Transgender women explain what it's like when they don't 'look trans'
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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Hasina Shirzad – After leaving Afghanistan I was unprepared for life in a country where tasks are not strictly divided between the sexes
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I can't stop ghosting my therapists
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Good faith: How queer BDSM and sex work helped me to refuse an inheritance of indoctrination
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I was sexually assaulted. And I believe incarcerating rapists doesn’t help victims like me
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A US Border Patrol agent reveals what it’s really like to guard migrant children
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I was a 10x engineer. And I’m sorry.
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One family’s ordeal with schizophrenia: In “The Edge of Every Day,” Marin Sardy struggles to make sense of a deeply mysterious disease and its effects on her mother and brother
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198X and our deeply personal relationships with games
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We thought our prison strike was a success. Then came the officers in riot gear.
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Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
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I am a Jewish Arab
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I’m a journalist but didn't fully realize the terrible power of US border officials until they violated my rights and privacy
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The new American family: Trans, gender queer, nonbinary, two-spirit
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Why I found my community in a Starbucks
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A year after spinal surgery, a $94,000 bill feels like a backbreaker
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Pulse wasn’t about me. But covering it changed me
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When you give a friend a kidney
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Nine LGBTQ+ people explain how they love, hate, and understand the word "queer"
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The friends who have been playing the same game of Dungeons & Dragons for thirty years
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What it’s like to live beyond a death sentence: With stage IV cancer, chances at survival are slim. Men in remission tell us about staying strong when every day is a bonus
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What it feels like to learn your rapist is dead
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The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37
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"It's a true gift": Shea Couleé opens up about embracing their non-binary identity
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In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
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Many in Chinatown have never tried its most popular restaurant, so I brought the food to them
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Canada’s saddest grow-op: My humiliating adventures in growing marijuana
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I oversaw the US nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned.
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What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll
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I told prison guards I have celiac disease. They fed me gluten anyway
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I regret my role at Facebook, but I’m keeping the money
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How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
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I tried to make Facebook's news feed random and fun
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This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
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Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live.
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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
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Getting diagnosed with ADHD at 25 changed everything
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My childhood in a cult
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A former alt-right member’s message: Get out while you still can
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I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why my medication costs $6,600 a month
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I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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Not dead but gone: How a concussion changed my girlfriend's personality forever
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Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too
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Tumblr helped me plan my eating disorder. Then it helped me heal
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Why I’m boycotting today’s Israeli elections
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I’ve been a lesbian my entire life, but I only realized I was a woman this year
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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Cecilia's life with schizophrenia
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The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest
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