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- “I’m happy because I know who I am”
- “How to kill a trans person”
- “Privilege, or how I’m learning to start thinking and hate white men”
- “I’ve decided to accept the label of pansexual”
- “Lesbian sex: Everything to put everywhere!”
- “My trans allies are anything but”
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- “My sexuality is my business”
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- “PC gone mad?”
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- “the last stigmas”
- “confetti started to fall”
- “the sheer assault of what message these words conveyed”
- “I didn’t know what it was causing the agonising pain”
- “they’re not as distasteful as having a life-threatening illness”
- “Coming out as disabled”
- “untitled” Deafblind mutterings
- “My day to day life with Aspergers”
- “The Spoon Theory”
- “A Limbess Perspective”
- “I didn’t consider myself disabled”
- “How to shake a disabled person’s hand
- “People assume”
- “Through a glass darkly – Living with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and aspergers Syndrome (AS)”
- “Living with a stammer”
- “What happens in my head when you spell things out to me”
- “I couldn’t date you as my friends would laugh”
- “what it’s actually like to be autistic”
- “The individual is the expert”
- “Being told I was going blind was like having my heart ripped out”
- “The Reality of an Autistic Person”
- “Why don’t dyslexics just use spell checkers?”
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- “I started having issues with my body when I was a child”
- “How to be a good friend to crazyfolk”
- “My ‘journey’ on antidepressants”
- “It Could Never Happen To Me”
- “there are people around you to help”
- “How mental health has affected my studies”
- “Please be patient”
- “I don’t know if I am getting better or worse with them”
- “maybe anti-depressant medication could help”
- “It does get better”
- “I have razors in the post”
- “I can’t seem to distract myself from worries and obsession”
- “Schizo Knock-Back”
- ” The difference between giving in and starting anew”
- “I do consider ending my life”
- “It is a serious issue of feeling safe”
- “How lucky I am to still be here”
- “Don’t go any further”
- “It’s not our fault, it’s our burden”
- “Go to your GP. There is help. Right?”
- “Each flashback is a battle”
- “there is hope”
- “My Silent Undoing”
- “Don’t judge me…?”
- “I found the courage to discuss it”
- “On the Borderline of what?”
- “Trigger Subjects”
- “What’s cold, white and unstable? A Bi-Polar Bear”
- “If I died, it would not be anorexia that tore my family apart: it would be me”
- “When I say I’m feeling low, stop offering to buy me a shot”
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- “I could not walk down my street without looking over my shoulder”
- “coming out as a feminist”
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- “You didn’t thank me for punching you in the face”
- “Rape fantasy, not reality”
- “Orgasms – everywhere, except my bedroom”
- “Women and wanking”
- “Experiences of being a fat woman”
- “Not in my nature”
- “mess up + angered father = beating”
- “I find wolf whistling offensive and intimidating”
- “I spent most of my teenage years worrying about the way that I looked”
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- “The Staring Game”
- “How to spot a black woman”
- “Where are you from?”
- “I was informed that I do not qualify as Black”
- “Anti semitism is still racism”
- “Writing Angry!”
- “British?”
- “Double standards in liberation”
- “Racism and cocktails”
- “It is clear the murder was driven by Islamophobia and racism”
- “Because…”
- “Racial prejudices still lurks in our everyday lives”
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- “I trusted him”
- “this wasn’t how it should be”
- “I have waited 8 years”
- “There are no excuses”
- “Why I didn’t and won’t report my rape”
- “For years I didn’t think of myself as someone who had been assaulted”
- “It’s trigger warning week”
- “How my rapist walked free”
- “Rape Rape: What nobody’s telling you”
- “Arguing about rape on the internet”
- “Taken from me”
- “I’m a Survivor”
- “To all those men who don’t think the rape jokes are a problem”
- “I once was a victim for sure, but now I’m a survivor”
- “Three times”
- “Learning to say stop”
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Welcome to LiberateYourself!
The aim of this website is to decrease ignorance, prejudice and stigma; we believe that the best way to do this is through education. If you’ve grown up being told one thing and are surrounded by quite similar individuals who all think in the same way it’s sometimes hard to understand others’ experiences. This website provides you with the space to explore a huge variety of lifestyles and people from the comfort and safety of your own computer: it is as interactive as possible and gives you the opportunity to engage and ask questions about issues that maybe you’d never thought about before or just dismissed as not being important or relevant to you.
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We are trying to evaluate the work that the website does and would really appreciate you taking out 10 minutes to tell us what you think. Thanks! http://
Latest updates:
- "I started having issues with my body when I was a child"
- "How to be a good friend to crazyfolk"
- 'Being Fat and Looking Trans'
- "I trusted him"
LiberateYourself is a constantly developing website – keep checking back for more information, stories or resources. If you would like to comment about or add anything to the website please don’t hesitate to send an email to: hannah.paterson@nus.org.uk with the title ‘Liberate Yourself’
Within the website you can explore and interact with issues impacting on
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer students
Please feel free to potter about the website in your own time and space and engage with the various debates.
Some pages on this website may be triggering to you depending on your personal life experiences. We strive to put warnings on any page which contains triggering material. If we have missed anything, we would very much appreciate being contacted about it to make sure our website is accessible as possible for people who need trigger warnings.
I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to all those who have been willing to share their stories, experiences and thoughts for the website; with special thanks going to Sophie Koonin who made the website a reality (and very pretty!) and Jennie O’Hara for coming to the rescue when I needed some help.
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