My family has been pretty bad about body-shaming talk, essentially, my entire life. I think its definitely had negative effects on my ability to find my body beautiful and worthy of love. Thankfully I have a couple of fat radical friends that I can be open and openly talk about being positive about ...

When I got my first period I kind of knew what was happening from having older cousins, but not entirely. I actually ignored it the first time, and didn't actually mention it until the second time it happened. I was around 9 or 10 so my parents were definitely not ready. I had no idea what anything ...

Oh yeah! I totally forgot that you mentioned it in your opening comment.

I was on Facebook today and a friend of mine posted this http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/07/cro ... ation-101/ and it's a great breakdown of what this entire conversation is about.

I think you'd be surprised at how many people feel the same way as you about their gender at a women's college. You should definitely follow through with visiting the school and talking to a tour guide or somebody else about your concerns. Typically the people giving tours are students at the school...

Not a book or movie, but scary spice from the spice girls was the earliest representation of me that I've ever realized. When I was younger I gravitated toward her and I realize now it was because she was the only black one. Part of that was in the name also. All I've ever wanted to be was scary. I'...

I think it's interesting the ways in which things being so commonly intertwined makes it so hard to see them as separate things. I know a handful of people who could be described as heteroromantic pansexuals, in the sense that they would have sex with any person but only honestly fall in love with t...

I'm really with Redskies on this one. The worst sex I've had has always been when whoever I was with was not being completely honest with me. I think communication is so supremely important in sex and when one person is holding back or isn't communicating it makes everything so much less enjoyable. ...

When I'm in relationships I have this really bad habit of a) sticking with really dysfunctional folks that none of my friends like and b) losing myself in the relationship. A lot of the best advice I've heard comes from really corny "you're beautiful and you don't need anybody else songs" ...

This upsets me too. I think somebody else already mentioned how a lot of it is admonishing sterotypically feminine traits and congratulating sterotypically masculine traits. I especially hate it when it's applied to gay men. Like I have a gay male couple that I'm friends with and their both fairly m...