Identity

The Music I Threw Away

I gave up secular music twice as a church girl, but it found its way back to me

Jun 16 • Amena Brown

Pinch More Than an Inch

The fat-phobic lessons I took away from a Kellogg’s Special K ad when I was twelve taught me to hate my body

Jun 9 • Lu Chekowsky

Taylor Swift Is My Personal Trainer

Working out while attending The Church of No One Understands Me

Jun 4 • John DeVore

What It’s Actually Been Like as a Trans Person Working in Gender Affirming Care at a Major Pediatric Hospital in Trump’s America

My five-and-a-half year journey to get...here

Jun 1 • Friendly Neighborhood Tranpa

How a DNA test, not mine, changed my life

Apr 23 • Tracey Edelist, PhD

I Couldn’t Sing, But I Joined a Chorus Anyway

From lip-synching to not faking it

Apr 21 • Gabe Montesanti

Changing My Hair Color Used to Be an Act of Rebellion. Now I Know It Means So Much More

When I decided to dye my blonde locks brown in the midst of a painful divorce, I realized the act of changing my hair was less about defiance and more…

Apr 20 • Heather Sweeney

My Tattoos Are More Than Art

They’re a roadmap of my life

Apr 15 • Athena Dixon

The Best of Both Worlds. Or Is It?

How “Hannah Montana” made me realize I was masking my anxiety

Apr 6 • Kate Warrington

Object-ives #29: What Price Nostalgia? $495 Plus Shipping

The heartbreak of a discarded concert T-shirt

Apr 3 • Melissa Meinzer

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

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