Tag: Labels
Hand in Your Punch Card
By A. Rutter Though I have identified as bisexual for ten years, I still find myself sitting and wondering if I’m not actually heterosexual after all. I sit and think in my room, or on the train, or in a long shower,...
Read MoreResponses to Your Inappropriate Assumptions about my Sexual Identity
By K. R. Eggler “Lesbian. You must be a lesbian. Are you a lesbian? You have lesbian hair. You have to be a lesbian. No? Oh. Then you must be straight? Even if you have that hair? You should grow your hair out if you ever want...
Read MorePretty and Powerful
By Theresa Tyree People called me a “tomboy” when I was a little girl. I wore the title like a badge of honor. I liked it. It meant I was tough. It meant I was just as good as any boy, that I wasn’t picked last, that I didn’t...
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Some First Steps Are Missteps, Too
By Alissa Morgan I don’t remember the first time I encountered the word bisexual. Certainly, it...
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Claiming My Labels
By Elizabeth M. Mechem When dealing with my ADHD, I find myself encountering many of the same...
Read MoreMy Life, My Labels
By Julie Morgenlender Our world is filled with assumptions about labels. We like to assume that we know what labels others apply to themselves. We all do it to some extent, and it becomes a problem when we insist on it, when we...
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Label me with a B
By Rev. Francesca Bongiorno Fortunato I’ve been calling myself bisexual since I was eleven years...
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Queer: My Non-Label Label
By L.B. Klein Like many folks who navigate the world as a woman, labels have always been assigned...
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Label Drag
By Lila Hartelius The space between feeling and utterance is the chasm we try to weave together...
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The Matter of Labels
By Keira Edwards-Huolohan I started with the label straight. Then, when I found out that you could...
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Four Times Labels Mattered & One Time They Didn’t
By S.H.G. One I meet you through a mutual friend. She’s only in town for a few days so she invites...
Read MoreIdentity & Play: My Life in Labels
By Michele Spring-Moore When I co-founded a social/support group for bisexual women in my Western New York hometown in the late 1980s, the statement I heard most often at meetings was, “I hate labels!” This surprised me, as I’d...
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