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Identity: Race, Sex, and Orientation
A place to be open about who I am and where I'm coming from.
White -- U.S. version: This puts me in a 'whitestream' version of U.S. culture.
I believe in and benefit from the existence of 'White Privilege,' think that 'White Guilt' is a B.S. concept pushed forward by while people who don't want to acknowledge aforementioned privilege. And I much prefer 'responsibility' when dealing with White Privilege than White Guilt. In short, I attempt to be anti-racist.
As far as my national and cultural origins go, I could identify as English-American. My mother, Nan, aunt, and uncle moved to the United States in the early 1970s. As the rest of my cultural or "biological" ethnicity is unclear, I cleave to the understanding of being English-American, and trying to understand how that influenced my experiences.
Female -- Cisgendered: Female bodied, female brained.
I find more and more that I cleave to my female gender identity, in a way I don't my sexual orientation. I love being a woman, I love being feminine in a way that is natural to me, and were I to be put into a male body, at the very least I would consider transitioning to a female body rather than live as a male. Because that's really who I am, no matter that I never wear dresses.
And I guess, I'm a feminist. I believe in equality for women, and more than that, that there should be equal value placed on femininity and female perspectives than masculinity and male perspectives. This though, does not have intellectual grounding from an outside source.
Heterosexual -- (?) : More by default, than anything else.
I think over the course of my life, I wondered if I'm Asexual, Bisexual, Lesbian, Pansexual, or Heterosexual. At this point het by default seems to be the correct label. I have only dated men, I am engaged to a man (well mostly-male identified man), and the partner-sex acts I enjoy, as well as my deep lizard-brained fetishes, are traditionally (though not necessarily) performed with a male-bodied partner. As far as actual attraction goes, I have things that connect me to people, but they're not really gendered traits, and they're not necessarily sexual either.
Heterosexuality thus becomes something that I'm assumed to be until evidence is presented otherwise. Since I have no "bi-cred" or "pan-cred" to speak of, and thus would risk having a self-identification of bisexual or pansexual called into question. If my sexual orientation is going to be called out, I'd rather it be heterosexuality called into question, rather than bisexuality or pansexuality.
White -- U.S. version: This puts me in a 'whitestream' version of U.S. culture.
I believe in and benefit from the existence of 'White Privilege,' think that 'White Guilt' is a B.S. concept pushed forward by while people who don't want to acknowledge aforementioned privilege. And I much prefer 'responsibility' when dealing with White Privilege than White Guilt. In short, I attempt to be anti-racist.
As far as my national and cultural origins go, I could identify as English-American. My mother, Nan, aunt, and uncle moved to the United States in the early 1970s. As the rest of my cultural or "biological" ethnicity is unclear, I cleave to the understanding of being English-American, and trying to understand how that influenced my experiences.
Female -- Cisgendered: Female bodied, female brained.
I find more and more that I cleave to my female gender identity, in a way I don't my sexual orientation. I love being a woman, I love being feminine in a way that is natural to me, and were I to be put into a male body, at the very least I would consider transitioning to a female body rather than live as a male. Because that's really who I am, no matter that I never wear dresses.
And I guess, I'm a feminist. I believe in equality for women, and more than that, that there should be equal value placed on femininity and female perspectives than masculinity and male perspectives. This though, does not have intellectual grounding from an outside source.
Heterosexual -- (?) : More by default, than anything else.
I think over the course of my life, I wondered if I'm Asexual, Bisexual, Lesbian, Pansexual, or Heterosexual. At this point het by default seems to be the correct label. I have only dated men, I am engaged to a man (well mostly-male identified man), and the partner-sex acts I enjoy, as well as my deep lizard-brained fetishes, are traditionally (though not necessarily) performed with a male-bodied partner. As far as actual attraction goes, I have things that connect me to people, but they're not really gendered traits, and they're not necessarily sexual either.
Heterosexuality thus becomes something that I'm assumed to be until evidence is presented otherwise. Since I have no "bi-cred" or "pan-cred" to speak of, and thus would risk having a self-identification of bisexual or pansexual called into question. If my sexual orientation is going to be called out, I'd rather it be heterosexuality called into question, rather than bisexuality or pansexuality.