Sometimes, I get laughed at. It's happening a lot, right now. I get laughed at in dance class, especially tap. I get laughed at for having the nerve to call myself a "composer" in a school full of singers. I get laughed at for being older than my peers, for putting on a dress and a wig and doing a queer Christmas play.
Wayne Self is an award-winning writer, composer, and music director with deep spiritual and historical roots in rural Louisiana.