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Coming out (and out and out)

Minnesota Nice blog post by Debbie Rasmussen, June 13, 2008 - 2:36pm; tagged: butch, coming out, gender identity, genderqueer, listen and love it, masculinity, midwest, podcasts, queer, sexuality, trans identity, transgender, transsexual.

Lately I've been thinking about the process of coming out and identities/shifting, and how for so many of us it's an ongoing/lifetime process. In part because we as individuals change, and/or in part because our environment changes, and/or in part because our identities can't be read on the outside, and/or because some of us feel the most comfortable in those in-between spaces yet sometimes feel compelled to "pick a side" (so to speak/referencing here the dualism so prevalent in mainstream Western culture), because the struggle to have our identities validated (or even finding language to define ourselves and our experiences) simply becomes too much work. But then when we "pick that side," we might eventually feel the weight of that boxed-in identity start to hurt, so we begin the process of coming out again... Or geez, to put it most simply, because things just change... 

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Listen & Love It: The Terrordactyls

Love / Shove blog post by Anna Breshears, March 5, 2008 - 8:45am; tagged: juno, kimya dawson, listen and love it, mold peaches, the terrordactyls.

The Terrordactyls are silly and sweet twosome Michael Cadiz and Tyrel Stendahl (who occasionally team up with The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson).

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