I’m not normally a person who watches TED talks. I want to be, but the idea of committing myself to something educational when I could be watching videos of dogs is a hard sell. When a Facebook friend posted Ash Beckham’s Owning Your Duality, though, something about it compelled me to watch.

This short 15-minute video managed to ease a tension I thought I’d always carry. The suspicion that I hold several identities within myself has long lingered. Christian, leftist, wife, writer, weight lifter. I’m not singularly any of those, just as I’m not singularly asexual or married to someone who isn’t.

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