Namesake

By katherinehanses

  • Born and given the name Michal

  • Attended School

    During schooling kids often teased and said slurs.

  • Started playing into heteronormative ideas and roles

    Purposefully became more feminine presenting to better fit in

  • Moved to Berkley

    Their first time being in a very LGBT space.

  • Got a boyfriend

    Experimented with him, and felt that everyone's experience of wanting to feel it how he did was the norm

  • Became comfortable with identity as gay

    They tried out the term gay, they had a series of internet girlfriends that didn't fully accept the intersectionality of their identity.

  • Went to college

    First place that was truly accepting

  • Approaching parenthood

    Looking towards their experience with parenthood and how their identity will interact with that