Throughout my childhood and adolescence, I wore the title of “city girl” with pride. Infact, the brief period of time when I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (a small Amish town, saturated with farmland, on the east coast of America), was almost embarrassing for me to mention as it didn’t fit the image I had of me. Living and identifying with…
While we navigate through the first couple of years of marriage, my husband and I have been making an active effort to communicate more. I’ve learned that you can’t expect someone to read your mind just because they love you, and it takes effort from both partners, especially in areas of communication, to make a relationship work. With that very…
“I found dating apps extremely helpful around the time that I had just come out,” says Raven (name changed), when telling me what it is like to date as a queer individual in India. Raven is an Actor in Mumbai and has been out as queer for 6 years. “Post pandemic I have been trying to date in the real…
The future should be female. You all know this, of course you do! You’ve all read my very extensive breakdown on why the future would be so so much better with more women entrepreneurs and female influence in the workforce. It’s fantastic for the national GDP, after all, a cute little bump of 11-13% in the per capita income of…
It all started with my mental health taking a sharper-than-usual turn for the worse. I was also drained, run down and unusually exhausted. Turns out it was a vitamin deficiency! The “sunshine vitamin ,” Vitamin D, or good old Vit D, is made from the cholesterol in your skin as a response to sunlight. It is a fat-soluble vitamin in…
Many times, people say I don’t get time for myself. There is so much to do. It is not possible.I want to tell you, it’s possible. So let me tell you what me time really means. Me time means being there in the moment with yourself. It can mean anything from spending one minute with yourself before an exam to…
People are animals but not exactly. In fact, we’re actually really bad at being animals. We can’t run very fast. We don’t have fur. We don’t have claws. We don’t have venom or horns or any natural weapons. We couldn’t take most animals in one-on-one combat. Strength-wise, we get body-checked by so many animals that it’s a true wonder we…
I was recently at a wedding where the person at my dinner table casually started chatting with me. As it usually goes, my work came up, which eventually (and naturally) led to the mention of being queer and the LGBTQIA+ community. “It’s just all so confusing,” the cis het male sitting across from me had expressed. According to him, the…
The research for this piece was the best part of writing it. That’s the power of an orgasm. By definition, an orgasm is “…widely regarded as the peak of sexual excitement. It is a powerful feeling of physical pleasure and sensation, which includes a discharge of accumulated erotic tension.” However, while medical professionals utilize the physical changes during the occurrence…
“I had to stop seeing my first therapist because we both reached a point where we knew that she couldn’t help me with my dysphoria, so I started looking for therapists who were Queer affirming,” says Durga Gawde as they explained to me what went into finding a good therapist to help them with trauma related to their body. “Then…
