When it comes to transgender people, cis-heteronormativity in healthcare can be particularly damaging: the National Transgender Discrimination Survey shows that 19% respondents were refused care, 28% reported harassment, and 50% had to teach their medical providers about transgender health needs.
Read MoreIn the UK alone, 49% of children have missed a day off school because of their period. Almost one in four young women ‘didn’t know what was happening when [their] period started’.
Read MoreWelcome to my second (#2) in the series of game writing scripts which are inspired by the game Raid: Shadow Legends. To read the first in the series, click here.
Read MoreOne thing that stood out is that homosexuality has been recorded in over 1500 species, and that they are yet to find a species that has sex which does not have homosexual individuals
Read MoreWord To My Mother is a personal project I have been working on for the past 8-9 years where I process the loss of my mom and my life without her since then in the form of letters addresses to her personally. She passed away in 2004 when I was 14, just when we had started building our mother-daughter relationship.
Read MoreBeing a student right now feels like opening the exam paper and seeing that topic that you absolutely HATE on the first page. Yeah, that feeling...except it’s every day. It’s confusing and, at times, downright scary.
Read MoreHow many times have we seen that conversation, or one like it? How many opinions are there on the word ‘queer,’ what, in the end, does it mean, and why’s it important? I will offer a different perspective from just saying one is right and the other wrong: the word ‘queer’ is really two words, two queers, the reductive, and the expansive.
Read MoreMy entire life I struggled with this fine line. How can I be kind to myself when I am harsh with my being? I am the one putting pressure. I am the one accepting the pressure from external elements.
Read MoreIt had always been our dream to return to Israel, where we felt we belonged and where our children would have a better future. Telling my parents about our plans was possibly the hardest thing I have ever had to do, and the feeling of guilt remained with me for several years.
Read MoreDry January just ended, and many people choose to completely ignore it in favour of a very wet one! I don't bloody blame you, life is challenging enough right now so yes, enjoy your tipples, why not. But for some it may have been a good opportunity to kick the habit. A starting point to make healthy changes.
Read MoreAs there are many alternatives to alcohol, is alcohol as important to us, with the rise of these low and alcohol-free drinks? Let me start by asking the drinkers among you a question… why do you drink?
Read MoreI had my last drink four and a half months ago. It was nothing eventful or remarkable. There was no drama, not even an unbearable hangover. I had planned to go with a bang, to make it count. Instead, I went camping on the beach with my family, drank my normal bottle of red wine and drained my plastic cup under the stars.
Read MoreDo you want to become a game writer? So, do I! Unfortunately, it is no easy task. However, my recommendation is this: if you love gaming and you love writing, then I would urge you to write stories inspired by your gaming passions if that is a desire that enthrals you.
Read MoreBut before you sign up to your first challenge, or buy that yearly discounted gym membership, consider this? ‘Health is for life, not just for Christmas’. We are all too often sold the quick, one dimensional approach to fitness and exercise. After X weeks we are left floating in a small boat emblazoned ‘life after diet’ wandering what the hell to do now!
Read MoreYour energy is precious. It belongs to you, and it's the only thing you've got to make your life go the way you want it to. Do not waste time investing in people who don't invest in you. This goes for family members, friends, lovers, work colleagues, everyone. It's not about being selfish, and it doesn't mean that you don't care for/love certain people.
Read MoreThis rabbit-like inability to be sick is sadly not evidence of a super-human immune system, nor is it an indication that I possess what my friend Eve would describe as the hardy ‘stomach of a goat’. Instead, it’s the result of a life-long and exhausting struggle with severe emetophobia – one that, up until the recent pandemic, I believed I was finally overcoming.
Read MoreBreast implants or the, ‘Boob Job,’ has been the number one cosmetic procedure carried out for the past 13 years, in the USA alone 300,000 people opted for the procedure in 2019. But many are not aware of Breast Implant Illness and the impact it can have.
Read MoreBynner and Ficke had more than proven their point: they’d successfully demonstrated that anything (even drunken creations about pleasuring oneself) could be passed off as high culture if you tried hard enough.
Read MoreAs a police officer, I dealt with quite a few and knew I would. Some police forces arrange for their young bobbies to attend a post mortem supposedly to get them used to seeing a dead body. What a load of bollox! Most times the police’s involvement with a dead body is simply when someone, usually elderly, has died at home in their sleep.
Read MoreAt some point I made the mistake of saying ‘yes baby, I will always give you a massage whenever you need one’. This was a seriously misjudged error on so many levels. One, I didn’t realise quite how long forever is.
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