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I am Non-Binary.

By : Nic Ryan May 25, 2020 No Comment

This is the deepest and most personal thing I’ve ever written. I am non-binary. It’s important for me to say it that way because this isn’t something that I’ve just now become, I have been non-binary since birth and for me, I do not in my

Schizophrenia: Metamorphosing from Imagination to Reality

By : AroonaBanerjie May 22, 2020 No Comment

Trigger warning: this article discusses mental health and violent behavior. The medical definition of 'Schizophrenia' is given as: Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that

Do You Like Girls?

By : Nife Howls May 19, 2020 No Comment

She said it so flatly, as if it was another time and space completely, “Do you like girls?” I was sixteen, I think. Yea. Sixteen, and so far from my true self that at this present day I’d have to say that she was a ghost

What Cracked My Egg

By : Rina Metis May 19, 2020 No Comment

Have you ever thought you were someone and then turns out you’re someone else entirely? That’s what happened to me. I thought I was a cis-may-not-be-totally-hetero man for a long stretch of time, but then I saw a video of a trans woman sharing her experience

I didn’t come out. Gay just happened.

By : Angie Williams May 19, 2020 01 Comment

Why I never really came out in the traditional sense. Trigger warning: this article discusses substance abuse, mental health and suicidal ideation. If you asked me to describe my life from ages 15 to 23, I’d tell you that those were the worst eight years of