Self

SELF

The Grand Return of Concerts Has Been Cathartic, and I Will Never Take Them for Granted Again

After a 16 months-hiatus, live music is back, and I’m finally putting the pieces of myself back together

BY MEGAN WRAY

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I Found Joy in Mending my Relationship with my Parents and Breaking Cultural Expectations

I've now started living as the creator of my own reality - and it's been an act of liberation

BY SOPHIE LAU

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Just Like Me, My Friend Is Now a Victim of Stealthing - I Talked to Psychologists to Find Ways to Help Her Cope

When my friend's bad date turned out to be sexual assault, I felt dizzy and nauseous - because I could relate.

BY MAHEVASH SHAIKH

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On Returning to “Male” Spaces When You’re No Longer Male

What happens when you go back to male-dominated gaming events when you don't look 'visibly queer'?

BY SAM MOORE

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The Good Asian:
"When All This Is Over, We Will Be Free."

"It is only when you step back, stop looking at the wires one by one, microscopically, and take a macroscopic view of the whole cage, that you can see why the bird does not go anywhere." (Marilyn Frye)

BY MICHELLE FAN

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My Coming Out: A Chat with Eleanor Noyce

Coming out stories are as diverse as people

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

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Why Do I Know So Little About Periods, and Whose Fault Is That?

There’s still so much we don’t know about menstruation that, as adults, we are still startled by what having our period really looks like - over and over again.

BY SHEMS ROCHA

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My Coming Out: A Chat with Emma Flint

Happy Pride month everybody!

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

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When He Was Called Out, I Called Myself Out Too

I used to think I had complete control over my body, until I met ‘him’: the ultimate Z list woke boy and friend of feminists, outed for toxic behaviour a year later

BY AMI VENRAR

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My Period Ruined My Life and Worsened my Disability, But I Took Charge

I learned the pill is so much more than a contraceptive for disabled people like me

BY FRANCESCA HUGHES

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My Coming Out: A Chat with Jo Maenzanise

"I worried about my safety because people are often driven to harm others simply because they cannot stand their existence."

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

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How Distance Brought Me Closer to the Cuisine of My Disappearing Minority

Living in America, the culture of Parsi Zoroastrians lives through me - and through the food I brought with me

BY RHEA DHANBHOORA

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If You're Like Me, Commitment Issues May Be a Sign of Relationship OCD

For years I obsessed over my capacity for commitment and love, until I looked up my symptoms and found out the truth

BY ADRIANNA NINE

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My Coming Out: A Chat with Rachel Badham

“I’m incredibly proud that I came out despite having very low self-confidence."

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

SELF

Reclaiming My Mental Health Through Microdosing Psychedelics

 It is possible to change the story we tell ourselves

BY DA YOUNG LISA PARK

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My Coming Out: A Chat with Felix

“For me, transitioning was an act of self-love.”

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

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How Embracing My Natural Black Hair Has Shaped My Identity

Reconnecting to natural roots leads the way to self love

BY MAXINE HARRISON

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The Art of Drag: Finding Spaces for Change and Growth

You really don't need to look perfect on your first try.

BY SAM MOORE

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Learning and Unlearning My Identity on the European Continent

What does it mean to be a true European?

BY AISHANATASHA ADISASMITA

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My Coming Out:

A Chat with Sam Adams

Coming out stories are as diverse as people.

BY JENNIFER HAKIM

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We Are the Invisibly Disabled: We Don’t Have a Box

Just because we look fine doesn't mean we are

BY LAVONNE ROBERTS

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Dear Uncertainty, Please Leave Me Alone

The only fresh start 2020 brought was towards the unknown.

BY NOEMIE HUREL

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Swimming Helped Me Feel Valid in My Disabled Identity

Everything I worry about clears away with the crystalline clarity, and I feel my pain recede, giving me respite in the healing waters

BY CATRIONA MORTON