To Be Blerd and Queer During Quarantine

Closeup of LaShana Lewis wearing a bandana cloth mask in late April 2020.

I had been following the launch of Crew Dragon ever since I knew that Tesla founder, Elon Musk, created SpaceX to specifically pick up where the space race had left off. Being in St. Louis and volunteering at the local science museum, the St. Louis Science Center — a place I visited almost every month since 10 years of age — I knew that we were smack dab in the center of the fight for the first human on the moon…