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Gender Identity & self esteem

Below are the best resources we could find on Gender Identity and self esteem.

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I Am

To capture the evolving ways in which we describe ourselves, we asked readers to tell us who they are. More than 5,000 people responded. The words they used show us that ‘the human experience is infinite.’

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All Boys Aren’t Blue

This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer.

George M. Johnson

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Starving In Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming an Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action.

Marissa LaRocca

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Welcome to Body Week

We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.

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Have We Underestimated the Harm Caused by Low Self-Esteem?

Low self-esteem is the prime driver of self-harm among gay and lesbian students.

Christopher Bergland

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Why Do So Many Gay and Bisexual Men Struggle With Body Image?

What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.

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