Dakota talks gender, identity, & expression

Dear friends,

Hey there! If you read last week’s post, welcome back, and if you didn’t, you should – but welcome anyway!!! Last week I ranted for a little bit about why I don’t like when people tell me that “it gets better.” Since then, I’ve been thinking about what I could follow that up with, but thankfully I’ve also been receiving a lot of polite, questioning messages on Tumblr about my identity and how people should respect me – so I thought I would discuss that here, with you all!

First of...