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About Astrid Fender

Astrid is a poet and writer from Montreal, Canada. She bases her work on personal experiences and the hope of helping others one word at a time. You can find her at @itstheotherastrid

“I’m done wearing grey-colored glasses.” A note of hope from our contributor Astrid, currently in Italy.

Well, this is one I never thought I'd even begin to type. When I left nearly four months ago on my big adventure, I never expected once I would find myself stuck in the middle of one of the worst hit-countries of a global pandemic- [...]

By |March 23rd, 2020|Categories: Empowerment|Comments Off on “I’m done wearing grey-colored glasses.” A note of hope from our contributor Astrid, currently in Italy.

Sexual arousal and shame

Sexual arousal and shame: early beginnings I remember when I was a kid my parents bought a book explaining sex to my older sister. I would steal it and read it in secret, then I would get aroused at the images of the naked body [...]

By |January 7th, 2020|Categories: Sex|Comments Off on Sexual arousal and shame

How I stopped chasing love and learnt to love myself instead

I didn’t grow up feeling loved, or complete, or beautiful. Like many of us, I grew up questioning what love was, watching toxic versions of it playing in front of my eyes like a fucked-up movie. I was left with such a twisted version of [...]

By |December 26th, 2019|Categories: Love stuff|Comments Off on How I stopped chasing love and learnt to love myself instead