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10 Self Help Books Whose Titles Healed Me Without Having to Actually Read Them
Is reading nonfiction case histories of women who love too much really what I want to do with my one wild and precious life?
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What I Wish People Knew About Eating Disorders, as a Queer Person Who Had One
It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and I’m choosing to create the queer media coverage I want to see.
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The Invisible Addicts: Addiction and Treatment in Black LGBT Communities
In my own struggle to get sober, I would spend days telling myself that my bottoms were “not that bad.” That the next day I would drink lighter, drink less, have water between glasses. For black gay addicts, we’re pressured at both ends. One of the reasons I’m sober today is because people around me talked about it, they extended their hands and hearts to me without knowing it.
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Bisexual Ice Dancer Karina Manta on Leaving Competitive Skating and Joining the Circus
Seeing two queer skaters having fun and being themselves, while incorporating dance elements that are so tied to queer history in ice dance, the most heteronormative of the figure skating disciplines, is a thrill. So I asked Karina Manta how she does it.
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Feelings Rookie: Coping Skills
Coping is a huge part of our lives and we all have our schemes, whether they’re conscious or not. In this particularly troubling time, it’s more important than ever.
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Top 10 YouTube Videos That Did Not Teach Me How To Dance
Is it possible to learn hot dance moves and wow all your pals on the dance floor just from watching YouTube videos? I decided to find out.
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Working On It, Week 7: Zombie Abs
This week in fitness, I’m trying out yoga for beginners, gym-friendly podcasts and running apps.
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Here’s To Your Health: 5 Ways Bisexual Women Can Pursue Better Health & Wellness
Compiled from the wisdom of numerous reports, online resources and experts, here are five ways that you can take care of your own health, even in the face of high risks, economic pressures and often incompetent care providers.
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You Need Help: Your AD(H)D is F*cking Up Your Focus
Here’s what you do first: Close all those browser tabs besides this one, set aside all your other devices, and watch as I lay out these simple techniques to help you learn to rule the world (in easy-to-digest list form).
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Sober in the City: Redefining My Queerness On Fire Island
Other than partying, what did we like, what were we good at, what defined us? One area that many LGBTQ individuals, including myself, struggled with was redefining what it meant to be queer. But, if being queer was synonymous with getting drunk, then how would I ever be able to define myself as anything other than a drunk?
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Getting Health Insurance: A Thing You Have A Few More Days To Do
“It hadn’t hit me until then how awful it had felt to be without insurance — like my life and health had been worth less than other people in this country. I didn’t even know how much of that I’d internalized until I had the stupid little card in my hand, and when it all went away.”
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Top 10 Things I’d Rather Do With Tampons Than Put Them Inside Me
I dare you to walk into a Build-A-Bear with two large cartons of tampons.
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It’s Not Okay: Intimate Partner Violence in Radical Queer Spaces
“She acts like she’s such a victim when obviously there was abuse on both sides.” Awkwardly, I shrug my shoulders and look around the room. My partner doesn’t notice how uncomfortable she’s making me because she’s caught up in her own conjectures: “It’s like how we are sometimes.”
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How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?
Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.
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Hangover and Out: Queer Girls’ Advice On The Day After Drinking
“Is there a way out? Yes, you could just not drink the wine, but I mean besides that.”
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Lesbian Safe Sex 101: The Doctor Is In (Also, the Cartoonist)
It’s hard out there for a sexually active lesbo — how do you get the safe sex info you need when you’re afraid of the gyno and lesbians are ignored in sex ed? WELL WE’VE GOT A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. Also; a cartoonist. Really you have to see the cartoons.