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Jonathan Van Ness on Being HIV Positive: “It Gave Me a Reason to Really Fight”

By Aaron Hicklin — 2019

The charismatic star of hit TV show Queer Eye had a troubled and chaotic early life. Here, for the first time, he talks about his life with the virus.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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Michael Phelps: ‘I Can’t See Any More Suicides’

In the documentary “The Weight of Gold,” Phelps presents a stark picture of the mental wear and tear Olympians endure.

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Matthew Futterman
2020
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The Antidote for Shame

The author of Discovering Your Soul Signature reveals how to free yourself—finally.

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Panache Desai
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common

In Rising Strong (public library), Brown builds upon her earlier work on vulnerability to examine the character qualities, emotional patterns, and habits of mind that enable people to transcend the catastrophes of life, from personal heartbreak to professional collapse, and emerge not only unbroken...

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Maria Popova
2015
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“Vulnerability”

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state.

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David Whyte
2016
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Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass on Bringing Fear Close

As long as you think vulnerability is weakness, you’re going to be afraid. Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass on the kind of vulnerability that’s actually strength.

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Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush
2018
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How to Listen to Pain

Why do we feel shame and how does shame change us?

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Jill Suttie
2016
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The Ms. Q&A: Dr. Brené Brown Wants Feminists to Choose Courage Over Comfort

Dr. Brené Brown has spent the past sixteen years researching courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She has authored four New York Times bestsellers, and her TED talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” is one of the most-viewed TED talks of all time. Ms.

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Anne McCarthy
2018
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