Before we start, a general content warning and preamble: Firstly, this essay is about sex, intimacy, body image and…
TW: Eating Disorders
If your childhood was anything like mine, you played pretend on the playground. You ran around, and pretended to be characters from your favorite books or movies. Pretended to be superheroes, wizards, spacemen, or whatever else. And then…
After coming out of the closet, I was quickly established as the token queer activist at Tacoma…
When I was growing up I didn’t take notice of the lack of diversity in media, or even how impactful the depictions of black people were when they were featured in the media. It wasn’t until one of my earliest Halloweens came around that I began to see that there…
When I was little I used to check the box for Black on standardized tests. It wasn’t until the topic randomly came up with my Mom and she informed me that I could and should check the boxes for both Black and white, that I realized being mixed was an identity of…
We live in a very categorized world. When searching for my own identity, I questioned how I myself would be identified based on the social categorizations our world has condensed everything into. The reality is, categories will undoubtedly follow us wherever we go. As much as I have learned…
The process of making one’s feelings or thoughts known is an ability that ties almost all humans together…