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The Gay Nightmare Before Christmas: A Holiday Fanfic of Disturbing Lesbian Movies
Consider this your break from happy endings and an opportunity for some gay yuletide catharsis.
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Can You Scroll Your Way to Self-Healing? Navigating Social Media Therapy Influencers and Mental Health
Therapy influencers can point you in the right direction, certainly… but healing happens in relationships, intentionally and in an embodied way, over the course of our lives.
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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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Needing To Abort Due To a Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnosis Was Heartbreaking Enough Already
Getting a life-limiting fetal diagnosis like trisomy 18 is devastating to expectant parents, who usually choose to abort rather than wait for an inevitable miscarriage, stillbirth, or a painful brief life for their child. But after Roe’s overturning, parents in many areas won’t have that choice at all, making an already heartbreaking situation more dangerous and traumatic.
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Queered & Careered: Sussing Out if An Employer is Trash
When you’re queer, every career decision can have consequences for your emotional, mental, or even physical health. Planning ahead, finding support, and asking critical questions about the people and companies you’re “dating” is central to your survival.
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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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Holigay Gift Guide: For Dykes Who Love Their Bikes
From the moment I got the training wheels off my Strawberry Shortcake bicycle in kindergarten to the starter mountain bike I got for high school graduation to the first bike I bought with my very own money, nothing has ever made me as free as cycling.
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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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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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10 Reasons Why All Ghosts Are Gay
Casper? Gay. Bloody Mary? Gay. The Ghost of Christmas Past? Well, go ahead and give that androgynous lil’ ghostie some chapstick and a Tracy Chapman record, ‘cause that wisp of Christmas spirit is GAY.
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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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Respect Your Elders: Zoom With 72-Year-Old Therapist Antonio Feo
“Be present for yourself and others. It’s not asking a whole lot.”
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Holigay Gift Guide: Gear and Gadgets for Wilderness Survival
Have a queer survivalist friend who needs some new gear to round out their “get up and go” kit? Or a friend who just likes hiking and/or being outdoors but isn’t sufficiently prepared for the possibility of something going wrong?
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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? -
So You Want to Try CBT, DBT or ACT
A quick look at Psychology Today lists dozens of modalities, filled with acronyms and industry jargon. So, to help guide you even more – and to help you feel more secure in interviewing a therapist – here’s the first in a series of breakdowns to help you Choose Your Own (Therapy) Adventure. Today we’ll look at some of the most well-known and popular therapies: CBT, and its offshoots, ACT, and DBT.
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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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Harm Reduction in Hard Times: What Safety & Care Around Drug Use Can Teach Us During COVID-19
Even prior to COVID-19, harm reduction has been a strategy of leftist organizing and key to an abolitionist future. Building a politics which acknowledges how layers of marginalization impact your health outcomes, and still goes “beyond just surviving to actually enjoying our lives and accounting for those health disparities,” is the goal.
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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.
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Come Gather, All Ye Gentlequeers: It’s Autostraddle Holigay Meet-Up Season!
I am determined to find joy and then somehow figure out how to make it contagious in an attempt to heal the world! I’m also here to enlist you in said mission by encouraging you all to get into the spirit and host some holigay meet-ups!
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work
Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.