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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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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.
Read MoreThe subterfuge is tiresome - my septum ring flipped up every time I come home, hiding the undercuts in my hair with the long hair falling over and my nails trimmed short short short. I’m tired of waiting to tell them.
Read MoreMy own belly, held in my hands, soft touches and apologies, trying to make up for decades of misplaced anger, as it grows shrinks stretches aches wakes listens revels lies content.
Read MoreI was an angry kid because I already knew everything was bullshit, and I knew it didn’t have to be that way. While knowing it wasn’t my fault didn’t stop me from being wounded by it, it also doesn’t diminish my responsibility to heal those wounds myself, and to not pass them along.
Read MoreIt puzzles me - the concept of belonging has always filled me with some combination of dread and hope. The ghost of this thought follows me everywhere with her bloody feet, persistent and quiet, save for one word:
where?
Read MoreWith every mile I put between me and the fire, I felt safer and calmer.
Read MoreI've always admired people who share their hearts without hesitation. I hold on to mine for dear life.
Read MoreFrom 2016 on, I plan to continuously express my gratitude in the warmest way: By loving a Black woman.
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