Results for: no fucks to give
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What If It’s a Woman?
“We spoke up. Hell, this was post-#MeToo era. We were heroes. I was… a hero. So, why did I feel so much shame when, a year later, a woman sexually assaulted me?”
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When I Stopped Apologizing for My Fatness, I Started to Heal
I had to figure out what it meant to reconnect with a body I’d always been afraid of.
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In Challenging, Complex Essays, “Unsafe Words” Queers the #MeToo Movement
Multiple of these essays ask how we can make queer spaces safer, especially for our most vulnerable community members, while also not becoming our own police.
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The Revolutionary Anger of Asian Women
Our anger can be a tool of resistance in a post-pandemic world. Instead of burying or relinquishing it, we should learn to use it.
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Y’All Need Help #27: But Back to YOU
A ruined friendship, body hair at work, coming out a little later when you’re about to marry a dude, and a frank conversation about assault. We really can have it all.
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Five Trans Service Members on the Glory and Agony of the US Military
These are stories of trans people who have served or are serving in the US military; their experiences range from the positive to the deeply traumatic and everywhere in between.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Sounds Like Purrs
Recovering from trauma through feline friendship.
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How Rape Jokes Sound Inside Queer Bodies
If the performer had known that I write about the horrific violence against my community by day and process the trauma of that work in my journal by night, maybe he wouldn’t have made that joke. But I bet you he would have resented the implication that he shouldn’t.
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Daily Fix: Mansur Ball-Bey Killed by St. Louis PD on Anniversary of Kajieme Powell’s Death and More News
Another death of a young black man at the hands of police in St Louis, the first ever openly trans White House staffer, why marriage licenses still aren’t being issued in a county in Kentucky after the Supreme Court decision, an attempt to ban LGBT-friendly children’s books in Venice, and more.
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You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Was Sexually Assaulted and You Don’t Know How to Help
“She told me she’d been raped… She’s feeling embarrassed and ashamed and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do… and everything seems a mess.”
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We Have Lots of Noise, We Need Lots of Solutions: Preventing Sexual Assault at (Every) American University
The recent scandal surrounding the disturbing messages leaked from American University’s Epsilon Iota is a national story, and sheds light on a national problem. The response of AU students shows us something, too — how students can organize as a community to force their administrations to take action against campus sexual assault.
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You Need Help: After Sexual Assault
“How do I deal with an assault that wasn’t rape? How can I keep from feeling like my assault is being minimized?”
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It Gets Worse: Radio Host Uses Penn State Sex Abuse to Discuss Gay Adoption
What does the Penn State sex abuse scandal have to do with gay adoptive families? Oh, that’s right, nothing.