A letter to my eating disorder, I believe it is time we had a chat, and no, not that kind. It’s time that I tell you all the things that I’ve been holding onto and time for me to draw a line in the sand. I’ve tried so hard to…

My mother’s passing hit me hard that fall and changed everything. I found myself feeling dampened. Muted. Numb. Deadened. In a world full of flavor I felt as though I had lost my ability to taste. Or worse, that I could, and yet somehow the enchantments of life just didn’t…

Author’s Note: This is an essay written for a Psychology: Human Sexuality course that I took this fall. This essay can be read as a further researched, in-depth extension on the Pedocriminality: Why We Should Stop Using the Word Pedophilia When Discussing Childhood Sexual Abuse article written in June. Edited…

If you follow me on Instagram, it’s no secret that I am an avid pole dancer. However, it was only recently that I shared my experience of being genderqueer or nonbinary with my followers. …

Introduction As a target of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), I spent a lot of my adolescence reading and researching sexual violence specifically against children. I read countless articles, statistics, diagnostic criteria…

Author’s Note: In the wake of the unacceptably unjust murder of George Floyd at the hands of two police officers in Minneapolis, I have decided to publish an academic essay that I wrote a few years ago in a Race and Ethnic Studies class I took in high school. While…

Author’s Note: This article delves into the topic of the sexual fetishization and exotification of specifically Eastern Asian (countries such as Japan, China, North and South Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia) women as requested by a friend of mine. In choosing to speak with a focus on women I, by no…

Don’t Touche Me: Rape Culture and its Role in Perpetuating Sexual Violence Against Female Presenting Persons Author’s Note: Sexual violence is a complicated, multilayered concept that is widespread and is considered to be one of the most traumatic, pervasive, and most common human rights violations. In this article, I will…

Don’t Touch Me: Safety in Public Spaces as a Female Presenting Person Author’s Note: Part 1 discusses my first experience with sexual aggression while at an LGBT specific event at a night club in Paris. Part 2 will open a discussion about the different types of sexual violence, rape culture…