Identity

Basketball Taught Me I Can Be a New Person Any Time I Want

I quit playing when I was 10. Now I watch it weekly

Mar 21 • alexis

How to Reroute Yourself

Athena Dixon on singing Oasis songs at karaoke and steering her own course

Mar 18 • Athena Dixon

Molly Was My Gateway Drug to Meditation

How taking the illicit 1990s psychedelic pill paved the way for me to get Zen

Mar 3 • Blair Glaser

After Infertility, I Found a Version of Motherhood I Could Claim As My Own

My identity took shape around the struggle for a child. Who was I now that I actually had one?

Feb 12 • Amy Gallo Ryan

Why I Share My Sex Life on the Internet

Jesse James Rose on sex education and shame reduction via social media

Feb 2 • Jesse James Rose

The Church Lady I Became to Survive Being Queer

How I learned to hide in plain sight by becoming the most devoted volunteer at my Filipino Catholic parish

Dec 29, 2025 • Charlene Trino

I Watched ‘General Hospital’ with My Mom Every Day as a Kid. It’s How I Learned About Rape—And I’m Still a Fan

The soap opera was my earliest lesson about sexual consent

Dec 23, 2025 • Caren Lissner

Why I Went to the Boob Deck

But who would I be when the guys arrived?

Dec 16, 2025 • Paulette Perhach

Why I Identify as a Gamer, Even Though I Play “Girlie Games”

I embraced the most stigmatized video gaming identity

Dec 8, 2025 • Shainna Alipon

What’s Queer?

Two queer Korean adoptees walk into a Korean adoptee event and one says to the other…

Nov 3, 2025 • Talon

There’s a Vegan at Your Dinner Table (P.S. It’s Me)

Why I dropped the conversion act—and started inviting people in

Oct 29, 2025 • Gia Mora

I’m Childfree, But Not by Choice

How my infertility journey led me down a surprising new path

Aug 28, 2025 • Nicole Giordano

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