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First person / Mental health

I self-diagnosed CDS, an attention disorder I’d never heard of

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A backdoor abortion was my only choice. We must decriminalise abortion now

First person

I spent a year as a self-diagnosed autistic. Here’s what I learnt

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Learning to breastfeed for fun, not food

First person / Mental health

I self-diagnosed CDS, an attention disorder I’d never heard of

First person

A backdoor abortion was my only choice. We must decriminalise abortion now

First person

I spent a year as a self-diagnosed autistic. Here’s what I learnt

Learning to breastfeed for fun, not food

Gout isn’t just for men who drink too much — women get it, too

No-one told me about the link between the pill, gut health, and SIBO

I’m non-binary. Here’s my journey with the mini pill

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Learning to adjust my sex life with lupus

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I can’t ‘adult’ due to chronic illness, but I won’t be ashamed

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Queer and PoC-specific therapy is lifesaving, and it taught me to accept myself

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Accepting inverted nipples in a world obsessed with body symmetry

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I had an abortion because of the Home Office — and I’m not alone

Here’s how I’m learning to reframe contraception as a queer experience

Why I sometimes like my chronic pain

No-one warned me about antidepressant withdrawal syndrome

My heart condition was dismissed as me being fat and anxious

Grieving the loss of an unwanted pregnancy

It took two thirds of my life to diagnose me with endometriosis

Being transmasculine in spaces where women fear men

I experience sudden sadness and disconnect after sex

What happened after I got an ‘abnormal’ smear test result

My hypersexuality isn’t ‘sex addiction’, it’s a response to abuse

My UTI nearly killed me

Gynaecology’s obsession with ‘virginity’ fails queer Muslims

Focus on me, not my male partner, when treating my vaginismus

I am a South Asian girl. It’s culture, not religion, that doesn’t value me