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Panzees.

By the heart.

I'm Caitlin Pest.

It's Saturday night. After pre-gaming with your friends, getting ready, doing your eyebrows,

perfecting your outfit. You head out to one of your communities, beloved DIY spaces.

A place that doesn't ask you how old you are. A place that isn't policing your outfit, your gender, your presentation.

A place that isn't relying on you, buying alcohol to have a good time.

Maybe it's an neglected building, given new life, by a group of creative people who want to make a safe place to share art and culture.

More than ever, we need to hold these places dear and take care of them and take care of our community.

On a night like this, you walk in and you hear a shrill, modulated voice reverberating through the room.

And if my rectum's the grave.

You catch a glimpse of a bright green wig, purple eyebrows, luxurious dark brown hair,

peeking out of all the places that hair grows on a body.

A five o'clock shadow of frames, electric colored lips.

And a beauty mark, just like Marilyn Monroe's.

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