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Isabel Ravenna is a culture journalist whose work appears in Nat Geo, Business Insider, Complex and others. She also writes and edits The Ravenna Report.

A kind of relationship or practice where people in any kind of relationship knowingly agree and consent to one or both people having, pursuing, or being open to other romantic or sexual partners. Also called polyamory (poly) or open relationships. (ENM)

A gender identity that is outside the gender binary. Enby is the phonetic spelling of “NB,” and is a shorthand word for nonbinary.

A medical test (sometimes called a pap test) done by swabbing the cervix which checks for changes/abnormalities of the cervical cells. It can be used to identify changes to those cells due to HPV or cancer or which could lead to cancer.