In a world where data is currency, who holds the keys to queer futures?

For generations, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities have been counted wrongly, barely, or not at all. We have been misgendered in censuses, disappeared in health data, and erased from economic research. Data has not been neutral—it has been a weapon. It has justified policies that pathologize, criminalize, and invisibilize our existence.

But what if we seized the means of counting? What if we shattered the systems that surveil us and built databases that set us free?

Right now, queer and trans communities are not waiting for permission. We are reimagining data sovereignty: the radical right to own, define, protect, and weaponize our truths. From trans-led health registries to Indigenous Two-Spirit data collectives, a new wave of data insurgency is rising—refusing extraction, refusing distortion, refusing silence.

Imagine infrastructures where gender is a spectrum, not a checkbox. Where surveys center chosen families over nuclear assumptions. Where public policies are designed by those most impacted—not those most invested in maintaining power.

Data is not neutral. It is an empire of narratives—and it has never been safe for the marginalized.

But when we reclaim the mirror, we do not just demand reflection. We demand revolution.

We track harm—yes. But we also track survival. Kinship. Laughter. Audacity. Legacy.

The future isn't just digital. It is queer, it is quantified, and it is fiercely ours.

This Pride, let us not just ask to be counted—let us build systems that can finally count us in.

Because if they can't count us right, they can't count us out. And if they won't count us at all, we will count ourselves—loud, visible, and unstoppable.