
Sassify Zine - May 2020
We are more than our trauma. I think it would also be rad for people to see the beauty and the complexity of who we are as a community…’’

RANA FARBA

Fox Fisher


WHAT IS NORMAL?
Words: Jason Kattenhorn
@Sassifyzine
June 2019
Is it social engineering to teach kids about LGBT issues at a young age or do we have a moral duty to teach them about all kinds of people and relationships? Why do people choose to believe that being LGBTQ+ is bad? We are taught as such a young age to believe that heteronormativity is the norm, when in reality queer people exist, have always existed and will continue to exist.
I wish I had been taught about all different kinds of relationships and people when I was younger. Throughout my 20's I was dogged with negative thoughts and used to get annoyed at people who got caught up in pronouns. Call it social engineering, call it a male privilege, but I naturally challenged those that went against the hetero norm. Surely they must be confused, or going through a faze? Because my queerness and gender are invisible, I was often presumed to be straight and CIS- gendered and I was happy to go along with this.
