Still A Strange Girl

Orig appeared Battered Suitcase 2011

Note: I was not publicly identifying as non-binary at the time.

[image description: a black and white photo of the band The Gits on stage]

I am a woman in my thirties and like many other women my age, my girlhood was changed; by the magazine Sassy, the discovery of bands like 7 Year Bitch, L7, the Gits and RiotGrrl culture. I have lived in Seattle for most of my life; I saw a lot of this culture up close but rarely personally. I was too…