Results for: you need help
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Untethered: You Need Help
Asking for help, the kind that requires another person to set aside time for me, to exert themselves physically, feels as easy as touching a hot stove.
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Here’s Why You Should Get a Nude Portrait of Yourself Done
We deserve to feel like art, to feel wonderfully made.
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In “A Recipe for More,” Sara Elise Asks: Who Do You Want To Become?
“We do not have to do anything more to be worthy; we are worthy just because we are.”
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I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming
Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.
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Making An Independent Documentary About Queer Women Is Like Jumping Without A Net
I will never stop trying to tell our stories.
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Porkchop’s Odyssey: On Fatness, Transness, and Pants
This snapshot sits on a shelf in the back of my mind. I keep it in an album called “euphoria.” It includes moments – me in my first bowtie at my college graduation, me on my wedding day, me in the mountains with my first jean jacket. In each, I am myself.
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The Unexpected Loneliness of Getting Divorced
I wondered if my friends were afraid that the honesty it takes to face that a relationship needs to end might be contagious. If they stood too close to me, they might realize they wanted to take a closer look in that mirror too.
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How Bottoming Helped Me Heal From Sexual Trauma
I had to learn how to feel safe in the world in order to bottom. For me, surrender is healing.
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Cherry Coke Triptych
Giving up caffeinated soda was one of the hardest parts of being pregnant.
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Untethered: In Pittsburgh Everyone Knows Everyone and I’m Sure I Do Too
But face-blindess is a bitch.
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We Need QTBIPOC Land Healing Projects
We have a responsibility to care for others. In land stewardship and land healing this means prioritizing accountability to Indigenous folks.
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Untethered: The Designated Girl-Son
I came across the concept of the “designated son” on TikTok.
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Transition Is Allowed To Feel Bad Sometimes
Realistically, I understand that if you do something for 11 months, the chance that you’ll feel good for every second of those 11 months is zero.
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How ‘Booksmart’ Helped Me Come Out as Nonbinary
Although she was swimming, I knew she was soaring. To see her comfortable in her skin and happy with who she was at that moment was so important to me.
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This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat
What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.
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The Soft Butch That Couldn’t (Or: I Got COVID-19 in March 2020 and Never Got Better)
Is a soft butch a soft butch if she can barely hold even herself together? Is a soft butch a soft butch without her swagger?
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Sad in a Prettier Place
A big reason for my move was the fact that I’m immune compromised. Instagram’s creepy algorithm delivered me an image, “moving won’t solve your problems, you’ll just be sad in a prettier place.”
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Working Out at a Strength Gym Has Been Great, but These Exercises Make Me Want To Scream
Even though I believe in complete body liberation and fat freedom, I don’t like to talk about my “I’ve been fat my whole life” baggage.
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Black Girls Are Always at the Center of Horror
There is a haunting that black girls know.
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My Anxiety Turns Life Into a Horror Movie
Most of my fears are around dying, maybe because I don’t understand it.