Hello, my name is  Lirianni, but my preferred name is Pheonix German. I am the new campus life editor in the NECC Observer. I am also visually impaired and use a white cane when I am not in the Haverhill campus. 

As a visually impaired person, I was told to use my technology all the time, but I really like writing with pen and paper rather than typing. But now that I have the app Goodnotes on my iPad, I can do traditional handwriting with the technology that I have. But I also really like typing a little bit more now. 

I am nonbinary and my pronouns are he/they. I am gender fluid specifically. 

For the people who are unaware of these words, nonbinary means that my gender is not in the binary, there are many different types of nonbinary genders such as gender fluid, agender, and lots more. Gender fluid is when someone experiences two genders that can fluctuate over time. 

For me, being gender fluid is feeling more masculine some days and sometimes being more feminine. I feel more masculine most days, but I rarely feel feminine. What I feel is out of my control when it comes to my gender expression. Like on days when I am at school or just going somewhere, I present more masculine, but on days when I am going out to a professional place or a fancy place, I tend to feel more feminine. There are other times where I feel more feminine, it’s just hard to catch sometimes and sometimes its hard to explain. 

I prefer the pronouns he/they because I don’t really  care which one you use but I just prefer he/he’s/his and they/them/theirs. I also prefer he/they pronouns because, like what I said in the last passage, I present more masculine and rarely present feminine. So I feel like it is more fitting for me to use those pronouns. 

If you are interested, you can search up the meanings of these things in more detail. Its just hard to explain because everyone experiences it differently. 

I am a business major, but I wanted to be a part of the Observer because I love writing and always have loved it since I was little. I also love being a part of the campus life here at Northern Essex and thought it would be a good thing to do what I love to do the most, while keeping people informed on the different events that happen here in the Haverhill campus. 

I have always loved writing. When I was little, I had a notebook where I would write anything I thought of. Even though I had really long paragraphs and would run out of sentences, I still loved writing anything I could. In middle school, I would go in the library and just write in my notebook and some of the books that I’d check out as well. The library was my favorite place to go to when it came to recess. That was until the library was closed for that time. 

I also like reading, studying, and solving math problems and solving educational puzzles and reading textbooks and educational books. 

I wanted to make this my third story because although I might only have one semester left in this college, I wanted to experience writing in journalism and how it works. I am currently taking journalism 1 this semester as it is a required course to be apart of The Observer.

I am very excited to write about the different events here at Northern Essex.

I am very excited to get more involved in some of the events and get to let people who weren’t able to go to the events know what went on and how other people thought about it.