don't know if it helps but I feel pretty isolated by my gender too :/ i feel like its a constant struggle to make people understand what its like...
I think gender isn't necessarily about acting assertive at one point or wanting to feel pretty or whatever, or about how much you look like a guy...
Holding ice is a good alternative to cutting if you feel you need to express your pain somehow. Things sound really tough for you right now :/
Hey so I've been struggling pretty hard the last week or so. My dysphoria feels like it's just getting worse and worse and it's going to overwhelm...
I use, the singular they, like this: River went to the shops, they bought milk there. They like to put milk on their cereal. (I'm eating breakfast...
first off there is nothing "wrong" with you. there is never any right or wrong way to feel unless your taking your feelings out on someone else. i...
Hey dude! I too was diagnosed with AS when I was about 20. It was a big shock and life changing experience for a while. It was also a huge relief...
:eusa_clap I think your right, gender is a subjective experience and saying that its a social construct or that its innate misses out on a lot of...
What I did was I picked a name that was comfortable enough in the short term and was pretty close to my original name. Then I started thinking...
I think it comes from the phrase "one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman" which was by simone de beauvoir. Even the words man and woman are...
I think in general I feel closer to people who are queer in some way, I feel that there is a common ground there that straight and cis people...
i figured out who i was after a long period of meditating everyday and doing some deep self reflection. to me it seems like an obvious and very...
I love his videos :eusa_danc passing is really important, but some people will be dicks no matter what, you need to develop a bit of a thick skin.
Its kind of difficult and I find it depends on where you are. With public bathrooms you don't know who's going to be in there. In a college you...
i think your right manraffe. thanks for your kind words. the analogy with the airplane us good. nuts definitely a case where trying to be around...
So I just feel I need to share this, I've had serious issues with my mother since I was young. She's always "been there" for me but they've...
Hey I just wanted to give my two cents cause you remind me of me when I was your age, I was having a lot of mental health problems, had been...
Tbh bell hooks was a bad example as she is very for the feminist cause regards education and inclusion. And to be honest she is the theorist in...
Yo, So I just thought I'd vent here a bit. I'm back living with my parents while I try to get my life back on track after some set backs....
I'm gonna go against this a bit because I studied a good bit of feminism in college and I have some issues with the way it has developed as a...