🌈 #PrideOnThePage: A 30-day creative challenge (runs June 1-30)

It is very simple. You don’t need to register or anything. Just check my Substack Notes feed each day from May 1-15 for the question, and then write your response. You can write anything - short, long, a poem etc. - and include an image if you like. You are welcome to reply in the comments of my Note, or on this post if you like, but the idea of this challenge is to help YOUR people get to know you better so you might prefer to create your own Note or Post. (If you do that please do tag me so I can see it - I will be sharing as many as I can!)

If you feel moved to share what you’ve created, please use the hashtag #PrideOnThePage so others can find your work—and if you tag me, I’ll see it and share as many responses as I can. I’d love to witness what you’ve written into the world.

https://wlplookout2create.substack.com/t/prideonthepage

PrideOnThePage

🌈 #PrideOnThePage: A 30-day creative challenge (runs June 1-30)

Join my fun & free 30-day Pride Month journey to explore voice, identity, and belonging—together. 🏳️‍🌈

Runs June 1–30, 2025 on Substack Notes and here

Come write. Come wonder. Come witness.

Pride is more than celebration.
It’s memory. It’s imagination. It’s dialogue.
It is language shaped by resistance, lit by joy, rooted in transformation.

#PrideOnThePage is a 30-day writing journey into identity, connection, courage, and becoming. It offers a path not toward answers, but toward deeper seeing—of yourself, of each other, of the spaces between.

This space isn’t defined by who you are, but by how you arrive.

Bring your questions. Bring your care. Bring your willingness to listen inward and outward. Curiosity is the beginning of understanding—and understanding is the beginning of change.

This isn’t about writing what you already know.
It’s about discovering what your voice holds when you let it unfold.
It’s about practicing presence across difference—with compassion, with attention, with the courage to be reshaped.

🧭 The Journey

The challenge unfolds across five parts, each centered on a stage in the arc of queer voice and self-making. Each part will receive its own essay, setting the tone for the seven days that follow.

🪨 Part One: Rooted

Foundations of Self
We begin at the beginning—with names, origins, first mirrors, and the quiet truths we’ve always carried. This week invites you to write from the soil of your becoming.

🔥 Part Two: Resistance

Power, Protest, and Survival
The second week holds defiance, clarity, reclamation. These prompts ask you to speak from the burn and the boundary—from what you’ve protected and what you’ve risen through.

💗 Part Three: Love

Connection, Intimacy, and Chosen Family
Week three turns toward relationship—kin, touch, devotion, tenderness. This is a space to explore how we are held, and how we hold others in return.

🌈 Part Four: Becoming

Joy, Vision, and Liberation
These prompts center your radiance. Not as decoration, but as declaration. What are you growing into? What freedom calls to you from the other side of survival?

🏡 Final Days: Reflection and Celebration

Crown + Home
We close with return—with naming and arrival. The last two prompts ask: What do you now know? And where do you belong?

✍️ How it works

There will be one essay per week in which I reveal the new prompt daily. The Essays follow the journey. Additionally I will share each prompt daily through Substack Notes.

Each day from June 1–30, I’ll post:

Follow the prompts on Substack Notes daily, or move in your own rhythm. Share what you create—or don’t. All ways of showing up are welcome.

This creative challenge remains open way beyond June 1-30. Whether you move daily, weekly, or whenever space opens up for you, it’s yours to explore in your own time.

And please, don't stress yourself. Sometimes a word, a sentence, a short note is already your answer. You can always return and add to it.

✨ What becomes of it

By the end of June, you may hold:

You might gather what you’ve written and shape it into:

Or maybe you keep it private. Whole. Undisturbed. That’s writing too.

What matters is that you showed up.
What matters is that you wrote.

✨ Why This Matters

Writing opens a door.
Not just to the page, but to each other.

This challenge is about what happens when we meet with curiosity instead of certainty.
When we ask instead of assume.
When we explore the space between what we’ve been told and what we’ve begun to know.

You don’t need credentials. You don’t need a label. You don’t need to be sure.
You just need to begin.

So bring your voice.
Bring your questions.
Bring your presence.

Let’s put pride on the page—together.

With care,
Jay 🏳️‍🌈✍️