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In our current age, dating is extremely difficult–however, gay dating is even worse. From a socialization standpoint, men are taught to bury emotions, hide anything that resembles humanity, and basically look for as many sexual conquests as you can possibly muster. From my personal experiences, the following occurrences are many of the issues I faceContinue reading “Why Gay Dating is Hard”

**SPOILER ALERT: ‘Big Mouth” on Nextflix. Season 1 now available to watch*** When it comes to sexual education around young adults and puberty, there are a plethora of movies and resources; however, I would argue that many of those resources are not sex positive, lack essential details on navigating puberty, and focus on heteronormative assumptions.Continue reading “The Hormone Monster: How Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ Offers an Intelligent Insight into Puberty”

I find it so hard to believe that October is upon us–2017 is quickly coming to an end but not before we take time to celebrate LGBT History Month. So you may be asking yourself, what is LGBT history month? Why is LGBT history important? Is there even such thing as LGBT history? According toContinue reading “LGBT History Month 2017”

On July 26, 2017, Trump posted via his Twitter account, that the Military would no longer allow transgender individuals to serve our country (Twitter photo below). According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), this would mean that roughly 15,000 transgender individuals would be affected by this mandate (Peters, 2017). However, the current tweets reflect comingContinue reading “Transgender Military Ban: What Does This Mean?”

On June 10th, I attended my first ever DC Pride. I am rather introverted and tend to feel uneasy in large crowds; however, as I quickly approaching my 30th birthday (as in next month), I thought it was time to finally attend my first ever Pride. While I reside in Philadelphia, I chose to attendContinue reading “My Experience at DC Pride”

My employment history has been extremely rocky in the past 4 years. I owe that a lot to the fact that I completed my undergrad and graduate degree at the same institution. I wasn’t extremely prepared to transition away from the place I had been at for 7 years and as a result, I haveContinue reading “When Your Employer is Constantly Passing you Over: Change the Game”

Recently a friend of mine came out to his family and things definitely didn’t go as planned. He had great hopes that his parents would be understanding and accepting but so far he’s received a lot of confusion, shock, and anger. While he is trying to decipher all of this, he still has to deal withContinue reading “Coming Out is a Process”

Kristen Tea (certified wellness coach, author, and administer/owner of the popular MotherWise blog and Facebook page) recently posted on her FaceBook page a very popular quote that has gone viral. Here is her infamous quote: When I first read this, I felt so many emotions–excitement, empowerment, validation, anger, heard, and included;  these are few thatContinue reading “A Privileged Lens: Staying Out of Politics”

I came across a funny cartoon last year from The Oatmeal, entitled “At The Gym: Whom Is Looking at Whom.” I think the cartoon still holds a lot of relevance as we think about body envy and internalized hate. I know I constantly suffer with body image issues and I enjoyed the humor and relevance fromContinue reading “At The Gym”