Becoming and Being a BConnected Story
I didn’t know how to communicate to others that it felt natural to be infatuated with anyone who was smart or magical.
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Bleeding While Being Non-Binary
My bleeding and my relationship to it cannot be contained or explained by a heteronormative gender binary.
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I’m My Lesbian Lover’s Exception
I am so lucky to be my lesbian lover’s exception.
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I Am Proud Of My Complexity
I was excommunicated from the church of lesbian purity and found myself identified with an assortment of colorful weirdos who are too varied to fit under any one label.
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Life Is A Process of Becoming, A Combination of States We Have To Go Through.
Growing up in a small, rural town in Colorado during the 80’s and 90’s meant that I had very little real life exposure to anything queer. Despite that, when I reminisce about my youth, I knew I was different by the time I was 13. I suppose I could thank Anne Rice and Anais Nin
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Bconnected Colorado, an Origin Story
When I was trying to come out, not only to myself but my family as well, I was grappling with the data around being bi and what I could see around me in terms of any kind of bi-ness–which was absolutely nothing. At 36 I had never met anyone using the bisexual label. Bisexuals are the largest group under the LGBTQ umbrella….but nearly 70% of us are closeted….What?!….Where are these people and why are we all living like this? Short answer: To save myself.
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FINDING MYSELF IN CHINA
I was immersing myself in a Muslim community for the first time. I was still learning the basics of what it meant to eat Halal and fast during Ramadan. I soon learned what people were saying. Like never before in my life, my gender was a cornerstone in most social interactions.
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