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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

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Beth Ditto
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 19
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Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
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Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that even lesbians can have babies these days.
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All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
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I'm a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.
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We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
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I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.
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When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as smell good and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
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I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can.
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I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.
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I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.
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