ABSTRACT
The author came out as a feminist and a lesbian when she was 22 years old. She was just starting her master’s degree in student affairs and had recently moved faraway from both her undergraduate institution and the town where she grew up. No one knew the author and it was finally safe to come out. She cannot pinpoint when the two, life and work, became so intertwined. The author's career in student affairs certainly nurtured her desire to learn all about her own identities and their relationship to structures of societal inequality. Somewhere along her trajectory, the author decided her professional focus had to shift away from the broader residence education, new student orientation, and student leadership programming agenda of her early career. As a teacher/facilitator, the author is responsible for training undergraduates to co-lead the dialogue efforts.
