Family - Blood Orange, Janet Mock

You asked me what family is

And I think of family as community

I think of the spaces where you don’t have to shrink yourself

Where you don’t have to pretend or to perform

You can fully show up and be vulnerable

And in silence, completely empty and

That’s completely enough

To show up, as you are, without judgment, without ridicule

Without fear or violence, or policing, or containment

And you can be there and you’re filled all the way up

We get to choose our families

We are not limited by biology

We get to make ourselves

And we get to make our family