One of Us
It was recently #NationalComingOutDay as well as #WorldMentalHealthDay so here’s a post...
Read MoreMaybe 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...
Read MoreIt\’s impressive at 21, cute at 24, kinda sad and a let down at 27, and completely dull and pathetic at 30. Time to come up with a new plan. \”Dog fostering housewife\” is all I\’ve come up with so far....
Read Moreby Caz | Apr 15, 2008 | Categorize Me, Please, Identity | 0
When most of the people on my flist started reading my journal, I was a fuckup queen. It\’s not that I didn\’t know what to do with my life — the problem was that I had known what I wanted and then started...
Read More1. 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...
Read MoreMy 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...
Read MoreSummer 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...
Read MoreIt\’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,...
Read MoreFrom 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...
Read Moreby Caz | Sep 27, 2006 | Identity, Personal is Political | 0
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...
Read MoreMost 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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