David Bowie and Freaks With Superpowers
Jan. 11th, 2016 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Did you fit in as a kid? I didn't. And when kids would call me He-She and Hideous like they were my name, I would remind myself that people weirder than me were GODDAMN ROCKSTARS. David Bowie's very existence was a balm to my soul before I knew how to articulate any of what that felt like.
David Bowie was so singular and strange and beautiful that they made a movie just for him to be the Goblin King in. His music, his fashion sensibilities, his brave and open sensuality, he was my hero.
He was a gender nonconforming bisexual man in the public eye. He was my hero, gaily defiant and clever and wry. And as I grew as a person, his example grew with me. His kindness, his social awareness, the way he used his artistry to force the world to deal with him as his own thing - he used his weirdness as a superpower until it became one. He was such a rich and complex person that every time I rediscovered him there was always more to learn.
And I do not have that strength or generosity of spirit, but I will always aspire to it because of David Bowie.
Did you fit in as a kid? I didn't. And when kids would call me He-She and Hideous like they were my name, I would remind myself that people weirder than me were GODDAMN ROCKSTARS. David Bowie's very existence was a balm to my soul before I knew how to articulate any of what that felt like.
David Bowie was so singular and strange and beautiful that they made a movie just for him to be the Goblin King in. His music, his fashion sensibilities, his brave and open sensuality, he was my hero.
He was a gender nonconforming bisexual man in the public eye. He was my hero, gaily defiant and clever and wry. And as I grew as a person, his example grew with me. His kindness, his social awareness, the way he used his artistry to force the world to deal with him as his own thing - he used his weirdness as a superpower until it became one. He was such a rich and complex person that every time I rediscovered him there was always more to learn.
And I do not have that strength or generosity of spirit, but I will always aspire to it because of David Bowie.