Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost about phrases they try to avoid in their own relationships.

Anyone who has once considered themself to be a woman or is currently a woman could tell you that everyone seems to have a specific idea of who or what a woman is and should be. However, in reality, in as many ways as there are different ideals of what a woman should be, there are also a million and a half ways we’re told we “fail” at being a woman.

Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Kelsey Borresen at HuffPost about some sex questions you probably haven't asked your partner, but should.

Springtime invites us to have patience with ourselves during these challenging moments, and shows us that just as flowers will bloom after an unexpected cold front or night of frost, we too can blossom after unexpected obstacles and challenges.

If you’ve experienced complex trauma, it’s common to gravitate toward one or two of the survival strategies in your overall behavior and while forming your worldview. These strategies were likely developed in order to navigate and survive the lack of love, abuse, neglect, and other childhood pain that you did not have control over.

There are many ways to explore kink on your own, they can include masturbation but don’t always. Ask yourself how you want to feel and what you want to experience before starting any new form of kink play.

While there are infinite ways to be queer, and we hope that our queer communities would be places to celebrate all of those identities, in reality it’s not always so. Straight trans people or bisexual people with partners of other genders, or nonbinary people who aren’t quite sure how they relate to other queer identities, among others may all be vulnerable to experiencing this queer imposter syndrome. So what can we do about it?

From beginning to search for a therapist to beginning your work with a therapist, below are some tips from someone on the other side of the therapeutic relationship on finding a therapist you love and ensuring sessions prioritize your needs and growth.

Maybe you did not have the emotional availability that you wish you had from them even though you haven’t questioned it much before. What if they inflicted trauma that they are not aware of?

For many of us across the Queer community, the act of finding community isn’t always that easy. Unlike some other marginalized communities, Queer people are not often born into community; instead, it is something we must seek out. So where do we start?

What do you do when you have identified as a monogamous person your whole life and then that begins to come into question?

Queerplatonic partnerships (QPPs) are non-romantic intimate partnerships between two or more people. Who says the most significant love of your life has to be romantic? Queering relationships means thinking critically about where your ideas of what relationships “should” look like according to societal standards, and creating a structure that works for you.

The language of “coming out” implies that by coming out we’re acknowledging that we’re something on the outside of the norm, leaving ourselves open to the judgments & reactions of others within the norm. However, there is another way to understand coming out: you’re allowing yourself to be seen in the truth you already know.

Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Jay Deitcher at HuffPost about whether it’s ever okay to break up with someone online or over text.

Grief is complicated, limitless, and ever changing. It asks us to look at the pain of endings in our lives and cradle it tenderly even in the face of the oppressive systems that demand we work through seasons of loss, painful remembrance, and spiritual exhaustion.

Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Gabrielle Kassel at Women’s Health about the different types of infidelity, and how to recognize and heal from betrayal.