Gentlelady

Gentlelady,

    Sometimes, it comes a point in time where a term cannot asset you.  A word cannot define you, and you just have no control over the words the world uses to describe yourself.  This is why I have taken to coin a term that I would like to associate, a word that I can mold into who I am.  Why you ask?  Only because, a person like myself deserves a term to empower them to be who they are! I feel that "Genderqueer" is a term that means so much to me already that it's lost the ability to contain me.  I have the most queer of lifestyles that I have to move up a bracket.  "Gentlelady" is that.  Well at least to myself.  I'm tired to connecting to a word everyone else does.  Only because I am unique as everyone else is.  Words are just words and seemingly knowing this I had to best it.  I'm a go getter!  Sitting idle is not a thing I can stand too.  "Gentlelady" says that and so much more.  It means I am soft hearted and loving.  That I am brave and bold.  I've taken a "Man's" term... and adopted it and fit it to who I am.  I am sweet, soft, bold, brash, radical, and ready for the world. I am steadfast.  Caring.  I am helpful.  I am Tegan.  "Gentlelady" says that... and again. So much more.  I'm a huge geek, I love to talk about anything. I love sports and getting rough. I love to be clean and dirty.  I'm humourous, and sly.  I'm shy and outgoing.  I'm a klutz and made for better days.  I'm going to best the world.  "Gentlelady" says that!

   To move up, and graduate into who you are.  You need an internal revolution.  A movement that you can use as a testament of your legacy.  No one will ever understand what it means to be who you are unless you let them.  How do you make them understand you?  YOU shove it in their face and hold it firm.  You let them know that you exist and you are a person.  With feelings, friends, family, and fears.  You are an obstacle to overcome, a building to be built as a monument to yourself.  You must remember that you are a person.  To be who you are is a movement.  This is something we all must remember.  We are not just a word, we are a person.  Which we have to build into a word.  A word must not conform us.  It must conform to us.  We never let go, and hang tight.  We are strong, we are steadfast, we are relentless, we are people.  "Gentlelady", now that says that.


~Tegan Rowan "Gentlelady" Stryker