communication

The minute I tell someone my salacious thoughts and needs, sex becomes far too personal. I don’t want my sexual partners to know me, I just want them to f*** me.

She was twenty-five. Why did it feel as if her life had passed her by?

Good consent requires prioritizing the feelings of our partners and ourselves, and having open dialogue when people express that they felt uncomfortable, disrespected or violated.

It took me 20 years to want my culture back. A culture I had so actively sought to lose since middle school. 

There is no desire to prod past the surface of a loved one’s well-being, and slowly, we become strangers.

Recently I found myself without a phone. The past several days I've been getting around experiencing the unexpected highs and lows of no longer being wireless.

Everyone is scared of doing what they truly want — especially the "bad" — or entering their “villain era,” as people may call it. But the truth is, as much as life requires us to be the hero, it also requires us to be the so-called “villain.” 

Knowing that I'm a homebody who prefers the familiar, you’d think I would’ve done a better job at keeping in touch with my childhood friends.

My story is not only shaped by spoken conversations or dramatic monologues, but also by my innermost thoughts and the millions of things that tumble through my mind and never leave my mouth.

It's important to note that we choose as our go-to communication style says a lot about who we are and how we hold our relationships.