I just un-came out to my professors, i.e., I emailed them asking to go back to being called Ellen. In some ways, this "uncoming out" is a lot more liberating than any other coming out.

The text of my email is below the cut.

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So I basically just outed myself (note the difference between that and came out to) my mom as trans... I had forgotten that I was signed onto AIM on my dad's computer as well, and so she saw a bit of Screech's half of a conversation we were having about various things, including the fact that I'm starting to change my name with profs.  And so she ( Read more... )

A lot of people talk about their maternal instinct and how it flares up at certain times. I can relate to that, although mine is not as much maternal as it is domestic ( Read more... )

Why is it that every single time I find an identity that feels like it works for me, it suddenly stops working ( Read more... )

Hello world!

Since I haven't updated in ages, I thought I might do that.  There might be some of you out there who are interested in this, and I haven't talked to some of you in a while, for whatever reason.  This post, by the way, is hopefully the resumption (is that a word?) of me updating my livejournal regularly, like I used to back at
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