01:16I think she's a girl.
01:17And then one of them was like, no, she's an experience.
01:19That's what she's trying to tell you, experience.
01:22My gender expression is very much black femme.
01:24I don't resist that I like to caretake.
01:27I don't resist that I love to be in Sephora for hours on end.
01:33Don't resist it.
01:34Do you feel a bit like that?
01:37There you go.
01:38Bye now.
01:39Bye now.
01:40Bye, bye.
