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Lesbian Sex

Sadomasochism & Mental Health: Self-Expression

“When I was diagnosed, and realizing how it affected me outside of the way that I eat, it’s these processes throughout my day or the way that my personality functions. It isn’t that disruptive, but having the framework helped. Finding kink, having the words for it, helped contextualize the sex that I like to have, the friendships that I like to have, the dynamics that I like to have and the relationships in general.”

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Gender Parenting & Family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

My intention was always to go back to my binders as soon as I was done nursing my son. But the longer I waited, and the longer they sat there in my drawer, tucked in with my socks and underwear, the more they became less a sense of self that waited to be reclaimed and more a lurking, almost ominous presence that filled me with anxiety every time I thought about going to put one on.

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LGBT Pride

Reparations Payments at Black Pride Events Should Be Embraced, Not Condemned

Taking B(l)ack Pride Seattle is an event that centers Black and Brown trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people (TLGBQ+). For the second year in a row, event organizers have asked white attendees to honor the Black-centered space by paying reparations via an attendance fee.
In the absence of reparations for African descendants of slaves and other survivors of white-supremacist and colonial violence — Taking B(l)ack Pride is giving us another model for grassroots reparations that should be embraced — not condemned.