I'd love to become an archivist studying queer ephemera and conducting philosophical research. In two and a half years, I'll have graduated from Flagler College as a junior. The year after graduation may be spent as a gap year, but I doubt that for now. It is more likely that I will go immediately into grad school to study archival and museum science, and I'm hopeful to be able to attend a school in London, England. During that time I would take up whatever work I may, hopefully in a university library or archive. During my remaining time in St. Augustine, I want to try building a life I don't want to run away from. I have always lived in places where I was either too young to engage in counter or subculture spaces, or where nothing along those lines was present. As a vehemetly queer man who has lived as every letter in the acronym LGBTQ, that means I felt I was always lacking community and only being pushed further into the alienation of youth. St. Augustine is a town devoid of any counter-cultural scene, and I want to change that. I have been lucky enough to find a few people like me, aching for a community that embraces liberationist ideologies guided by queer postcolonial ideals. I have gotten resistence from a surplus of Flagler students on my idea of bringing a radical, leftist, and queer group to campus and thus town, which has only made me more determined to ensure it exists. If not for me, then for the other students who may be like me- students who had no choice but to stay in the state of Florida for college, and wound up at FC. I did not feel seen when I first came here, and frankly I still don't. I need to make sure other kids don't come in knowing they're part of a shy, hard to find few. I am currently working on a project to make this collective a reality- a project that includes an online radio station, a hand-coded website, free lectures and roundtables on important BIPOC authors and ideologies, zine workshops, and more. I am incredibly excited to host that collective in the coming months, as teaching has always been a pleasure of mine.
At the moment, I am leading my research in queer theory and studies, particularly in queer spaces and always in queer ephemera. Throughout the next several years I fully intend to keep studying queer and postcolonial theory, as I have very little doubt that queer theory- be it as a lens or a literal queer history- will guide my research and work for the innumerable years to come. Within the next five years, I feel it would be good to complete a novella... I really enjoy writing psychological fiction, and would like to be published at some point.