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![A thank you to gal-dem’s contributors](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Closing-Collage-Header.png)
A thank you to gal-dem’s contributors
gal-dem staff
![Goodbye from gal-dem](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Closing-Header-v2-1.png)
Goodbye from gal-dem
gal-dem staff
![Against the binary: imagining a future of holding my chest high](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image_6483441-2.jpg)
Against the binary: imagining a future of holding my chest high
Yas Necati
![Queeries: is my marriage over?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/queeries-relationship.png)
Queeries: is my marriage over?
Aisha Mirza
![Desirability and survival: for some Black women, slimness equals safety](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/jessica-wilson.png)
Desirability and survival: for some Black women, slimness equals safety
Jessica Wilson, MS., RD.
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![Growing up as a Black girl from Pyongyang](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/bgfp-extract-.png)
Growing up as a Black girl from Pyongyang
Monica Macias
![Sorry for the FOMO but here’s what gal-dem members are up to this month](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/memberships-fomo-4-1.png)
Sorry for the FOMO but here’s what gal-dem members are up to this month
gal-dem staff
![What would it look like if we put people before cars?](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/car-free-cities-min.png)
What would it look like if we put people before cars?
Hirra Khan Adeogun
![‘A historian, babysitter, sat-nav’: everything I learned as a tour guide in Kyoto](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/kyoto-breaks.jpg)
‘A historian, babysitter, sat-nav’: everything I learned as a tour guide in Kyoto
Florentyna Leow
![Against the binary: finding home in my intergenerational queer family](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/against-the-binary-feb.png)
Against the binary: finding home in my intergenerational queer family
Yas Necati
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![How reconnecting with my Vietnamese heritage led me to write a novel](https://gal-dem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cecile-Pin.jpg)
How reconnecting with my Vietnamese heritage led me to write a novel
Cecile Pin
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