Camas Pride 2025

They had me at the free T-shirt! Just kidding. Sorta. I love a nice free T!

I’m really excited. This time last year I was anxiously considering an event photography gig, not entirely sure my #LongCovid body could pull it off. This year, after months of treatments and supplements and verrrrry slow pilates training, and plenty of water, I pulled it off.

Seeing this shirt is a full-circle moment - especially with its assertion to “Live Your Best Life” - advice at least casually known to feel barbed to those of us still masking, still feeling the effects of - and keen to the threat of - Covid. We’re still stinging that society’s put that (expensive!) burden exclusively on the disabled and chronically ill.

To gain a deeper understanding of chronic illness and disability justice, I highly recommend the writings of my friend, This is Rachel. As often happens with her work, she wrote a piece the other day that really hit me. Check out “Illness is metaphor.”

For today, I’ve just got to laugh about the irony of it all. School’s out, my kids and I are healthy enough to enjoy the sun, and I photographed Camas Pride as an Out bi woman. May this be the start of me being able to give something back to my #MillionsMissing peeps who have given so much to us. 🥰

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Charity Feb lives and writes on The Herbalist’s Homestead, a progressive little hobby farm rebelliously tucked into the southwest hills of Camas, Washington, USA. She photographs portraits in her home studio under the business name Portraits of Connection by Charity Feb.