It is with inspiration by Audre Lorde’s audacious claim to agency in crafting a narrative that explored the
instability of truth, temporality of memory, and presentations of the self that we take on this project. We are
creating this film as a means to tell a story—our stories. We are queer figures– Sabea and I. We are black
womxn. We both arrived in our different spaces by vocalizing a story that will create space. We are owning these
stories in order to name that we, in fact, are not normal. We are queer. From our family structures, to bodies, to
sexuality, to vernacular, and more. We complicate, undermine, and destabilize the binary. We will be exploring
our understandings of our queer(ly) intersectional subjectivities and relations through the frameworks of
Somerville, Sedgwick, Cohen, and Gandhi. The scenes we will be creating will be under the guidance of the
following lexical plateaus: warmth, survival, complete*, tenderness, girl, and health. We will be incorporating
music and poetry by artists who continue to push against the confines of a theologically binary understanding of
selfhood, along with our own poems and voices. We will expose what we have been learning to protect and
embrace the vulnerabilities of our queerness. In naming the different parts of ourselves we are speaking affective
community into existence and creating an applicable queer politic for ourselves.