‘I constantly got reprimanded for dancing at parties, people called me boy-girl and eventually I just stopped because everyone said that’s not how men should behave including my family.’-Malik, 24 I had a chat with Malik, a 24-year-old queer, effeminate man on his…

The article is focused on Nottingham as that’s where I’ve really done house hunting but the concepts are general and apply to most areas in England. Honestly, house hunting in Nottingham is not for the weak minded, you have to just be prepared…

Valentine’s is right around the corner and except for the beautiful and cheesy Valentine’s dates my girls and I have planned together, I’ve never had a romantic Valentine’s date. Nobody has ever serenaded me or done anything particularly special for me, sometimes this…

There’s an incredible amount of shame that comes with therapy, mental illness and not being okay. Before we can heal collectively as a society, we need to come to a point where we can comfortably speak on our struggles without feeling isolated or…

“Lonely, ain’t it?Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” ― Toni Morrison, Sula This year, it’s only about 6 of us that they didn’t propose to, and…

Why I went to therapy: Fauzia’s story “The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health…

“Being honest about how we feel doesn’t make us weak — it makes us human.”-Sangu Delle In the African community, the stigma against therapy is something else. When you tell the traditional African you’re in therapy, it comes with so much antagonism. There’s…

Maybe I’m too liberal for my own good, but I love it so much when people show the human angle to people who lead different lifestyles.