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How do you know when you’re moving too fast in a new relaysh? Should we even be starting that kindling when there’s still embers from someone else in our hearts?

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Coming out is never a linear process, despite other media narratives suggestive otherwise. Xavier Bettencourt poignantly writes about his journey to self-honesty, authenticity, and honoring his queer inner child.

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Sarah Denise Johnson’s poem is a defiant reclamation of the plural pronoun and celebration of the spectrum of genders that have always been part of humanity.

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We’re almost like a NGO unofficially, like a network in all these cities; we started launching in Hong Kong, Taiwan and now we’re working on developing a presence in New York. So we’re doing more than working on a book project, we’re a community where we publish original content and promote women’s work on our website as well.

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Coming out is never a linear process, despite other media narratives suggestive otherwise. Xavier Bettencourt poignantly writes about his journey to self-honesty, authenticity, and honoring his queer inner child.

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Income inequality and the wage gape has a personal cost that can be oft overlooked. May Koiner, a freelance journalist, writes about the lack of stable wages in the writing industry, the effect it has on her mental health and relationship with her software testing boyfriend.

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They get one day off at work, usually Sundays (although I saw them every day) and since they don’t have money to spend it in restaurants and cafes and they obviously do not want to be (or can’t be) inside their bosses’ houses, they spend their days outside, in makeshift public living rooms.

[Image: Multiple hands form together with a large red heart painted across.]

Sarah Denise Johnson’s poem is a defiant reclamation of the plural pronoun and celebration of the spectrum of genders that have always been part of humanity.

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I heard their words direct at me. When I grasped the sounds, they related precisely what was felt. I allowed their words to be about me, to confront me, and to attack me, and I allowed the utterances to be real.

A touch of your skin,
A coin in hand, you take
My heart from the market.

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How do you know when you’re moving too fast in a new relaysh? Should we even be starting that kindling when there’s still embers from someone else in our hearts?

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New from AK Press, Dena Rod reviews Nora Samaran’s book Turn This World Inside Out filled with much needed suggestions and answers to today’s most pressing questions.

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Six short queeries this week! DWP answers your questions, vague, short and unsure !

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We’re almost like a NGO unofficially, like a network in all these cities; we started launching in Hong Kong, Taiwan and now we’re working on developing a presence in New York. So we’re doing more than working on a book project, we’re a community where we publish original content and promote women’s work on our website as well.

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Robert Wells deftly dissects myths surrounding serosorting, the practice of people using HIV status as criteria selecting sexual partners and romantic relationships. Read more about how you can educate yourself with facts and knowledge regarding this oft misunderstood virus and the people who have it.

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Casey Quinlan interrogates power differences and interviews activists who are building and creating new cultures where consent is emphasized and the police aren’t called to persecute rapists. These activist groups practice alternative accountability for the sexual assault victims and survivors, with varying levels of success to prevent serial predators hopping to community to community.