This section covers race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, growing up, understanding the self and more.
Quinn Rhodes writes about the marketing of menstrual cups which has led to the belief that they are the most ‘feminist’ option for people with periods, and how this can make people feel who don't — or can’t — use them.
"There was no word in my vocabulary for how I felt. I just knew I didn’t want to be a girl. But I didn’t want to be a boy either. I just wished that I could be me. With no strings attached. But this didn't align with what I had been told every Sunday at church."
"I wanted to help people, but I was forgetting what that looked like. I found myself asking the same question repeatedly: had I been looking after the most important asset to this cause, my own health?", asks Beauty Dhlamini.
Haaniyah Angus writes about how integral university and education was to her identity and mental health, and what graduating from it all now means for her.
Tallulah Belassie-Page shares her experiences of the emotional burden that women often find themselves carrying for men as the 'unbridled listener'.
Joanna Sing writes about the harmful 'cute' stereotype, and how the Western media have played their part in creating an imaginary ESEA woman to be measured against.
