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I know you barely know me, and most days, that’s okay.

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How do you explain something to someone else that you don’t fully understand yourself?

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I have never felt like a woman, but neither have a lot of masculine women who love women. I’ve felt the joy of being called a man, but so have a lot of queer women as well. I have felt the pain of burning up in the Georgian sun because I didn’t want my family to see my breasts and tell me I was becoming a young lady.

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Your confidence skyrockets.

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“Uhm, Gray,” she said, “That doesn’t sound like just friendship.”

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I wasn’t born in the wrong body. I was born, a body. Without my body, I don’t exist. This body isn’t wrong, it’s trans.

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and why it is dangerous to assume otherwise

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Why is the blogging community dominated by an LGBTQIA presence? Simple—it’s better to be a gay blogger. By default, it connects you to thousands of fellow gays who dominate the digital space.

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Let my irreverently queer, patriarchy-bashing, black-lives-adoring art draw their eye and draw their pathetic fear from the hateful shadows of this country.

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I wondered: What if I’m actually NOT queer enough to claim the label?