By Natalie Escobar — 2018
A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.
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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.
Out pro wrestler Logan Black found the response to his coming out ‘overwhelming in the best way.’
“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.
Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.