media

A guide to finding queer media, even when it feels hard.

I know how important it is for brown and Black young people to see characters who look like them, and I know how much I longed for someone who looked like me and had a not-so-perfect home life to tell the rest of the world what it can actually like to be a biracial teenage girl.

Why is it that scenes of rape and other sexual violence in media can be so upsetting to some people and not others? Are there ways to be less impacted by these scenes, or avoid them altogether?

The crappy thing about ideal body types is that they are designed to be unreachable by 99.9% of the population: they’re unrealistic. They’re about satisfying one’s conception of what is perfect; that’s the very definition of ideal. Unfortunately, some ideals are also really common, especially once…

Being bisexual entails a very specific struggle that isn’t talked about enough: being believed.

Advice for sorting good information from the bad.

If you’re caring for a young person, then the question of when and how to have “the talk” with them has likely crossed your mind.

What can you do to stay connected without becoming the main component of your teen’s social life, and how do you support teens going through breakups?

Our societies are chock-full of norms and ideals of beauty that shape how we feel about our bodies, and we all run up against them eventually.

Casual sex is one of those things that, so far as we know from the study of people and sex in history, people have always done. Given that for most of human history, basic survival was seriously tough, people’s lives and interactions often were more brief than either are now, and many people or…