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[drawdownbooks]

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[xsisterhoodx]

Straight Edge Interview Project- katie; 32; brooklyn, nyc; she/her

[straight edge is ] no drinking, no drugs, no smoking, no pot. i'm trying to live with less black & white in my life, though, so if anyone has come up with a less strict vision of edge then i would love to hear it. ever since claiming edge as a teenager i've felt like an outlier in the scene. i'm only now starting to meet more edge women and other folks who don't fit the typical masculine hardcore image.  i'm the kind of straight edge who claimed when she was a teenager, so i often have to explain to people that i'm not ~sober because i never did drink or do any drugs in the first place. i also have a lot of pot-smoking friends and they're always surprised that i liked them in the first place. just cuz i make a choice for my own life doesn't mean i expect everyone else to fall in line just the same! i'm an only child who was raised by a single mother who dealt with a bad alcohol addiction. i knew that i never wanted to drink or smoke, but frankly when i was a teen i was intrigued by drugs like ecstasy and mushrooms. luckily, i lived in a small town at the time and never met any people in that realm of the drug scene. when i started going to shows there was this Cool Kid™ who was edge so i read into that and decided it was something i wanted for myself (ironically, this militant straight edge teenager who also turned out to be a classmate of mine died a few months after high school graduation of a heroin overdose). then once i found and claimed edge it stuck and became a habit and now it's something i don't even really think about. i build my life around relationships and communities. i enjoy bringing new people into my life and maintaining connections with those who have been around a while. i'm particularly active as a cyclist and ride organizer. i love attending kinky play parties when it's safe to gather indoors. i'm also. burgeoning coin collector and numismatist. i have a cat who's four and a pup who's two and they have been my biggest lifeboats in the sea of this literally depressing pandemic. i've been a barista for a few years now and my most grandiose current goal is to open a brick & mortar coffee house. oh and i'm also a veteran lol. really i just wish there were more queer women in the edge scene, or at least i wish i could find them! being a woman in a male-dominated space is hard enough, add to that being a queer woman in a straight woman dominant minority and i feel doubly on the outskirts.   Read the full interview here: https://xsisterhoodx.com/straight-edge-interview-project-katie-32-brooklyn-nyc-she-her/ email kelly@xsisterhoodx.com if you’d like to do the interview too