Sex education is a crucial part of growing up and navigating our sexuality. However, traditional sex education typically only covers cisgender, heterosexual relationships, leaving out vital information for those who identify as queer. …

May 24th is Pansexual and Panromantic Visibility Day! It’s an important opportunity for us to raise awareness and promote the visibility of individuals who identify as pansexual or panromantic. But what do these terms mean exactly? While everyone has a different relationship to their identity, pansexuality is generally considered attraction…

Internalized homophobia and transphobia are two common issues that LGBTQIA+ folks often face, which can lead to a wide range of negative psychological and emotional consequences. Internalized homophobia refers to the negative feelings, beliefs, and attitudes that LGBTQIA+ people hold toward themselves as a result of societal discrimination and stigma. …

If you’ve got a vagina, you’ve likely played the “pee, blood, or discharge” game. There’s so much stigma around the fluids that come out of a vagina that there’s a whole industry built around convincing people that they’re dirty if it doesn’t smell like roses down there. …

What Even Is Queer Sex? The phrase “queer sex” can refer to a wide range of sex acts that deviate from conventional cisgender and heterosexual expectations. Or, more broadly, queer sex is any sex that queer people are having. Queer sex can be seen as an act that subverts social norms and interrogates our ideas…

There are so many reasons to have sex — pleasure, stress relief, fostering closeness and intimacy, expressing love…the list goes on. But there is also evidence that sex could also support your immune response. A win-win, no? Sex Helps Reduce Cortisol Levels Cortisol is a stress-inducing hormone that can cause anxiousness and stress to shoot…

Happy 2023! So much of the rhetoric around celebrating a new year is based on productivity and diet culture. Hustle harder, go on a cleanse, lose weight, be the best version of you. This mindset often leaves us drained, and we give up on our resolutions two weeks into January. …

By Krista White What Are Queerplatonic Relationships? First coined by asexual and aromantic people, queerplatonic is an umbrella term for relationships that are not romantic, but more emotionally intimate than those we typically associate with friendships. People in queerplatonic relationships may raise children together, share finances or a household, or even get legally married…

TL;DR 📚 What: STI caused by infection with Trichomonas vaginalis (a protozoan parasite) Type of infection: Acute, curable Symptoms: Burning after peeing or ejaculating, discharge from the penis, itching, burning, redness or soreness of the genitals, or a clear, white, yellowish, or greenish vaginal discharge (i.e., …