“How about, because having an identity can be just as powerful as actualizing my fluidity?” “But are you sure you only like boys? Why not keep your options open?” “Because my entire upbringing has told me there was only one way to be. That any other way is wrong. A deviation from their certainty.” “All the more reason to–” “I’m not finished. When I realized how things were, when I said to myself that I am not this thing I’ve been told I have to be, that I am this other thing instead, then Jesus, Ange, the label didn’t feel like a prison, it felt like a whole new freaking map, one that was my
...more
