Don’t Just Change Single-Sex Schools, End Them
As school season begins once again, what young people deserve at the very least is an end to single-sex schools.
We Need a Three Day Work Week
The time has come for us to abandon ideas of “normal” and imagine new worlds. What if we also imagined less time at work? What if every weekend was a four-day weekend? If I haven’t convinced you yet, here’s 22 reasons why.
Future Present: Change Happens When We Are Embodied
I knew we all wanted justice, ease and wellbeing, and that our anger was a manifestation of our love for each other. But I also watched as my own fight or flight response kicked in in group dynamics, as I felt habitually roped into defensive positions that felt out of my control. I couldn’t reconcile this big gap between intention and action, so I knew I needed to withdraw not out of avoidance but out of commitment to my own healing. In retreating to understand my own depletion, I discovered somatic practice.
You Need Help: How Do I Get My Best Friend to Go to Therapy?
“Here is the good news—your best friend does have a therapist! Here is the bad news—that therapist is you!”
You Need Help: Should I Cut Off My Racist Dad?
My family is part of the problem, but if I choose to just ignore this fact, do I become part of the problem too?
How to Wear a Mask Without Fogging Up Your Glasses
14 tips for living your mask and glasses life fog-free.
Some of Your Biggest Questions About Managing Mental Health During Covid, Answered by a Therapist
When are the Shoulds are invading your thought process, and try to be curious about that. What is it The Shoulds are trying
to protect you from? What does doing the “bad” or “wrong” thing mean?
How Do You Plan for Transition in a Pandemic-Related Economic Depression? Financial Advisors Have Some Thoughts
The COVID-19 quarantine, which now, perhaps, connotes to be known as a period of extended doldrums for gender transitioning adults across America, has produced its share of coping mechanisms.Autostraddle caught up with two financial advisers who serve transgender clients, Timothy LaPean and Hans Heath.
Raising Anti-Racist Kids: A Guide and Book List for White and Non-Black POC Parents
Protecting our children from hard conversations about race is actively aiding and abetting white supremacy. We can’t afford to stay complicit.
How to Take Care of Each Other: Community Care In Times Of Crisis
“When we’ve all broken past the fear of being burdens on others, when we as communities learn how to ask for and give help and support, we’ll be able to take care of each other.”
Queered & Careered: Manifestation Journaling (Or Using Woo-Woo Talk to Claim the Life You Want)
During this challenging time, use your journal to throw your dreams into space. Imagine what could be and use that energy to fuel your long days.
We’re Stressed the F*ck Out: Practical Tips for Queer Parents in the Pandemic
Parenting during the pandemic is a wild ride, so consider this our queer parenting circle, a safe place to share the good and the bad!
Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home
Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.
You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?
This is going to go great, I swear! Here are six tips to get you started.
I Want You to Touch Me: Skin Hunger and Digital Dysphoria in a Pandemic
Chances are, you know someone who is quarantining alone right now. Maybe even you, yourself, are alone, and have been for the past several weeks. If so, it’s important to learn how this extraordinary circumstance might be effecting your mental, emotional, and physical health – and what steps you can take to mitigate and reduce that harm.
Making Beltane Meaningful in Lockdown
Beltane is fast approaching and for many of us it’s going to be a solo celebration this year.
Queered & Careered: Practice Career Cocooning
Inspired by a caterpillar, cocooning describes a time when you are forced to wait and prepare for the transformation that is taking place inside you. Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dealing with career cocoons right now. Here’s how to cope.
How to Quit Smoking
Tell yourself that you’re not like one of those chain smokers, that you can stop whenever you want. Start smoking American Spirits, so it’s like, not even that bad for you because it’s natural, or organic, or something. You forget.
Stay Home & Let Go of Loopholes: Community Care During Coronavirus
Your life is not going to feel normal. This is not normal. This is a pandemic. This is life or death. Our only tool is physical distance. We have to use it.
Queered & Careered: Career Anxiety
We’re concerned about our health during this pandemic, and for many of us, this stress is further exacerbated by job and financial instability. It’s time to dive into ways we can combat career anxiety when it inevitably comes our way.