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.

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

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

You can learn to live with the pain, you can move on as I have after over a decade of self-reflection and hard work, but you never, ever get over it.

There’s a lot more to sexuality than meets the eye.

[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.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with loving my body. I don’t have to choose between being fat and beautiful, I can be both.