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Every family has skeletons in the closet. Sometimes the closet is a shelf in a van-turned-home for seven people and sometimes that skeleton is eating half a loaf of bread for dinner. What really happens to kids when their parents have a mental illness?

Gender equality is strongly promoted in Canada today, but the experiences of child-free women indicate that women are still not equal to men.

“BuT iNfOmErCiAlS aRe FuLl Of LiEs AnD cRaP!” you say. Yet they exist. They must work, right? Do they only sell crap? It’s time to put them to the test. Come on a tour of the infomercial universe, starting with Vince’s nuts.

Memory is a fleeting thing, rife with inaccuracy. These events are as true as my brain allows. Some names have been changed to protect the ridiculous.

Can the internet be used to create tangible change? Or does it only encourage people to tweet hashtags from the comfort of their couches? Manitoba Youth for Climate Action is an activist group in Winnipeg, using social media to engage with other activists who are worried about their future. But how does it translate into offline change?

After years of prayer and soul-searching, I decided to live my truth for everyone to see.

“Dear God, I’m gay, please watch over me.”

How can you be gay and straight at the same time? See how a not-so-closeted boy kept his sexuality a secret from his family.

When Sarah’s intrusive thoughts became unbearable, she isolated herself from their triggers, including her family.

Coming out is hard, a lot harder than we sometimes let on. As much progress as the LGBT2SQ+ community has made in the last decade, the fear, anxiety, and pressure is all too real. We need normalization. Let’s talk about coming out.