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My name is Maddy and I am a woman. Beautifully imperfect and proudly trans, I use she/her pronouns. And, like all of us, I can only share my own experiences and try to give you a better understanding of whom I am as a person in this world. These essays are hard to write, as…
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Y’all know what June is: Pride! And while we at Sexual + Being are loud and proud every day of the year, it’s always nice when warm weather rolls around and the community gets together to celebrate. This year, as the pandemic (hopefully) winds down, felt particularly special as the LGBTQIA+ emerged from a year…
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When I say I identify as a “man of trans experience” during one of my trainings, I can feel the questions from my attendees before they get a chance to ask them aloud: Is he dating a transgender person? Does he think he’s a woman? Is he considering the surgery? There is a reason I…
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Nothing tests a new marriage quite like spending roughly 90-95% of your time together. Add in a historic breakdown of our democracy and the highest unemployment rates since 1948, and it becomes easy to see how the pandemic caused a spike in global divorce and breakup rates. While we’ve had our fair share of stress…
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For Pride Month this year, Sexual + Being commissioned pieces from four different people about how they feel about the LGBTIA+ identifiers that most closely align with their identities. This is the first, L: Lesbian. Back in the ‘90s, we’d line in rows: one for boys and one for girls. Already, first grade, even then,…
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I sat at my desk reading over the email. “Happy Women’s History Month! We would love to interview you about what it means to be a woman in the world of pornography.” It wasn’t the first time that I had been interviewed about pornography. After nearly 20 years of working in the realm of erotic…
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Sex, much like life, can be unpredictable. A one-night stand that wasn’t the safest. A condom that breaks in the middle of all your fun. Hell, you might just not have the proper protection at the right time. There’s no shame in a slip-up as long as you take the appropriate measures to get tested…
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This is a realization about life that I have found through trans-ness, and that I would recommend to anyone: That we are all just making ourselves up, every single day, for ourselves and for others. That it is possible to write and rewrite yourself, to play and fuss and tweak, to sand and strip and…
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From virtual graduation celebrations to birthday parties, COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the joy that people are sharing and experiencing with each other. The same motivation to organize, bond, and network in the digital space goes with Pride this June. This month there are a variety of Pride events and activities that you can participate in to…
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The holiday season is often billed as the most wonderful time of the year, but that can be a hard sell for some in the LGBTQ+ community. Whether estranged or disconnected from family, or forced back in the closet on a trip home, many queer people find the holidays to be filled with more dread…
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