Queerness as Resistance +

"Resilient is a descriptor that relates the survival of our bodies in relation to the passage of time. Persistence is a continuous act of doing and making rather than simply being. Resilience is what allows us to remain in this world; persistence is the pressing idea that this world is bullshit – it’s a rejection of grinding poverty, deadly transmisogyny, the scourge of anti-blackness, the impossibilities of physically navigating this city if you can’t walk, run, and climb. Resilience says we survive these conditions; persistence says we will outlive them."