“There’s a lot of comfort in knowing that people who aren’t related to you… are choosing you. They want us. It’s a good feeling that way.”
family – people related not by blood, but tied together by something altogether different – who pick each other and the traditions they want to keep.
After Mae’s parents’ recent divorce, they said the family they grew up in doesn’t exist anymore. And, as a nonbinary lesbian, theiralso plays a role. They worry their pronouns wouldn’t be respected or their chosen name wouldn’t be used. Mae says that going home for Christmas would feel like “stepping into shoes that don’t fit.”
Their plans for Christmas this year include cooking, baking, and going to a local church that hosts a full choir Christmas Eve service. They’ll watch movies and craft and knit and eat homemade baked goods. “The main theme of it all is we do what we want,” Mae said. “The whole point of staying here is we don’t do things we feel obligated to do. Instead, we do things we actually want to do.”
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