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Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride

As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.

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Health Love + Sex

Unlearning Shame, Relearning Pleasure: Resources on Healing From Purity Culture

Reflect on the ways in which you’ve internalized purity culture’s messages about sex, love, and what is “good” and what is “bad” or shameful in your own life

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Health

NY Needs More Midwives: Here’s How You Can Help

The violence against Black and Indigenous birthing people is intergenerational violence and trauma happening in real time, in each birth. Healing it – by making midwifery more accessible for more people, in the contexts and environments that are centered on the comfort, care, respect, and empowerment of birthing people – is one deeply important step forward in creating that world.

Beneath a grid made to look like a Zoom screen, a dark-haired person sleeps in bed. A dog sits on the floor and looks up at the person. The Zoom screen windows read, "Vertigo. Migraines. Dizziness. Depressive episodes. Anxiety. Headaches. Sudden weakness. Brain fog. Joint pain. Fear. Frequent naps. Failed class. No answers. Dog. Falling behind."

Health

Remote Learning Is Over, But I’m Still Disabled

When the university I attend announced a return to face-to-face classes, I felt afraid.

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Parenting & Family

You Need Help: How Do I Get Through Living With My Homophobic Parents?

You do not need to feel guilty about the ways you’re hurting.

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Health

Face Off: A Primer for the Care and Keeping of Your Skin

I know it seems like a lot, but the basic steps of a skincare routine — wash your face, moisturize it, put some sunscreen on it, then wash it off again at the end of the day — are super easy. Just like falling off a log with your face. Enjoy!

A light-skinned person wearing sleep shorts and an oversized t-shirt sits on the edge of a bed, hands clasped over their crotch protectively. They might have vaginismus?

Health Sex

Is Vaginismus Making Penetration Painful? Here’s What It Is and How to Treat It

Vaginismus can get in the way of essential practices and pleasurable activities, like penetrative sex, penetrative masturbation, inserting tampons or menstrual cups and receiving pelvic exams. But with the right guidance from a doctor and/ or a physical therapist, vaginismus can be treated.

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Health

When Restorative Justice Language, Instead of Action, Perpetuates Sexual Abuse

I tried to lead restorative justice in my own sexually abusive (former) t4t relationship. I did this because I am an abolitionist and know people are more than the worst things they do. What I didn’t know at the time: we should have not been the ones to facilitate the process. With leftist language co-opted, I didn’t know I was allowed to leave; I didn’t know I was allowed to have boundaries.

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Health Sex

So You Want to Try Sex Therapy

Sex therapy is one of those things that sounds simple on the surface, but is really much more widely encompassing that one might originally suspect.

Camila, creator of The Pause Project, poses in two different photos: one she is standing and sewing, the other she is kneeling and facing the camera. Both images are on a peach background.

Health

The Pause Project: How to Take Time for Self-Care, Slowness, and Joy

We could all do with a little bit more self-care right now; this how-to takes you through one dyke’s journey to find joy and slowness through The Pause Project. Learn about her process and read about some ways you can curate a self-care project like this for yourself.

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Health

How I Learned to Organize My Life Around My Menstrual Cycle (and So Can You)

Eventually, tracking my cycle started feeling less like planning around my terrible PMS and more like following a rhythm. Once I identified my varying needs during each phase of my cycle, I was able to take better care of myself overall.

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Parenting & Family Webcomics

Foolish Child #91: Your Child IS Evil

“He pretended he didn’t know that you were gay — for laughs!”

Health

I Tested And Rated 8 Natural Deodorants So You Don’t Have To

Trust me — when you’re making the somewhat smelly transition to the natural deodorant life, social distancing will be your best friend. If you need a push to get started, I tested and rated natural deodorants to help you make your selection.

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Health

So You Want to Try Relational Therapy

The most important aspect of therapy is the relationship that is built between you and your therapist.

Travel

Six Black Queer Travelers Share How They Attempt to Locate Community Around the Globe

As a Black queer traveler, there are a whole host of reasons why finding other Black queer communities can be difficult. Black Queer Travel Guide spoke to six Black queer people about their experiences of trying to find Black queer family wherever they go.

First Person Valentine's Day

Making Amends with Valentine’s Day

I hid behind instruments, computers, Whitney’s voice, Prince’s guitar. I sat in front of my computer surrounded by cassettes, illegally downloading songs, awkwardly whispering “I love you more than I know how to explain and I’m scared so here’s a mixtape I made you.”

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Health

So You Want to Try Creative/Expressive Therapy

There’s no reason why the field of therapy shouldn’t offer alternatives to meet people of all ages where they’re at with regard to verbal communication — which is where expressive therapy comes in.

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Get Into These Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Picks (and Get Your Date Off Valentine’s Weekend)

Wet For Her has everything for you and your boo this Valentine’s Day weekend, from shared vibrators to harness-compatible dildos to boxer brief harnesses to use with them — and they’re making sure to get everything to you before the big day if you order before February 7th!