Miley Cyrus is deep into promoting her new Happy Hippie Foundation, which looks to support homeless and LGBT youth. After releasing several Backyard Sessions videos with Joan Jett, Laura Jane Grace and giving countless interviews about sex and gender, the "Wrecking Ball" singer is looking to clear up one fact about her life: she refuses to be put in a box.

After Cyrus was quoted as saying her relationships haven't all been "straight, heterosexual" ones and implying that she is genderqueer, the 22-year-old told TIME she has nothing to hide, and she owes it all to feminism.

"I'm not hiding my sexuality. For me, I don't want to label myself as anything," Cyrus said. "We love putting people in categories, but what I like sexually isn't going to label me as a person."

Citing her Annie Leibovitz photoshoot from when she was just a teenager, Cyrus said that "our world revolves around sex" and that "there's all this pressure to define yourself sexually, but why?"

In addition to refusing to be put in a sexuality box, Cyrus also admitted that she doesn't need to be in a relationship with a man or woman to feel satisfied in her life, something she can't imagine being the case just a generation ago.

"It has a lot to do with being a feminist, but I'm finally OK with being alone. I think that's something we have to talk about more: that you can be alone," she said. "There are times in my life where I've had boyfriends or girlfriends. And there are times where I just love being with myself and don't want to give part of myself away to someone else... I think that's a new freedom for women, especially. I don't know that my mother would have been able to be 22 and secure in being alone. But my future doesn't rely on having a partner."

Happy Hippie Presents: "Androgynous" feat. Joan Jett & Laura Jane Grace

More #backyardsessions videos coming today!! Huge thank you to Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! and #JoanJett of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts for lending their voices and helping me launch The Happy Hippie Foundation. Find out more at happyhippies.org #HappyHippiePresents #Androgynous #HappyHippie

Posted by Miley Cyrus on Friday, May 8, 2015

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