With My Fist Held High
Submitted by Serephine Renaud, the model.
“I’d like to officially declare to the world that I am a heterosexual boy who believes with all his heart and soul that a boy has just as much of a right to be pretty as would a girl. My whole life has been one big maze of hatred, repression, and the belief that because my chromosomes have a ‘Y’ that I should act a certain way. Well I made my way through that maze and never once returned to the entrance in defeat. Never go back to the entrance, and when you finally find your way to the center, I encourage you to stand tall with your fist raised high and scream with me, ‘We were ridiculed but resisted. We were beaten but not broken. We are free for now and forever more.’
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Category: faces 15 comments »
June 26th, 2012 at 10:26 am |
you are simply amazing. I am glad u are able to be yourself we simply need more people like you in the world.
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June 26th, 2012 at 10:42 am |
You are wonderful and beautiful!!!
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June 26th, 2012 at 6:55 pm |
Love the ears!
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June 26th, 2012 at 9:43 pm |
Absolutely stunning! The world would be a better place if more people believed as you did.
Thank you.
Yours in Queerness,
Duo Spiritus
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June 27th, 2012 at 4:27 am |
I’m genderqueer and I can only agree with everyone else above and wish I looked that good in a dress :D
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June 27th, 2012 at 8:08 am |
Fantastic!!
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June 27th, 2012 at 9:42 am |
you are such an inspiration! (and purple is totally your color :)
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June 27th, 2012 at 10:33 am |
Wow, you are completely gorgeous!
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June 27th, 2012 at 11:46 am |
rock on!
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July 7th, 2012 at 10:07 pm |
I think you are totally freaking amazing. I love what you wrote about finding your way through the maze, it nearly made me cry. I’m just now starting out on this maze, but when I find my way through it, I’ll be standing there next to you, fist raised in triumph! I can’t begin to tell you how inspiring I find you, really.
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July 12th, 2012 at 9:44 pm |
Awesome! I feel similar, I just lack the confidence.
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July 14th, 2012 at 7:13 pm |
I typed up and printed out your inspirational victory cry and pinned it to my cubicle wall at work. Totally awesome!
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July 19th, 2012 at 4:59 am |
As others have said such an inspiration
Out of all the awesomeness of this comment I love in particular
“a boy has just as much of a right to be pretty as would a girl.”
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“We were ridiculed but resisted. We were beaten but not broken. We are free for now and forever more.”
It has taken ages for me to realise the person I am and be proud of who I am. My teenage years were so confusing and horrible trying to be a stereotypical straight man but now at the age of 21 I can be joyful and live my life to the full as a bisexual with his mix of masculine and feminine. I will never go back; only look forward!!!
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July 19th, 2012 at 6:08 am |
Love it.
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July 20th, 2012 at 5:57 am |
Serephine, you are wonderful. [And I love your name too!]
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