My name is Laura Hubbs. I graduated with my class of 12 last May and will be starting at South Dakota Mines and Tech this month studying mechanical engineering.

I am a queer person. My identities include demiromantic*, asexual, and agender, two of which this autocorrect doesn’t believe are words. I believe gender is a construct and that people should dress and use whatever pronouns or gender labels that make them comfortable. I personally enjoy jeans, graphic tee-shirts, the occasional Hawaiian shirt, and she/they pronouns.

My experiences are not very wide as I was homeschooled and did very little outside of once a week classes and church on Sundays. And yet I have a wide set of experiences from my two years of dual-enrolling at a public school and the various trips I have had the chance of taking.

And yet all these ware words that cannot summarize me fully. There are blanks to be filled. Some of these blanks I have not filled myself. And maybe that’s alright. Maybe some holes are meant to be left unfilled.

*this once said aromantic, but my identity has changed