"I enjoy spending time outside which often inspires what I create and from my experience its an area pretty much dominated by non-queer men, and I've often been in situations where I've felt that my identity as a queer woman is out of place doing something I love. 

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While I've started to find communities of queer people who enjoy the outdoors as much as I do, I feel like there are few people I can learn from who also make space for queerness.  

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For me, I was able to explore my own queerness though media, especially films, TV shows and books that have queer characters, especially queer women.

I was always a big reader and these stories gave me a sense  of escapism from my relatively conservative town, even today where I am surrounded by queer friends I still value queer stories and think their value is widely under rated. 

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I think it is a really good way to normalise queerness in general and provide spaces  for people to explore their gender and sexuality where wider society doesn't. "