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Hi, my name is Crystal. I like feminism, television, the rare instances feminism appears on television and acknowledging the mistakes feminism continues to make in hope to correct them.

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August 6, 2011
in television fanart pushing daisies
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webslinging: — Mike Dialynas 

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— Mike Dialynas 


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August 4, 2011
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Stars — Window Bird

There’s nothing like the feeling of being re-familiarized with a fav track from your late teenage years.  Even if you only twenty-two years old.  It’s just absolute bliss.  It’s the last minute or so.  Just losing yourself in that extended riff.

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July 25, 2011
in life as i know it
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“Coming out” is not an issue I subscribe to.

Lately I have been thinking about a lot of things.  It is something we all do following our birthdays, or it is something I have been lead to believe, and the older I get, the more I think about my sexuality.  It has been surprisingly a topic most blogged about here on this blog.  I figured it is due to this place being more located away from other aspects of my online presence.  But, anyway, I have come to realize I may never have a proper “coming out” session with my friends and family.  It’s just such a cycle where I have to judge the people within my circle and notate if they would be comfortable with me.  For me, to come out means prioritizing their feelings over mines, and I am not interesting in doing that.

I understand why others do so but I gotta do right by me in some regards.

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July 18, 2011
in design
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July 15, 2011
in ladies anna friel
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It would be silly for me to pretend I don’t have the hunger to be a leading lady in the big movies.

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July 15, 2011
in questions and comments queerness
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"However it is one thing to say you are not straight. It is another to label your attraction."

I'd just like to thank you for talking about this, because I feel the same way and it is really nice to know that I'm not alone? I mean, that line is repeated a lot but it's true so.

I think a lot of my reluctance to actually label my sexuality is what comes with it? It means I actually have to deal with all the problems that come with queerness, and coming out, like family, society, religion, relationships, and sex etc. Dealing with all of that in addition to being poc and a girl is, I feel, too much for me at times. If I'm being honest, I don't want to deal with it for a long time yet. And I feel bad about that. So I don't think about it at all.

Umm, anyway, thank you for talking about it.

It does help in a way, at least for me.

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Uh, right.  I am sorry.  Please bear with this response as I am hand-coding it from my iPhone while I am at the courthouse for the next three or four hours, and I am not the most sensible person in the known universe so I might be all over the place.

I agree with you so much on your second paragraph.  I actually touched upon those very sentiments little over a month ago, and it is ridiculous how guilty I feel over them.  For one, I hate the concept of “coming out” because it seems like something you would have to do every time you meet new people.  “Oh, by the way, I am not straight!  Can I actually trust you enough not to be a bigot?”  For two, I do not like talking about my dating life to begin with.  I am an unusual private person in some aspects and it take a lot of time for me to start opening up to me.  I have known people online for three or four years, and they are just learning things about my life that are the most simplest.  So, yeah, I am such a blank canvas on certain aspects.

Then, like you said, there is the addition of being a person of color and a girl that most days I emotionally check out any and all discussions relating to LGBT+ rights.  There’s a certain mantra that goes through my head more than when I talk feminism.  “Quite obvious over half the people running the show are not aware that people of color can also be queer. If they were, they would not be erasing us from the ‘community’ and talking about how much more *ist we are compared to whites so why bother?”  I guess it is a self defeatist attitude but whatevs.

So, yeah, I pretty much do the same thing as Nivi said as a reply.  I just don’t think about it.  Not the most healthiest thing in the world, and I am sure when I have my next breakdown it will be a centerpoint of it all since I am not as great with avoidance as I use to be but, at this time, I do not want to open such baggage.

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July 14, 2011
in personal queerness
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There’s been some hesitation.

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July 12, 2011
in style fashion
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I know—Urban Outfitters.  The home of cultural appropriation and false left-wing politics but I am serenely in love with this dress.  It is so beautiful, and I could easily make it more work appropriate by stealing their idea of pairing it with a blue oxford button-down, though their look involved a light wash denim.  However, never mind that.  It’s $69, yikes!, so it definitely would be an August splurge (if it does not sell out of extra smalls first).

I know—Urban Outfitters.  The home of cultural appropriation and false left-wing politics but I am serenely in love with this dress.  It is so beautiful, and I could easily make it more work appropriate by stealing their idea of pairing it with a blue oxford button-down, though their look involved a light wash denim.  However, never mind that.  It’s $69, yikes!, so it definitely would be an August splurge (if it does not sell out of extra smalls first).

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July 11, 2011
in gents kanye west
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July 11, 2011
in ladies florrie
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