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Thailand’s Tom Community Makes Waves in Documentary
Toms: The Complex World of Female Love, a new mini-documentary by Coconuts TV, allows new insight into a sexual identity that is unique to Thailand’s LGBTQQA community. Coconuts TV is a video production team that focuses their pieces on Southeast […]
The global perspective of turning 21: Coming of Age Rituals
More often than not, the day starts with excitement and smiles, but ends in blurred memories and one gigantic headache. Why yes, I am describing the 21st birthday of the average, American young adult. For young men and women in […]
Endometriosis
March is Endometriosis Month. You may have heard this somewhere before but not quite sure what it is really. You may hear it being described as ”bad cramps”. Sometimes, it is the simplest way we can find to describe it, […]
Trini Girl In London – Fear
Fear is an emotion induced by a threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately a change in behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events. (Wikipedia) Forget […]
COLUMN: Trini Girl In London – The Big Day!!! NHC 2014
My head feels as if there is an elephant tap dancing on it. I’m tired. The room is dark and I can hear the rain outside my window. I groan and head to the shower. We sit around wondering what […]
Trini Girl In London…Carnival Sunday – Chocolate Mas
I’m excited! I am up even before my alarm. I’m excited even though I have a cold. I’m all showered and ready to go. Doing some cutting and customising of my t-shirt. For this type of mas, it customary to […]
Sweden Adds Gender-Neutral Pronoun To its Dictionary
The pronoun, “hen,” (pronounced like a female chicken), will join “han” (he) and “hon” (she) as new official gender-neutral pronouns in the Swedish language in the new SAOL. Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) is a glossary published by the Swedish Academy. […]
Trini Girl In London… Suits UK – The NHC Cruise
An infuriating buzzing noise dragged me out of my deep sleep. So irritating. I cracked my eyes open wearily. What could it be? Straining my ears but still trying to hang on to the sweet surrender of sleep, I lift […]