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Nonbinary Notebook: A Starting Place

I am 45 years old. A first-generation immigrant. A person with chronic and sometimes disabling illnesses. I am non-binary gender and queer.

Aug 13, 2022

Nonbinary Notebook: A Starting Place

Aug 13, 2022

JY Bartlett

What you’re really saying when you don’t use someone’s pronouns

The isolation of the pandemic has had few blessings for me. It’s been an earthquake, causing upheaval as the opposing needs of connection…

Oct 2, 2022

What you’re really saying when you don’t use someone’s pronouns

Oct 2, 2022

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Nonbinary Notebook: Finding the perfect nonbinary name

Names are funny, yet important things. They signify so much.

Sep 18, 2022

Nonbinary Notebook: Finding the perfect nonbinary name

Sep 18, 2022

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Nonbinary Notebook: How did you tell people you’re trans?

There’s no one right way to let the people in your life you’re transgender.

Aug 26, 2022

Nonbinary Notebook: How did you tell people you’re trans?

Aug 26, 2022

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The power in creating the boxes for yourself that fit you

Labels and boxes are funny things. Some people find comfort in knowing where they stand and where they fit. Others resist having…

Jul 29, 2022

The power in creating the boxes for yourself that fit you

Jul 29, 2022

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Questioning your conditioning: what you’ve been taught about yourself might not be true

When I was a teenager, I had a bumper sticker on the back of my first car, a Honda Accord hatchback, that said: Question Authority

Jun 9, 2022

Questioning your conditioning: what you’ve been taught about yourself might not be true

Jun 9, 2022

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Allow parts of yourself to lay fallow until their season comes again

Not everything grows all the time. Sunflowers don’t grow in Oregon winters. And oranges don’t ripen in Florida until there’s a cold snap…

Apr 25, 2022

Allow parts of yourself to lay fallow until their season comes again

Apr 25, 2022

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Being enough on the special days of the year

As a child, I remember believing there were two days of the year I was guaranteed to cry: Christmas and my birthday.

Feb 22, 2022

Being enough on the special days of the year

Feb 22, 2022

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Cultivating Gratitude for a Happier, Healthier Life

Gratitude is good for you.

Jan 4, 2022

Cultivating Gratitude for a Happier, Healthier Life

Jan 4, 2022

JY Bartlett

How do you know what you’re feeling?

How are you feeling right now? Can you name it?

Dec 6, 2021

How do you know what you’re feeling?

Dec 6, 2021

JY Bartlett

JY Bartlett

Pronouns: they/them. Award-winning writer, author and teacher on overcoming adversity and learning to trust yourself. www.jybartlett.com

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