As a single female traveler, I was riding a motorbike up in a remote mountain landscape sprinkled with farms and villages. I ended up on a road under construction, which was terrible. It was close to dusk and there was no reasonable option other than to push through, even if my anxiety was growing exponentially. There was a guy driving in front of me who recognized my dilemma and signed that I should follow his lead.
Read MoreI have been body shamed since I was young, even when people were not using that term yet. Maybe people didn’t know better. But my youth was destroyed by words - the words that people said to me without even knowing themselves.
Read MoreKo Maung Maung’s wife, Ma Seinn, sends the girl from his office something to eat almost twice a week. She does this not only to build a good relationship with them, but also to check on what her husband, Ko Mg Mg, is doing or is planning to do. They usually talk on the phone too.
Read MoreChildhood trauma is something I think many LGBT+ people have experienced. Some people experience more wounds, and some people experience less.
As far as I can remember, I was in the third or fourth grade, around the age when we started going to tuition.
Read MoreI just finished high school. Feeling so free, independent, and thirsting to experience everything the world had to offer me. This was the summer of experiencing new things, of saying yes and seeing where life takes me. I spent the summer traveling, reconnecting with myself and my body after years of depression and self-harm.
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