These terms have been used to describe me. Now I’m trying to understand how this terminology has affected me over the years. Only recently have a noticed how much this affected me, and how I wasn’t really dealing with this idea of feeling alienated by my own race. I found myself alienating, parts of who I was, therefore parts of my identity were lost. I had no idea who I was, therefore, I started constructing my identity from the people around me. This was seen as me trying t

I have recently began to discover my own truth. Who am I? I found myself hiding myself, my figure so that I could get less male attention, especially older men. I found that by doing this I began embodying my masculinity alongside my feminity. I was and still am seen as a same gender loving female, and being gay isn’t a label that I personally identify with. When I read this blogpost about Alicia Keys’ Truth, I found myself Identifying with many of her experiences. Feeling as