Natalie Slaughter

It's okay to dump your friends — even friends who have been there for you in the past. Remember today that you deserve good things and good people.

[N]o one held my molester down and called the police for what he did to me. He was quietly escorted away, and over the course of a few months, the whispers of support turned into accusations.

At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.

Is anything keeping you from believing that you deserve good things?

A polyamorous relationship is like any other relationship — you set rules and sometimes you hit bumps along the way, but everyone involved knows what is and isn’t acceptable.

Because you only get one shot at life.

Even a Google search will conflate “queer women” with “lesbian.” So the first and most obvious thing I wish people understood about being a queer woman, is that we exist.