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Maya Strong
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Human Parts
May 16
How 15-Year-Old Me Severed Ties with Toxic Femininity
Chopping off my own hair was my first act of…
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Wes X
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Human Parts
Nov 19, 2022
LIVED THROUGH THIS
A Mass Shooting and You
What it feels like when your family is part…
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Cai Emmons
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Human Parts
Jul 20, 2022
When Independence Slips Away
I understood it would happen eventually. Now, ‘eventually’ has arrived.
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Nora Bateson
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Jul 1, 2022
THIS IS US
Self Portrait
I could be an ink on paper where the ink soaked through to where we meet
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Katy Friedman Miller
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Jan 9, 2022
HUMANS 101
A Grief Therapist’s Take On Our Longing to Be Seen
What would the neon sign over your head say?
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Alister Felix
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Jan 5, 2022
How a Snow Globe Triggered an Identity Crisis
My self-worth was tested when I was gifted a snow globe…
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Whitney E. Waddell
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Jan 2, 2022
LIVED THROUGH THIS
Facing the Truth
Why I conceal my birthmark
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Cai Emmons
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Human Parts
Oct 19, 2021
THIS IS US
When the Body Changes, Are You the Same Person?
ALS has transformed my body…
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Gayle Kirschenbaum
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Jul 17, 2021
Am I Pretty Enough? I thought so.
I haven’t lived life looking into the mirror much — usually just a passing glance now and then and…
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Lakeya Omogun, Ph.D.
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Human Parts
Mar 29, 2021
I Do Not Want Our Mothers’ Strength
A poem about self-sacrifice
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