How Do You Self-Identify...and why.

LaneyDoll · 09-27-2011, 01:25 PM

I like labels-they tell the world, in easy terms, how I identify. Labels save me lots and lots of explaining.

I am:
*an extremely girly girly girl-that spider crawling on the floor, someone better kill it/remove it and now!
*an ultra femme-I love my make-up, clothes, heels and sparkly things
*a bratty BDSM bottom-someone could bring out the submissive in me but they haven't yet

But:
I am also:
*a mother-and happily so
*a peacekeeper-I hate when people hurt
*a survivor-I am not a victim, or a statistic.

imperfect_cupcake · 09-27-2011, 01:50 PM

I've ID'd as many many things... an artist, a bisexual, a monkey wrencher, a socialist, a diesel femme, a radical queer, a punk rocker, a student, a primatologist...

on and on.

I am a traveller - not in the traditional sense, I'm not romany et al. I mean, my heritage of my blood family not being tied to a single place (ie, wanting to live some place forever) and that I seem to carry the same itch.

I am a west coastian of north america - North. I do have that enculturation I take with me everywhere and I cherish that way of seeing the world, dispite the ammount of flack I take for it.

I am an adoptee, that is a big part of what has shaped me. It' very much part of my identity as a human social creature

I don't have the words to describe the genders I have. One of them is a woman, so I am one. One of them is femme, so I am one.

My sexuality is dyke/queer, so I am one.

I am also a wife, which I'm proud of because of the long fight behind it.

I am a lover of science, that is my intellectual and hearts calling

I enjoy mythology and philosophy, especially eastern and I love the enactments to bring my body back in line and joined to my mind and my nature. That has been part of my identity for over 20 years.

I am a beloved daughter to people I love very much.

I was a sister, to a brother I deeply loved. even though he isn't here any longer to declare my social bond and role with, I still feel "sister" anyway. it's part of my ID.

None of these take precedent above or beyond the others. They are all part of who I am. All of my previous ID's that I am no longer were very real and deserved their moment. They were not "false" because they did not last forever. I wasn't "really" a lesbian when I was bi. I was bisexual when I was and I respect that part of my life as it's part of what made me who I am now.

PumaJ · 09-27-2011, 09:37 PM

I like reading all of the different ways we ID ourselves as Queers, Lesbians, Dykes, etc...including those of us who are transgender or transexual. No matter the semantics if it, we are all surely being powerful in the way in which we be human.

09-27-2011, 01:25 PM	#1
LaneyDoll Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Girly girl femme Preferred Pronoun?: She; Ma'am; Miss ;) Relationship Status: Pitbull protected. Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 2,204 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,892 Thanked 7,683 Times in 1,607 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I like labels-they tell the world, in easy terms, how I identify. Labels save me lots and lots of explaining. I am: an extremely girly girly girl-that spider crawling on the floor, someone better kill it/remove it and now! an ultra femme-I love my make-up, clothes, heels and sparkly things a bratty BDSM bottom-someone could* bring out the submissive in me but they haven't yet But: I am also: a mother-and happily so a peacekeeper-I hate when people hurt a survivor-I am not a victim, or a statistic. __________________ There are beauties who stop traffic and then there are beauties who grow obsessively in the hearts of the susceptible.*

09-27-2011, 09:37 PM	#3
PumaJ Member How Do You Identify?: High Femme Queer Feminist Preferred Pronoun?: she, her Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Portland Metro, Oregon Posts: 200 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,419 Thanked 500 Times in 147 Posts Rep Power: 1652642	I like reading all of the different ways we ID ourselves as Queers, Lesbians, Dykes, etc...including those of us who are transgender or transexual. No matter the semantics if it, we are all surely being powerful in the way in which we be human. __________________ PumaJ

09-27-2011, 01:50 PM	#2
imperfect_cupcake Senior Member How Do You Identify?: feminine dolly dyke Preferred Pronoun?: Your Grace Relationship Status: I put my own care first Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: In a gauze of mystery Posts: 1,776 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,426 Thanked 9,712 Times in 1,611 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	I've ID'd as many many things... an artist, a bisexual, a monkey wrencher, a socialist, a diesel femme, a radical queer, a punk rocker, a student, a primatologist... on and on. I am a traveller - not in the traditional sense, I'm not romany et al. I mean, my heritage of my blood family not being tied to a single place (ie, wanting to live some place forever) and that I seem to carry the same itch. I am a west coastian of north america - North. I do have that enculturation I take with me everywhere and I cherish that way of seeing the world, dispite the ammount of flack I take for it. I am an adoptee, that is a big part of what has shaped me. It' very much part of my identity as a human social creature I don't have the words to describe the genders I have. One of them is a woman, so I am one. One of them is femme, so I am one. My sexuality is dyke/queer, so I am one. I am also a wife, which I'm proud of because of the long fight behind it. I am a lover of science, that is my intellectual and hearts calling I enjoy mythology and philosophy, especially eastern and I love the enactments to bring my body back in line and joined to my mind and my nature. That has been part of my identity for over 20 years. I am a beloved daughter to people I love very much. I was a sister, to a brother I deeply loved. even though he isn't here any longer to declare my social bond and role with, I still feel "sister" anyway. it's part of my ID. None of these take precedent above or beyond the others. They are all part of who I am. All of my previous ID's that I am no longer were very real and deserved their moment. They were not "false" because they did not last forever. I wasn't "really" a lesbian when I was bi. I was bisexual when I was and I respect that part of my life as it's part of what made me who I am now.