Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Kelly

Welcome to Interviews With My Ex-Girlfriend in which Autostraddle writers get back in touch with their ex-girlfriends to ask them Five Simple Questions:

1. How long did we date?
2. Why did we break up?
3. What did you learn from our relationship?
4. What do you miss most about me?
5. Would you invite me to your wedding (why/why not)?

Kelly and I met in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2008 at some kind of back-to-school barbeque that the LGBTQ student group at Dalhousie University was putting on. We were both Master’s students, although Kelly was a year into hers and I had just moved across the country to start mine. It was my first time living outside the province I grew up in and I had only come out a few years earlier. We both ende...

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Casey

Known in some internet circles as Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, Casey Stepaniuk is a writer, librarian, and new parent. She writes for Book Riot and Autostraddle about queer and/or bookish stuff. Ask her about cats, bisexuality, libraries, queer books, drinking tea, and her baby. Her website is Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. Find her on Twitter, Litsy, Storygraph Goodreads and Instagram.

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