If you had to choose a physical item that represents what self-love means to you, what would it be? HBO’s Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer picked a painting she made during quarantine while listening to one of her favorite trans musicians, Anohni. Starting today, you can actually buy her painting and dozens of other celebrities’ things in an auction called “I love me.”
Presented by the auction and retail facilitator Willbees and co-organized with actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez, “I love me” benefits G.L.I.T.S, a grassroots organization that offers housing and health services to people in the LGBTQ+ community. The auction also celebrates self-love as crucial for the well-being of queer communities, and each contributor shared personal statements on what that means to them. “Self-love means perceiving and treating myself for what I am. When I let myself exist without projecting, without walls upland without a second thought, I think I am exhibiting self-love,” Schafer said. Telfar Clemens added that “self-love means loving yourself as much as you love others, but you’re first.”
