Welcome to Weird Pride Day Five, which happened on 2025-03-04.
Since 2021, the 4th of March has been a day to celebrate all the ways there are to be weird without hurting anyone else.
Humans are a strange bunch, and if we weren’t, we’d be a lot more boring.
Here’s a poem by Claire B:
Weird Pride 2025
Weird stems from freedom,
Freeing the limitations of our being
Opening up possibilities of seeing,
Our world,
From an intersectional lens,
There are no binary ends that could encapsulate the complexity of our existence.
Blur the boundaries
It’s from this perspective that we can begin to tolerate uncertainty.
Weirdness (Pride) is an aspiration, an opportunity to reject conformity,
Not a destination, a confirmation that you have indeed arrived at your designated destination
But a process, that allows us to reset.
Every belief we may have held about being human.
Once an outcast, now Weird Pride unites those of us who were on the periphery
Of groups.
Continuing to question, ponder and forever second guessing,
The notion of truth,
As a shared reality.
Truth is subjective,
A fluid constellation of stars,
That intersect to meet our expectations.
Weird Pride is permission to be free,
A genuine chance to explore what it means to be
the confines and judgemental eyes of others are finally on our periphery.
Every Weird Pride Day, you’re invited to post things online about your weirdness and so on, probably with #WeirdPride in there somewhere – for example, here’s a piece by Sue Davis, and here’s Helen Edgar. Bluesky posts are collected on the Weird Pride feed.
This year there were also two organised online events, as well as an in-person event in Edinburgh: Stimpunks had a packed day on their Discord; and Robin Ince, Josie Long and Kate Fox joined Fergus Murray to talk about coming to terms with our weirdness, the weirdness of other people and indeed the weirdness of the universe at large. The recording is on YouTube:
It wasn’t technically a Weird Pride event, but we have Betsy Selvam‘s blessing to include her highly relevant talk Autism and Gender Identity: A Personal Journey Towards Self-Understanding here, as it fortuitously falls on Weird Pride Day.