Gender identity is freedom, freedom from the boxes society makes, the boxes I tried to make myself fit in for so many years. Freedom from a mask so heavy I wonder how it took so long for me to see…
Category: LGBTQI+
Gender Values in Marriage
First things first, I would like to celebrate the simple fact that same-sex marriage is legal in the United Kingdom, as of 2014. I am a gay man myself, currently married to a man. After shortly dating each other we…
PODCAST: From Survivor to Thriver Episode 63: “Sometimes you’ve got to sit in it”
Lisa, a mom, parenting author, nationally syndicated humor columnist, and a podcast host, is also a survivor of suicide loss, having lost her father when she was ten. She grieved the loss of her father twice, as she was told…
A Gender Conundrum
Growing up autistic (and not knowing until my early 30s) was confusing in many ways, but the minefield of LGBTQ+ terminology was particularly bewildering to me. I find it hard to see things outside of the ‘rules’ I have been…
Psychosis for those who care about someone with Psychosis
What If I Wasn’t Crazy? – An Inside Look, for the Normals, and Other Scary Individuals. The hotel staff pressed his naked body to the ground. His initiation was almost complete. Lots of things buzzed through his mind as they…
A Letter to my Ex-Girlfriend
When I was eight or nine years old, I remember having a vivid dream which had such an effect on me that I was never able to forget it. A friend of a friend had run away from home and…
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