Category: Identity

I want to talk about being odd.

Maybe we were called freaks when we were younger. Maybe there’s always been something that’s seemed a little off about us. It’s not just one quirk, but a series of differences that others us. Maybe we flitted...

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That career meme

1. Go to Career Cruising, www.careercruising.com 2. Put in Username: nycareers and Password: landmark. 3. Take their \”Career Matchmaker\” questions. 4. Post the results 5. Put the careers you have seriously...

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weird

After spending nine hours down at the bars, seven of which was working, I realized that I have changed a hell of a lot in the past two years. In terms of personality, I\’m far more out going, for example. In fact, I feel...

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Sugar babies

My experiences with Vlad the Impaler taught me that what I had previously thought was an urban myth — the man who wants to spend his money on frivolous female upkeep (hair, nails, clothing, etc.) — actually does...

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Thank god for drag queens

Summer Camp with Oooh and La La, by Danny Fowler, at DC\’s Crack The thing is, I\’ve spent all my life aspiring to that. Nature gipped me. I was born in a female body, when I should have been born a drag queen. I...

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Secret Agent

It\’s incredible how many people frequently accuse me of leading a double or secret life. Well, perhaps not so incredible. I\’ve always felt rather split between aspects of identity; they simply don\’t mesh,...

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won\’t waste it all on you

From various e-mails to Caesar today: Funny: When I was 20, the therapist I was seeing was trying to talk me through a break-up with a boy. I was very frustrated by the way the boy was behaving, which in my mind, was very...

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Cardboard Box

People talk about comfort zones. Poverty can be a comfort zone; a harsh and lonely one, but a zone where one feels at home, all the same. Poverty is like a cardboard box turned upside down over its inhabitant and his or her...

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Long-term Matter

Most people talk about how they’re so concerned about making a DIFFERENCE, making an IMPACT, even if it’s just on ONE person, they want to MATTER. What they’re really talking about is they want to be important. Reassured that...

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