By Zachary Zane — 2019
But being your authentic self is now more important than ever.
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Out pro wrestler Logan Black found the response to his coming out ‘overwhelming in the best way.’
At 25, Harnaam Kaur holds the world record as the youngest woman to have a full beard. For years, she was bullied. Now she’s an Instagram star.
For LGBTQ youth in particular, the Internet can be a refuge—a safe place to feel less alone. For queer youth to feel normal, they need to see, read and hear the voices of others who look like them and use the same identifying labels.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
What it’s like coming out as a black man when people see it as a ‘white thing.’
Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important
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We all want more well-being in our lives.
“If on the day I die I can say, ‘To the best of my ability—cutting myself some slack for my human flaws and fallibilities—I was faithful to my gifts, to the world’s needs as I saw them,’ then I can take my final breath with a feeling of satisfaction that I showed up on earth with what I had...
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Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.