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The Importance of Social Media When It Comes to LGBTQ Kids Feeling Seen

By Amber Leventry — 2019

For LGBTQ youth in particular, the Internet can be a refuge—a safe place to feel less alone. For queer youth to feel normal, they need to see, read and hear the voices of others who look like them and use the same identifying labels.

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What It’s Like to Be Gay in the Military

“There was no way for it to work together, so I created two people…”

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Thirteen-Year-Old Comes Out to Class: “This Is Who I Am and I Make No Apologies.”

As part of a class assignment in seventh grade, Arwyn Halloran was asked to write an autobiography. Though initially unsure of whether to include her sexual orientation in the narrative, she ultimately decided that including that detail would be helpful to her class—and to her.

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In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life

“There is no one way to be non-binary, and that’s truthfully one of the best things about it. It’s an identity that is yours to shape.

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Hayley Kiyoko’s Advice on Coming Out and Loving Yourself

For #NationalComingOutDay, Hayley Kiyoko sat down with us to share her coming out story, her path to self-acceptance, and the mantra she repeats to herself every morning.

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Trans-forming Our Thoughts on Gender | Katina Sawyer | TEDxVillanovaU

Gender is the primary organizing category that individuals utilize in society today. However, because of the prevalence of normative masculine and feminine gender expression, these expression have become problematically linked with biological narratives.

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How Does Cancer and Cancer Treatment Affect Body Image and Confidence?

Cancer, and cancer treatment, can change your body, what it looks like and your body confidence. Young people and teenagers share how cancer changed their body but how they still feel still like themselves.

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Notes on a Nervous Planet

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age.

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Gender: Your Guide—A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture

The days of two genders—male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink—are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving.

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Love, No Matter What | Andrew Solomon

What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...

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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us.

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