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	<title>Autostraddle &#187; personal essay</title>
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		<title>Feeling Dandy About Being Dapper</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/dapper-response-179240/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/dapper-response-179240/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dapperq</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion/Style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female masculinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herstory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I shouldn’t have to “reclaim” my dapper style. It was all of ours to begin with." Two essays on dapper from Anita Dolce Vita and Blakeley Calhoun.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>73</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch in the Airport</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-airport-178616/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-in-the-airport-178616/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butch please]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genderqueer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I am proud as a stone of my genderqueer identity. But sometimes I miss womanhood with a fierce hot ache that feels an awful lot like missing my mother, or my grandmother, or my ability to sit at their table for family meals. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>73</slash:comments>
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		<title>10 Writers of Personal Essays For Your Heart and Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/10-writers-of-personal-essays-for-your-heart-and-brain-177301/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/10-writers-of-personal-essays-for-your-heart-and-brain-177301/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a-camp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a-camp may 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camp autostraddle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[read a f-cking book]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["It can be hard to even get started, because the best way to learn how to write is to read, and by definition your choices are pretty limited when it comes to personal writing. But hey, there's still been some amazing personal writing whose authors have deemed it fit for public consumption"]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</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>
		<category><![CDATA[intersex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans*scribe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transgender]]></category>

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		<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>39</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>
		<category><![CDATA[regular]]></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>Kate&#039;s College Lesbianage: Under The Full Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/kates-college-lesbianage-under-the-full-moon-175402/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/kates-college-lesbianage-under-the-full-moon-175402/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 23:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college lesbianage class of 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian college life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Relief, gratitude and staying out after everyone else has gone inside.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>This Letter Crystal Sent Me About Meeting Tegan and Sara</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/this-letter-crystal-sent-me-about-meeting-tegan-and-sara-175799/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/this-letter-crystal-sent-me-about-meeting-tegan-and-sara-175799/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["personality cult"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["All I really wanted to do was shake the Tegan and Sara's hands. That'd be enough. Unfortunately, it'd also only take 10 seconds. I'd have at least 80 seconds left to fill."]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.autostraddle.com/this-letter-crystal-sent-me-about-meeting-tegan-and-sara-175799/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nita&#039;s College Lesbianage: Nothing Special</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/nita-college-lesbianage-nothing-special-175150/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/nita-college-lesbianage-nothing-special-175150/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 21:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nita</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college lesbianage class of 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian college life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["I'm Nita, and I don't know what I'm doing with my life"]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kelsey&#039;s College Lesbianage: Queer Talk On Being Straight At Bryn Mawr</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/lesbianage-kelsey-173935/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/lesbianage-kelsey-173935/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelsey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college lesbianage class of 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesbian college life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bryn Mawr's pocket of queer sunshine doesn't rain on anybody's hetero parade. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</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>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>114</slash:comments>
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		<title>Butch Please: Butch With A Side Of Misogyny</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-with-a-side-of-misogyny-174442/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/butch-please-butch-with-a-side-of-misogyny-174442/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butch please]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's easy for us to say that we don't participate in the patriarchy because we are women, or because we have been women, that we have known what it's like to be objectified, oppressed, fetishized. The thing is that we queers can perpetuate rape culture just as much as the next frat boy..."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>198</slash:comments>
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		<title>Freezing My Assets: On Transitioning and Wanting To Be A Mom One Day Too</title>
		<link>http://www.autostraddle.com/meditations-in-the-ice-cream-aisle-on-transition-and-having-children-160248/</link>
		<comments>http://www.autostraddle.com/meditations-in-the-ice-cream-aisle-on-transition-and-having-children-160248/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhiannon Catherwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first person]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans*scribe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["He was about to break the news that I would never have a child of my own, and nothing else had ever made it so clear that I wanted one. I really, really wanted one."]]></description>
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