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How a Trans Woman Helped Me Get In Touch with the Feminine
EXPLICIT LYRICS WARNING In the summer of 2000, I was living with my first girlfriend in the small city of Richmond IN. I had just graduated from Earlham College, where we met, a Quaker liberal arts school of 1000 students that was both a place of limitations and, full of possibility. As a school, we prided ourselves on being an open minded and welcoming community, but like everywhere, prejudice finds its way in and establishes a foothold. I had spent my sophomore year writing an editorial column on race relations for the school paper. By my senior year I had been the leader or coleader of almost every student group that represented marginalized communities- BLAC, the Multicultural Alliance, Women of Color and the Womyn's Center. The only group that I belonged to and did not lead at some point was Rainbow Tribe. I had not gotten my footing there and was still discovering what loving women meant to me. I had not fully found my voice but music gave me the words.
By Angelita Hampton5 years ago in Pride
My Pride Playlist throughout Coming Out.
Paradox: I knew it but I also had no idea. You hear the word gay but you’re not sure what it means. All you know are the laughs, snickers, and uncomfortable faces that follow. You try to distance yourself as far from that word as possible. You’re attracted to girls. You know it, you feel it, but you’re thinking of princes. You’ve been told one day you’d find your Prince. And you think that’s reality, the one and only way of reality being. You hear Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. It comforts you. You don’t quite understand why. Yes, it’s a great song, with a great beat. Everyone is dancing. But there’s something more. You feel better in your own skin, you’re not doing anything wrong.
By ABCwritten5 years ago in Pride
Celebrating Pride Month...From the Closet
I discovered I was bisexual in 2013, when I drunkenly attempted to convince a girl on a cruise to come back to my room. My fiancé was sitting next to me, and - needless to say - he had questions. So did I. I’d always held the view that LGBTQIA+ relationships were no different than hetero relationships, and I guess it just took me 19 years to realize that it held true for me personally as well.
By Stephanie Nielsen5 years ago in Pride
Freedom of My Heart
Sometimes in life things get a little shaken up in our lives and things happen that change Us forever. We must remember that we all have stories that make us who we are. The question then there lies…Who Am I? The Journey to self identity is always the most intriguing journey of them all. It’s the discovery of yourself and in my case its a Re-Discovery of myself. I can never forget my first Pride event. It was the most exhilarating feeling I had ever felt.
By Princess Sparkle 5 years ago in Pride
IN MY PRIDE FEELS
This compilation of music pulls from mostly modern hip-hop and rap and a majority BIPOC artists. During the month of pride it’s important to emphasize that pride has been and is dominated, narrative-wise and representatively, by white people. But pride was given to us when activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera -- both trans women of color -- first started the Stonewall riots of 1969.
By River Morel5 years ago in Pride
TOP 10 FOR PRIDE MONTH
Yo yo... can I get a mic check please? 1 , 2...1, 2... Welcome to pride month for all my fabulous members of the LGBTQ community. It's your host here, GAYbriella and for today's pod cast we have a curated collection of the hottest tracks to get you excited to drop it like it's hot or bump and grind till your hearts content!
By The designer hippy 5 years ago in Pride
Cheers to the Truth
When I saw this challenge, I was excited because I love music and felt I could create a great playlist, potentially even win a prize, but I didn’t know that I would in fact win, before I even submitted. Here I am writing with tears down my face because all these anthems I have listened to over the years have empowered me and wrapped me in a hug of acceptance I never knew I needed.
By Cristina Isabel5 years ago in Pride
Lovely Music
Since the age of 7, while in 2nd grade. I began the long journey of trying to understand as to why I had similar feelings to other women as I did towards men. At the age of 13 realized it's because I'm bisexual. During which, I found music that helped me to understand that it was perfectly normal. Also that I'm not alone.
By Ashley Tenold5 years ago in Pride
