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I asked a friend at work to teach me about makeup.

I always associated makeup with tools of cis femme oppression (for me) but my friend is also autistic and nonbinary and she told me she performs femininity as drag, through extreme makeup. I liked the idea of that, and of learning something I don’t know how to do.

I don’t have a compelling reason for doing all of this but I’m tired of letting my utter and debilitating fear of very basic things—hair cuts, clothes and makeup—continue to scare me