So when I created this account, I originally intended to use it as a quieter, semi-private place for self-discovery - especially getting more used to expressing myself emotionally again; with a stretch goal of becoming comfortable with talking about my sexuality in public again, as I once was.

This is a really big thing for me - years of Very Serious And Professional masking for activist purposes has made it more and more difficult for me to express myself as a person, because it's hard to shake the role once you're used to it, and easy to become worried about how it'll affect whether people take your words seriously. My forms of activism *do* often involve talking to non-radical folks, after all.

This has become... increasingly challenging, as Twitter is on fire, everybody is moving here, and many followers on Twitter have started auto-following me here - probably not aware that I may be considerably more personal here. And likely coming from a very different and more 'professional' background.

And that's become a problem. Because I wasn't really done with that process of self-discovery yet, and I'm now becoming less and less comfortable with expressing myself fully, for (mostly irrational) social pressure reasons.

At the same time, I don't want to lock my account, because my activism work *does* continue to be a big part of my life, and for that to work, it needs to be easily accessible and followable.

But compartmentalizing into different accounts *also* sucks, because I am a whole person, and the activist and the personal (*including* the sexual) are inextricably connected to each other, even if it might not be immediately obvious to many people why. I don't really want to separate them out.

So... now what the hell do I do?