I always loved dancing since I was a child. Despite my severe shyness and self consciousness about my body, weight and size - I loved how...

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“And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be FREE!” - Post-Civil War African-American freedom...

He handed me the phone and said, "Here Jen, talk to her." "Hello??" I said. I sat on the toilet in the dark crying hysterically. I don't...

I was 14 years old and loved Def Leppard and Guns & Roses. I was good at art, math, making jewelry and blow jobs. I drank beer, purple...

I was a shy child. I always felt awkward and an outcast. I was fat, Native American, Mexican, Buddhist, only child, had a messy house and...

I was barefoot in jeans and a t-shirt. I had spent the entire night at the police station being questioned about my life and I told them...

I was awake staring into the darkness of the hot humid night. The pressure started to sink down and press upon my chest. Thoughts racing...