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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.
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For as long as I have been alive, I have been aware that my body is more important to most people than my mind.
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Pride isn’t always a festive occasion for everyone, as we commemorate what the LGBTQIA community has endured and survived in past years. Tiffany Babb writes about the complex emotions that arise when we don’t feel celebratory during this month of rainbows and sparkles.
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Blake Planty reflects on his journey of having a trans body within the complicated world of medical jargon, procedures, and health insurance.
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S.M. Mikesell debunks misconceptions and myths around belly dancing while weaving in history and personal memories of her time as a dancer in Australia and the United States.
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We all have songs that transport us to a particular time and place. With snapshot vignettes, Tanea Lunsford Lynx constructs a literary mixtape of memories, from childhood dancing to Columbia University.
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V.F. Thompson writes about a time when performance art became a safe retreat and how in stillness, there is transformation.
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In the wake of #MeToo and updated Title IX requirements for reporting sexual assault, Théodore Fahey Pavlich reflects on their personal experiences through the U.S. education system with unflinching honesty.
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Louise Davis writes about exploring dating through Tinder in a humourous lens.
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It is a performance not only of the humor in mundanity, but also of our pain. Sharing pain in a way that is both honest enough to feel cathartic while still digestible to your smaller viewership. Real enough.
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Another year of abuse of power and atrocities - of the value of marginalized people shown to be disposable. Of agendas made of lies told by a tiny group of men deciding the outcome high above our heads.
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I forced myself to admit that, while things were irreparable, I was still holding on. That I was staying even though I should leave, because I believed her when she said no one else would love me.
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