"There are so many roots to the tree of anger
that sometimes the branches shatter
before they bear."
--- Audre Lorde, "Who Said It Was Simple"
Part One Roaming
How does one define “pride”? Is pride a geographical concept, or a psychological one? What encapsulates queerness? Is it possible to condense queerness into one word?
Humans of Pride differs from established chapters of Humans Of in precisely its ambiguity. Pride sprawls, all giddy and slippery, dyed the colors of an emergency. A sliver of colors that belies the monochromatic tragedies of skidded time, rippling in the plasma of the past. It is haphazard, it morphs, it escapes and undoes between the waves: the semiotic and the symbolic, the genotext and the phenotext, the fabula and the syuzhet.
As chroniclers of queer life, we try our best to capture its echo, the dawn-skinned aftermath of its retreat, the sand stewing in the stone-still waves. Our misson is not to pin it down, net it, squeezing out dead, stomached words. We follow the trail of the blaze, porous against its colors, letting the light stitch in our hands.
In our presentation of queer life – an indefinable parameter in itself – we disrupt linearity, capturing the interrupted. And so we reject the monologic, the simplicity of a single medium. Queer stories are multidimensional: they can be heard, touched, and breathed.
我们如何定义“骄傲”？“骄傲”是地理的，心理的，是外在还是内在空间？“酷儿”这个词能否被文字概括、包裹、凝结？我们是否能将“酷儿”身份用一个字词囊括？
不同于《人在》系列的其他篇章，《人在骄傲》是模糊的。它在边际蔓延，在有与无之间的负空间游走，在内与外之间的多孔边缘渗透、穿梭。它是语义与象征；意识与潜意识；固体与流动；主体与客体。它是刀刃上的单色调，时间的悲剧穿过滑动的棱镜，象征过去的浆流闪烁着。
作为酷儿故事的纪事者，我们捕捉它的回声，撤退后的黎明与血光，石头般的海浪中沸腾的沙子。我们不会将它钉住，网住，从胃里挤出死气沉沉的话语。我们沿着火焰的痕迹，让紫色的光在我们手中染色、缝合。
酷儿身份本身就是不可定义的参数。在我们对酷儿故事的呈现中，我们打破线性与单调叙事，捕捉被打断的碎片。我们聆听，触碰，呼吸。
Part Two Discovering
Our future stories will be published on the official Humans Of website and our WeChat public account.
If you want to join us as a chronicler or submit your pieces, do not hesitate to get in touch via email: wu.ariel@outlook.com. You can also reach us by via adding Ariel on WeChat: achillesshield.
Remember, pride resists anchoring - we welcome all forms of writing, creative or journalistic, atrophied or whole.
We look forward to hearing from you.
我们今后的故事将发布在人在的官方网站和我们的微信公众号上。如果你想要加入我们，成为酷儿故事的记录者，或提交你的作品，请邮件联系wu.ariel@outlook.com，或者微信联系Ariel：achilleshield。
如果你不确定你的作品是否符合标准，请不要犹豫——我们欢迎所有形式的写作。
我们期待你的回音。