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Back when I worked an office job and I was writing full time and also had uncontrolled insomnia, I had a playlist on my MP3 player specifically designed to shock me awake at work and get me pumped up.
I don't remember what all was on it, but I know the first song on it was Love/Hate by Liz Phair, which had been on one of my other playlists and I noticed it tended to give me an endorphin rush when it came on.
I don't know what the song means to Liz but to me it resonated because it spoke to how I felt about being dysphoric in a world that expected

1. Everyone to fit two boxes.
2. Me to go in the wrong box.
3. The boxes are supposed to fit together and also basically hate each other.
So it wasn't really a happy song so much as a defiant anthem for my soul.
Love/Hait and Girls' Room (also by Liz Phair) were my accidental trans girl anthems in my 20s.
But then, she had an album called Exile in Guyville... how could I not identify?
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