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It’s likely that you will or already do know someone who will experience or has experienced trauma of some form. As friends, it’s important that we understand the responsibilities and limitations of our role, so we can best support our friends who are survivors and maintain our boundaries. Has someone disclosed to you a traumatic experience they’ve had? How can you best support that person and yourself? Here’s some information about trauma, the role of friends, and what it means to really support survivors.

I’d like to have a frank discussion with you about where these anti-trans bills come from, what you can do to be informed about the rhetoric surrounding them, and how you can affirm yourself and practice self-care while you may hear and feel so many people being non-supportive or outright hateful about trans and gender-nonconforming people.

Hey there, lost. I’m so sorry that you had to experience that abuse, but I’m very glad you survived it, and have started to be able to look towards healthy, wanted intimacy in your future. Let’s see if I can help get you started. First, I want to alleviate a fear that could get in your way. You don…

First off, I’m so glad that your family has shown you so much support. Everyone deserves to have loving support from friends and family if and when they choose to come out to them, and it’s great that your family’s standing behind you right now. Their acceptance and support of your bisexuality is a…

When a young person comes out, the adults in their lives can have all sorts of reactions. If you’re trying to be a supportive parent, here are just a few of the ways you can help them navigate those moments.

We hope every time you open up to someone about your truth they respond with love and kindness. But we also want to make sure you’re prepared in case they don’t, and give you some practical strategies and tools to look after yourself if that’s what happens. With that in mind, here’s a new, totally non-exhaustive, step by step guide to coming out.

Hoo boy. You’ve hit on a lot of big questions here. Some are the kind that can (and sometimes do) lead to knock-down, drag-out fights in the queer community. I’m going to do my best to tread lightly. What’s coming across in your question is that your evaluation of your friends’ identity is more…

A miscarriage is a pregnancy that naturally ends before twenty weeks of pregnancy, all by itself. Here’s what it’s all about and how it can be as an experience.

If you don’t know about what it’s like to be pregnant at any or every stage and you just want half a clue, this is your article.

When someone comes into our direct services with a pregnancy scare, there are some things that we will and won’t do. We absolutely will help users who could clearly be or may soon become pregnant: with things like how to access emergency contraception, abortion, adoption or prenatal care, how to…