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Infamous Member
How Do You Identify?:
Lesbian non-stone femme
Preferred Pronoun?:
She, her
Relationship Status:
Committed to being good to myself
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: West Coast
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Yes, I had mastered the art of non-female/non-male pronouns
I did this for so many years and I did not even risk getting thrown out of the service.
I really hated myself every time that I did it.
As a femme, everyone already assumed that I was straight and I had a ton of excuses as to why I let them believe that.
Underneath it all was probably just as simple as fear of rejection by telling the truth.
I recently posted in the Listening to each other thread that I had another opportunity for a moment of truth and this time, I just told it like it really was/is.
The VP that hired me at my new job asked me during a lunch with the two of us, about dating men. I hesitated just a beat and said, fuck it (to myself): "I don't date men, I date women".
I can't even begin to write how freeing that felt and how glad I am that I did that.
I will never use unambiguous words to describe my sexual orientation or who I date or who I love; ever again.
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~Anya~
Democracy Dies in Darkness
~Washington Post
"...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable."
UN Human Rights commissioner
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