Profile: Er-Bear

Pale-skinned person with medium-length curly blonde hair and subtle makeup, wearing glasses and a lavender shirt, smiling at the camera with her head tilted to one side.

You can call me… Erin if you don’t know me that well. But I really like it when people call me Er-Bear.

I identify as… a bigender MTF butch dyke. A boi. A grrrl. I dress vaguely femme-dykey and act vaguely butch, but I’ll often mix that up and see myself as a genderqueer boi.

Oh, and a steampunky nerd.

As far as third-person pronouns go, … Female is what I ask for because that’s what I like most of the time. When I’m trying to show my queer side, though, I love gender neutral pronouns of all types except “it.”

I’m attracted to… Women of all shapes and gender histories. Genderqueers who have enough of a feminine side for me to latch on to. Cuddly people who respect my identity.

When people talk about me, I want them to… tremble with despair. I mean, be respectful of my identity and treat me as a person.

I want people to understand… it’s not our parts that make us who they are. Those are just for fun.

About Er-Bear
Er-Bear is a student from upstate NY who likes computers, bunnies, rainbows, and the tears of rude people. She’s a Wiccan and a radical feminist, and zie hopes to become a women’s studies professor or a lawyer someday.

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Posted by on July 6th, 2011 at 08:00 am

Category: profiles 5 comments »

5 Responses to “Profile: Er-Bear”

  1. Anonymous

    It is interesting how we use some of the same words to describe ourselves except I am FTM. That is what I like about words like boi and genderqueer is that anyone can use them to describe themselves no matter where they started from or what their journey is.

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  2. XylophoneGender

    bunnies! rainbows!

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  3. Simim

    I, too, want people to tremble with despair when they talk about me. Muwahahaha!

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  4. dz

    You sound delightful :)

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  5. Anonymous

    …there’s something about you that reminds me of Tai from QuestionableContent. I dunno why. Um, yeah.

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