06/06/2026
🩷 Identity’s a spectrum. Love’s a switch.
❤️ Happy Pride Month to the highly visible, the erased, and everyone in between.
🧡 The bigots and hypocrites of our day have made our trans siblings the scapegoats of so many imagined issues and the distraction from so many problems they themselves created.
💛 This is nothing new. They’re using a crusty, dusty old history book as their playbook. Rather than arm themselves with information and communication, they choose misinformation and violence. And let’s be clear: intentional misinformation is a precursor to violence.
💚 We can combat this wave of hatred by drawing from a well of pride that our predecessors continually filled. Listen or lead, but whatever you’re called to do, love.
💙 To our bisexual babes who are too often belittled or doubted by capital G’s, you exist and you matter. You’re on our team and we’re on yours. Your current relationship (or crush) doesn’t define the entirety of your experience.
💜 Nonbinary pals who present femme or masc don’t owe you or our government a PowerPoint presentation about who they are.
🤎 May the only pressure you feel be the pressure to live your life to the fullest. Check on your friends, lean on them when your check engine light is on, support your community, and believe in our collective potential.
🖤 When in the darkness of doubt, flip the switch and exist in the light of love.
📸 Lenise Steadman Photography & Art