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Maya Strong

The Phrase “Your Picker Is Off/Broken” Enables Abusive Men

Victims and survivors do not choose abusers — abusers choose them

6 min readMar 31, 2024

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The Phrase “Your Picker Is Off/Broken” Enables Abusive Men

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Three Cis-Male Dates Hit Me Last Year and That’s Not Acceptable

Our society doesn’t know how to raise boys to be safe people and it shows

6 min readMar 11, 2024

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Three Cis-Male Dates Hit Me Last Year and That’s Not Acceptable

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Why I Kept Talking to My Rapist After He Raped Me

I promise I’m not stupid or naive

6 min readMar 10, 2024

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Why I Kept Talking to My Rapist After He Raped Me

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Maya Strong

Coming Out Take II

Take as many detours as you need on the road to finding yourself

5 min readMar 9, 2024

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Coming Out Take II

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My Long, Complicated Relationship with the End of the World

When you've always heard the sky is falling, the warning loses its meaning

6 min readJul 31, 2023

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My Long, Complicated Relationship with the End of the World

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How 15-Year-Old Me Severed Ties with Toxic Femininity

Chopping off my own hair was my first act of gender expression and heteronormative resistance

9 min readMay 16, 2023

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How 15-Year-Old Me Severed Ties with Toxic Femininity

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Are You Dating a “Man Child”?

If you see these red flags, you can kiss the dream of an equal partnership goodbye

7 min readMay 13, 2023

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Are You Dating a “Man Child”?

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Trolls Who Criticize ESA Owners Online Are Privileged and It Shows

Tell me you don’t understand trauma or mental health without telling me you don’t understand trauma or mental health

4 min readFeb 27, 2023

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Trolls Who Criticize ESA Owners Online Are Privileged and It Shows

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Why Don’t We Talk More About Empty Arms Syndrome?

Healing from complicated grief is not just mental or emotional, but also physical

6 min readDec 23, 2022

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Why Don’t We Talk More About Empty Arms Syndrome?

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Learning About Reborn Dolls Shifted My Perspective on Infant Loss

Parents of living, passed, and unrealized children have a great deal of common ground

6 min readDec 11, 2022

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Learning About Reborn Dolls Shifted My Perspective on Infant Loss

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Maya Strong

Maya Strong

Intersectional feminist. Everyday activist. Out/proud sapphic woman(ish). She/they. For the rest, read my words. Say hi @ mayastrong.writer@gmail.com

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