Name’s Vanessa, for the past few years I’ve gone by Ness or Nessa. I just graduated from UTD with my degree in Neuroscience and now I am full of anxiety about the future – my own and the world’s. Lived in this plane for 25 years now and I always wonder if it is worth it – but I persist.

Look at my tinder profile and you will see it all – a black queer anarcho-feminist who is a geek. I constantly struggle with my own gender or sexual identifiers and I feel that is true for all people.

Cause it matters to others I guess, how I identify helps me connect my experience and life and ideology to others around me. It helps me feel less alone but the combination of it all still makes me feel unique – which can be great but feel lonely.