I also wanted to be like my brothers, physically, and yet not physically. So I would constantly - and I think nowadays it's taken for granted that this is what girlfriends do - I would constantly wear their shorts, put on their shirts. That did not seem odd because we were desperately poor for quite a while. It wasn't as if pretty little girlie things were available to me.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIs there a term that one might use rather than say that one is homosexual? Is there a different physical gender and symbolic dimension? I'm thinking of Adrienne Rich's notion of the lesbian spectrum. It's not as if sexual identity is binary: one must be either homo or hetero.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIt's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.
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