Personal Stories First and Last: Notes on Adoption and Names
A series of vignettes on names given, chosen, and changed.
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Personal Stories 
Family “All White,” All Hers: Rebuilding My Adoption Story
Katie Klabusich on how she finally learned the whole truth about her adoption origin story, and how it explained so many things about her childhood.
LGBT Chrysalis: Transitioning and My Trans Identity
Colette Arrand on the experience of transitioning.
Family Language Lessons: On Adoption, Identity and Loss
On the beginning study of a language, navigating a complicated identity, parenting as an adoptee, and grasping at things lost to adoption.
Race Growing Into My Racial Identity
Kaylen Sanders on a lifetime of trying to understand her racial identity.
Symmetry in Our Misshapenness: On Learning How to Belong
The author on coming to terms with her identity as a first-generation Pakistani Canadian.
Race The Haircut
The author on why he cut his afro, and how he felt about it at the time.
Family When God and Your Mom Think You’re Awesome
D.L. Mayfield on her Christian punk rock teenage years.
Race Misfits: Reflections on Identity, Race, and Prejudice
The author on her experiences as an immigrant and how she must navigate her identity amid prejudice.
Feminism On Hebrew and Living in Gendered Language
The author reflects on the use of gender in the Hebrew language, and the challenges it presents for women and genderqueer people in Israel.
Family The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White
Dahlia Grossman-Heinze on the distance between how she is often perceived and who she is.
LGBT Leveling Up For Dummies
The author considers his habit of choosing heroines and female characters when playing video games, and how that connects to his own queer male identity.
Humor Me, IRL
Jaya Saxena on her IRL identity, including "A boy falling off his bike who is really skeptical of Uber."
Race Wave My Freak Flag High: Afrofuturism, Imagination, and Impostor Syndrome
Inda Lauryn on afrofuturism and how it helps her imagine and become who she wants to be.
Politics Hi, My Name is Heather and I’m a Recovering Lobbyist
Heather Barmore on her career as a lobbyist, and what it was like when it was over.
