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KC Hoard

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'I gave life': How traditional adoption fosters identity and belonging

'I gave life': How traditional adoption fosters identity and belonging

Crystal Charlie has two moms thanks to an adoption practice used by Indigenous people for millenia.

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Carly Rae Jepsen sang the soundtrack of my first gay love

Carly Rae Jepsen sang the soundtrack of my first gay love

Somewhere between the lyrics and catchy harmony, I fell in love

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‘Saw’ was my sexual awakening

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By KC Hoard 
| Xtra Magazine
Violence was the central theme of the middle-school sleepovers I shared with my best friend, Brendan. The highlight of our night was seeing who would lose a limb first. We would wrestle between hours-long Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto binges, drunk off Mountain Dew. At school, we were nice boys with good grades and few friends. We both played alto saxophone in band and led school plays and were well liked by our teachers for our polite dispositions.
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‘Survivor’ helped me climb a volcano

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By KC Hoard 
| Xtra Magazine
About a month ago, I woke up before dawn in a fevered panic. I had slept through my alarm and my flight from Toronto to Guatemala was leaving in an hour. Within minutes I was in an Uber, wired despite the lack of caffeine in my system. Soon a new panic settled in—I’d left my luggage at home. I pleaded with my driver to speedily return to my place, and when he got there, I ran in and grabbed my bags and hopped back into the car.
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Robyn made me dump my toxic ex-boyfriend

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By KC Hoard 
| Xtra Magazine
When Robyn’s best album, Honey, came out in the fall of 2018, I’d ensnared myself in a messy homosexual web. My best friend, Sarah, was in a toxic lesbian relationship with my toxic boyfriend’s best friend. (Give that sentence another read—I know the details are confusing, but it will help to have them straight.) Sarah and I were 20-year-old university students, and neither of us had been part of a queer couple before. We thought our first gay relationships would be affirming and liberating.
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