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	<title>Autostraddle &#187; First Person</title>
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		<title>Choose Your Character: I&#039;m Peach, Not Mario</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/choose-your-character-im-peach-not-mario-177082/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/choose-your-character-im-peach-not-mario-177082/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I did extremely well in any video games with dating elements, like Persona 4, but virtual dating and real dating are two very different things. I could master playing as someone else, but as the old cliché of dating advice often goes, I needed to be myself."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-a-letter-to-baby-butches-177411/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-a-letter-to-baby-butches-177411/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[butch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[female masculinity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/identity-theft-prose-on-my-surgery-and-traumas-as-a-trans-intersex-woman-175806/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/identity-theft-prose-on-my-surgery-and-traumas-as-a-trans-intersex-woman-175806/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A. S.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=175806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["It's unfortunate, unfair and illogical that intersex people get assigned a gender and a sex and are expected to either stick with them or fix someone else's mistake with expensive, risky surgery on their genitals."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Prairie Homo Companion: Wanderlust and Lessons Learned</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-wanderlust-and-lessons-learned-177042/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-wanderlust-and-lessons-learned-177042/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malaika</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Prairie Homo Companion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here's a list of 10 things I've learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#039;m A Trans Woman And I&#039;m Not Interested In Being One of the &quot;Good Ones&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/im-a-trans-woman-and-im-not-interested-in-being-one-of-the-good-ones-172570/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/im-a-trans-woman-and-im-not-interested-in-being-one-of-the-good-ones-172570/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vivian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[transmisogyny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you present in a traditionally feminine way, you're just being a misogynistic parody of a woman, and if you fail to present in a traditionally feminine way, well ha! There's the proof that you're not really a woman right there.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>232</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Had Facial Feminization Surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/i-had-facial-feminization-surgery-176694/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/i-had-facial-feminization-surgery-176694/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I paid a dude to knock me unconscious, peel back my face, and cut out chunks of my skull and jaw."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>70</slash:comments>
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		<title>Transitioning While Genderqueer (Despite the Standards of Care)</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/transitioning-while-genderqueer-despite-the-standards-of-care-175046/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/transitioning-while-genderqueer-despite-the-standards-of-care-175046/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genderqueer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=175046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["It would have been nice to share my entire truth with her, but because of the Standards of Care, I didn't; I feared my story would be seen as diverging from the typical trans* narrative too much."]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/transitioning-while-genderqueer-despite-the-standards-of-care-175046/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>70</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch and Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-and-boundaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-and-boundaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=176293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that time and time again, people act like they can’t make me uncomfortable? That as a butch -- as well as a queer person, a top, someone who likes to flirt and be sexual just like most human beings -- it’s impossible to sexually harass me? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-and-boundaries/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Prairie Homo Companion: To Be More Like A Dog</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-to-be-more-like-a-dog-176015/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-to-be-more-like-a-dog-176015/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malaika</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Prairie Homo Companion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=176015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your dog doesn't care that you're an anti-social drunk bookworm.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-to-be-more-like-a-dog-176015/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch in the Bathroom</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-bathroom175366/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-bathroom175366/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=175366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She looked me up and down, shook her head like she was clearing her ears, and then turned to check the sign on the door. Ah, I thought.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-bathroom175366/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>135</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Prairie Homo Companion: Weather Watch Gender Presentation Fashion Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-weather-watch-gender-presentation-fashion-crisis-175093/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-weather-watch-gender-presentation-fashion-crisis-175093/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malaika</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Prairie Homo Companion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.autostraddle.com/?p=175093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think my gender identity changes with the seasons. In the winter I can channel my great Canadian butch, and in the summer I can femme-it-up.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/a-prairie-homo-companion-weather-watch-gender-presentation-fashion-crisis-175093/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Don&#039;t Have An Expiration Date and Neither Do You: How I Learned to Have the Best Day Ever</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/i-dont-have-an-expiration-date-and-neither-do-you-how-i-learned-to-have-the-best-day-ever-174086/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/i-dont-have-an-expiration-date-and-neither-do-you-how-i-learned-to-have-the-best-day-ever-174086/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I lived my life truly believing I had an expiration date, I made the decision that I deserved one last day that would be the best day of my life. I figured I owed it to myself.]]></description>
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