By: Cara

In reply to Olivia.

Hooray! I absolutely agree, there’s something about seeing a word over and over in an affirming context (especially when people are using it to identify themselves, and clearly feeling good about it) that makes it sting so much less. And the internet is great for that. I hated a lot of words when I first came out. Now it feels more like I’m exploring a fascinating jungle of identifiers.