How people see meThis is a sketch I made in Doodlie, one of my other socials, which has daily ideas for sketching and one of them was the idea "draw how others see you" and, being this Pride month, I wanted to re make an old concept of people really look at me whenever I go out to the streets.
While I live in Chile, a developing country in Southamerica, where there has been a lot of progress in terms of human rights and there are laws that help us wueer folks, truth is these are the stares I still get, especially from older people or, also, millenials around my own age. I'm a non binary person, aromantic and asexual, assigned female at birth, not the best looking individual and I'm also fat. I pass as the estereotypical butch lesbian and certainly strangers on the streets don't like my prescence becauyse of these things. Some people say it might be all in my head, but, come on, I'm old enough to tell the difference between serious people minding their own business and people genuinely and without subtlety not liking me, especially when it comes to strangers who all what have seen from me are my looks.
Thankfully, younger generations are doing better and are acting way more welcoming to queer folks like me than mine did. Pride mkonth and positive visibility does matter in the end.Jun 17, 2026
While I live in Chile, a developing country in Southamerica, where there has been a lot of progress in terms of human rights and there are laws that help us wueer folks, truth is these are the stares I still get, especially from older people or, also, millenials around my own age. I'm a non binary person, aromantic and asexual, assigned female at birth, not the best looking individual and I'm also fat. I pass as the estereotypical butch lesbian and certainly strangers on the streets don't like my prescence becauyse of these things. Some people say it might be all in my head, but, come on, I'm old enough to tell the difference between serious people minding their own business and people genuinely and without subtlety not liking me, especially when it comes to strangers who all what have seen from me are my looks.
Thankfully, younger generations are doing better and are acting way more welcoming to queer folks like me than mine did. Pride mkonth and positive visibility does matter in the end.Jun 17, 2026
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#doodliee
#queerphobia
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When I was young my rabbit died. We visited a shop and the seller told me to smile. I wanted to cry didn't even know how to react. My mum saw how close I was to jumping the guy and intervened. Today I just say "mind your own business ". I will not smile for you or anyone. I will not look nice, I will not reduce weight or put on make-up. I don't even know how they look at me. I don't care. Women, men and everyone im between have the right to be themselves.
Though I will glare at idiots. And I will stare back if you stare at me.
Though I will glare at idiots. And I will stare back if you stare at me.
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•This is difficult to bear the looks of other judgmental people, the thing that matters the most is that you stay true to yourself
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•see, this is exactly why queer representation in media matters. People who never saw queer people are much more likely to be lgbtqphobic than people who saw even a BIT of queer representation. This is why I hate the line "representation doesn't matter" because it makes me happy, is the reason im okay with my identity and probably has helped others in the past. (Sorry for bringing random stuff into this I just HAD to lmao)
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