“Where do I belong?” says Rina Sawayama as she opens her song “Chosen Family.” A track about the harsh lived experiences of queer people who fled their dangerous and unaccepting home lives in search for close kin to claim as their tribe. This is an experience that is not exclusive to the LGBTQ+ community. As humans, it’s so normal for us to constantly be on the lookout for other people who look like us, speak our language, understand our lived experiences and find similar joy through the media we intake.
