No Shame. Period!
"I don’t know where I learned to be ashamed. I just knew, like how we know what hunger is before we learn the word to describe it....
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SAFIGI
- Sep 12, 2021
- 4 min
DARK SKINNED; Beautiful just as you are!
Photo Credit: Shuttershock I started hating myself for my own skin color; I was looking for something which I could never get: fair skin....
SAFIGI
- May 17, 2020
- 5 min
AIN'T I A WOMAN?
This story was written by Ashley Dye from the USA. If I had a dollar for the innumerable times I have been called or referred to as ‘he’,...
SAFIGI
- Apr 30, 2020
- 5 min
WE ALL HAVE A NEED FOR SOCIAL BELONGING, BUT WE CAN CHOOSE OURSELVES
This story was written by William Calhoun from the USA. Our lives are filled with stories—stories we hear from our parents, from our...
SAFIGI
- Apr 19, 2020
- 4 min
DON'T BE TOO HARSH ON YOURSELF.
This story was written by Flavia Bueno from BRAZIL. I am Flavia Regina Bueno, a 27 year old Brazilian Ph.D. Student, and I am here to...
SAFIGI
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
SPEAK UP AND STOP BULLYING!
This story was written by Mukhamat Anwar from INDONESIA. Bullying exists in our society. Physical and psychological violence victims can...
SAFIGI
- May 27, 2018
- 5 min
SHOW YOUR POWER! SURVIVOR FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
This story was written by Daniela from the USA. Fear? Only the silence. Since I can remember, my house had always been a violent place. I...
SAFIGI
- May 20, 2018
- 3 min
LEARN TO LOVE YOURSELF EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE DOES
This story was written by Adriana from PERU, via UN Online Volunteers. I am 18 years old and I live in Lima, Peru. I consider myself to...
SAFIGI
- May 18, 2018
- 2 min
RELIGION IS A PART OF WHO I AM, I WILL NOT BE ASHAMED OF IT
This story was written by Luanna Hedler from BRAZIL. Respect is key, especially when it comes to religion. My parents are not extremely...
SAFIGI
- May 13, 2018
- 5 min
DON'T ALTER MY LIFE, ALTER THE MALE GAZE
This story was written by Maliha Mohiuddin from the USA. “She did it again! How does she get up there?” my uncle’s wife looked perplexed...
SAFIGI
- May 6, 2018
- 3 min
TAKING ANTIDEPRESSANTS IS NOT A WEAKNESS!
This story was written by Hannah Ribbens from the USA. I have always wanted to be in the military. It has interested me for years, and I...
SAFIGI
- May 3, 2018
- 4 min
EFFECTS OF PAST AND PRESENT RACISM SHAPE OUR DAILY LIVES
This story was written by Kumsa Yuya from CANADA. Whether or not we are conscious of it, from birth we are being socialized. This process...
SAFIGI
- Apr 26, 2018
- 4 min
I DID NOT LET BULLIES DEFINE MY FUTURE.
This story was written by Olivia Dufour from the USA. My story starts all too similarly to the stories of young girls around the world:...
SAFIGI
- Apr 23, 2018
- 4 min
RESPECT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN FEAR OF BEING LABELLED!
This story was written by Selene Cruz from MEXICO. At 22 years old and fresh out of college, most young adults out there are embarking...
SAFIGI
- Apr 15, 2018
- 3 min
DEPRESSION TOOK A LOT FROM ME BUT I'M TAKING MY LIFE BACK
This story was written by Debalina Roy from INDIA. I want to share a sense of overwhelming pain that had a debilitating effect in my...
SAFIGI
- Apr 12, 2018
- 4 min
I SHOULD NOT BE SHAMED FOR MY THIN BODY!
This story was written by Ananya De from INDIA. I have faced a variety of body shaming, sometimes subtle and sometimes direct. There were...
SAFIGI
- Apr 12, 2018
- 4 min
DO NOT CHANGE YOURSELF JUST TO FIT IN!
This story was written by Nurul Nadhira from MALAYSIA. Back when I was younger, I used to have trouble wearing hijab. I was quite young...
SAFIGI
- Apr 8, 2018
- 3 min
RECLAIM THE NARRATIVE FOR YOUR HAPPINESS
This story was written by Gaurav Ganti from INDIA. I was 13, when I first noticed the small clump of hair in my hand as I took a shower....
SAFIGI
- Apr 5, 2018
- 3 min
GRADES DO NOT DEFINE A PERSON
This story was written by Vyshakh from INDIA. When my twelfth grade results came, I was terrified to find out that I got very low marks...
SAFIGI
- Apr 1, 2018
- 3 min
MARRIAGE CAN WAIT, DREAMS DON'T!
This story was written by Shucheesmita Simonti from BANGLADESH. I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2011, I got ICCR scholarship to pursue...
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