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Coming Out Day 2024 (archived from Facebook)
It's Coming Out Day again, and today marks 8 years since I publicly came out as polyamorous. Many of you didn't know me back then, so I thought it might be nice to talk more about what polyamory is and what it means to me.
At the most basic level, I consider myself polyamorous because I'm capable of being in love with multiple people at the same ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out Day 2023 (archived from Facebook)
It's a tradition of mine to write something each year on Coming Out Day. In the past, I've written about core parts of my identity, in the spirit of "coming out," but I think I've exhausted that topic for now. So I'm going to answer a question that I've been asked quite a few times over the last year: Why did I change careers from software ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out Day 2022 (archived from Facebook)
It's been a tradition of mine to write something every year on Coming Out Day that bares a core part of my identity, and this year is no exception. This post is particularly huge and scary for me to make.
I'm an agnostic atheist.
Some of you are reading this and thinking "What's the big deal?" or "Wait, that was a secret?" My target audience right ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out Day 2021 (archived from Facebook)
On Coming Out Day in 2016, I came out as pansexual and polyamorous. Since then, it's been a little tradition of mine to write something on this day every year. This year, I have something a bit different to share.
I no longer identify as pansexual. After a lot of soul searching, I decided it was more honest to call myself straight (heterosexual). ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out Day 2020 (archived from Facebook)
To all the LGBTQ+ folks out there on Coming Out Day: Whether you're out or not, I support you and wish you a life full of love and peace. To all the allies, thank you for being a source of kindness and acceptance in a world where we can't take that for granted.
And to all of my fellow Americans, REMEMBER TO VOTE!!! It's especially important this ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts after leaving my latest software engineering job
I don't normally share this type of thing, but I'm trying out the practice of sharing both good and bad parts of my life online. I think we are often hurting and just want to talk to a friend who can relate, but if everyone's profile is just a highlight reel, we don't think such a friend exists ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out Day 2019 (archived from Facebook)
It's been 3 years since I came out publicly as pan and poly!
Honestly I think the weirdest thing is that since I continue to pass for hetero, mono, and otherwise "normal," it's hard to feel connected to the LGBTQ community. I've had an easy life, and I can't relate to most of the hardships that others have to face every day.
The thing that stuck ( Read more... ) -
Coming Out (archived from Facebook)
I initially shared this with my Facebook friends and family. I usually delete old Facebook posts, but I can tell that this one touched a lot of people's hearts, so I'm moving it here for posterity.
Dear friends and family,
I've resisted coming out for several years, for two main reasons.
The first reason: I don't think anyone should ever need to ( Read more... ) -
Anti-Lyrics Meme!
For those of you who haven't seen this yet, you upload samples of music that don't contain lyrics, and other people guess what songs they are. Here's the music for anyone who wants to play. (The site only loads partially on my computer, but I'm on a bad connection, so hopefully it will work fine for you. In case it doesn't, you can download the zip ( Read more... ) -
So funny story
Yesterday morning, I was one of the first 3 people to walk in to my Math Models in Biology class, which is team taught by a bio prof and a math prof. The chair-desks were arranged in a big circle, so I picked a seat that was kind of near the door and on a "corner." About one minute later, the bio prof came over and sat at the desk next to me. We ( Read more... )