Learning to Hate Myself
Writing and artwork by Jessie Li // My flaws do not make me any less valuable or any less capable or any less worthy of love. I am so much more. I am proud of who I am, and I am grateful for my body.
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Fitbit, Diet Culture and the Space You Occupy
Writing by Katie Buddle // photograph by Lais Azevedo // TW: This article discusses eating disorders and diet culture, and specifically mentions calorie counting.
Read MoreTRANSITIONS: PART 4 OF 4: acceptance
Writing by Tatum Van Dam // Trust me, I am trying to work my hardest to convince myself that I am just as beautiful on the outside as I am on the inside.
Read MoreTransitions: PART 3 OF 4: (im)perfection
Writing and artwork by Tatum Van Dam // The results of being in another country at a new school with foreign people were shocking: you can be yourself and people will accept you for you.
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Writing by Maria Emrides // Illustration by Freya Bennett // Intimacy isn’t just skin to skin contact, it’s sharing part of yourself and your energy and all of those things deserve to be mirrored by someone who values connection in the same way you do. So take the time to define what it means to you first, and let it be worth waiting for.
Transitions PART TWO: Awkward
Writing and artwork by Tatum Van Dam // Seeing other girls changing in the locker room taught me everything that I was doing wrong (but was too scared to change on my own).
Read MoreTransitions PART ONE: Ladylike
Writing and artwork by Tatum Van Dam // The phrase “that’s not ladylike” became a recurring statement throughout my childhood, despite the fact that most of these not-so-lady-like actions came as derivatives from growing up in a household predominantly filled with boys.
Read MoreMore Than Terminal
Writing by Lucy Beall Lott // I have Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, a terminal genetic condition with an average life expectancy of eighteen years old, and currently without a cure. I am now twenty.
Read MoreOne Week Till Period Witches
Writing by Freya Bennett // With only one week left we are so excited to share with you how to harness the power of your menstrual cycle for a more creative, productive, and self-care-filled existence.
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How To Green Your Period
Writing by Carol Morris – Menstrual Mentor, Lunette Menstrual Cups Australia // Studies have shown that the majority of people will continue to use the same sanitary product that they were introduced to during early puberty.
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