wander // doe<p>As queers and exiles of all kinds, remember that it's up to us to preserve the memory our love and living practices.</p><p>Many of us had no practices instilled in us by any queers in our lives, since many of us grew up in an era without queer elders, without a history being communicated by anyone trusted in our lives. Instead, many of us were struggling alone against (in America at least) the heavily Christian-coded practices of capitalist, consumerist hegemony.</p><p>We had to develop our own practices. <br>To keep ourselves and each other safer. <br>To accept and express ourselves.<br>To develop community, and love.</p><p>It's up to us to protect the memory of these practices, their living history. We cannot expect our memory to be kept by the textbooks of machine that exists to Eat Worlds, to alienate peoples - to produce workers.</p><p>We keep the memory of our love, our life, alive. We have to.</p><p>And we have the power to do more than those that came before us, so that those after us can walk with our knowledge, our failures. </p><p>Celebrate around shrines of your love. Let them burn as bright as your heart.</p><p>Build temples of rest for exiles. Let them be sanctuaries of self-acceptance as endless becomings.</p><p><a href="https://exile.town/tags/WanderingTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WanderingTheory</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/DeerTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeerTheory</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/QueerResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerResistance</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/QueerCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/Exile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exile</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/Becomings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Becomings</span></a> <a href="https://exile.town/tags/Worldeater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Worldeater</span></a></p>