Identifying as queer was a breakthrough for me understanding the power of being different. While I’ve always experienced feeling different than my peers, I didn’t always know what to do with that feeling outside of standing in that truth. But being queer was radical for my thinking because part of the beauty of being queer is that all of the gender categories that people assume are in sync (sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, etc) simply aren’t. Instead, I got to *choose* how I wanted to be.