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““despite the all-encompassing acronym. Though trans youth seek community with cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer teens, they may have to educate their cis peers about what it means to””

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Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary…

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Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.

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In the evening, I use a cleansing oil - coconut oil also works - to remove makeup.

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“she cleaned, scrubbing to the staticky rhythm of Hawaiian music playing from her silver clock radio.”

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Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

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I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white culture where…

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Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our…

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I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the…

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We have to take care of our people. That's our work now. And it's going to be a lot harder than it would have…

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“The misconception of equating ease of life with “passing” must be dismantled in our culture. The work begins by each of us recognizing that…

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This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin…

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“The crux of our conflict lay in the fact that we each couldn't be who we wanted the other to be.”

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I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they're given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case…

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Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical…

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The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!

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When you step up as a young talent, you need to challenge the old lads.

Per Mertesacker

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My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In…

Daniel O'Connell

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“Adolescent youths cry out for us to help them contextualize their life experiences.”

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Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

Chuck Palahniuk

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