Identity Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about identity on BlogRolly.

• Queer And Finally Comfortable — A surprising Threads conversation changed everything. I write about coming out in my 30s, growing up in the 90s when que
• “Things Cis People Don’t Know” — Real talk, I posted a raw, numbered list called Things Cis People Don't Know about transgender experiences. You’ll get b
• SkyMomChronicles- My Path to Purpose and Peace — This was my very first post on SkyMomChronicles. It's an introduction piece. A small glimpse into my mind. The beginning
• From Fear to Freedom — This is a glimpse into the various challenges and habits that can keep us stuck throughout life. Fear, freedom, self-lov
• Breaking the Chains: Uncovering the Roots of Limiting Beliefs — Break free from limiting beliefs and generational conditioning! Discover how societal expectations, historical mindsets,
• Blank Space: embracing being agender — Growing up with a birth certificate that said woman, I lived with a blank space where gender should be. In this personal
• Never real — A line from Thomas Bernhard stopped me cold. In this piece I wrestle with "never real", the second person narrator in Wo
• Ray Briggs on Self-Love and Sin — What happens when Aaron Feltman reimagines Gabrielle d'Estrées for today? I read Ray Briggs on self-love and sin for Aes
• Why Women Should Rethink Their Love of Gay Male Manga
• "Severance", "The Substance", and Our Increasingly Splintered Selves — What makes a single self when memory, body and values split apart? I reprint my New York Times op ed on Severance (Apple
• The Intrinsic Value of Diversity — Could a distant planet help us see why moral diversity matters? I argue moral diversity has intrinsic value, not only in
• I miss Twitter — Why I miss Twitter and why it still hurts. I write about switching to Mastodon and finding a healthier social media rela
• The autistic girls are out there: Losing the gender bias in diagnosing autism
• Neurodiversity and Ableism – a young person’s perspective
• Six Olympians From the Past — Curious where famous Olympians are buried? I dug into Cemetery Club biography notes and cemetery records to trace six at
• Bother the Men! The Grave of Mrs Howard Paul — A knackered Victorian gravestone sent me to Brompton Cemetery. I traced Isabella Hill, better known as Mrs Howard Paul,
• A brief history of "men who have sex with men" — Curious where the phrase men who have sex with men originated? In this post I map its history using Google Books, OED ci
• A world reimagined in Black — A Harvard LLM memory in 1998 sets the scene for my review of Howard French's The Second Emancipation. After tense race c
• The rubble of empire — How should Somalis handle the rubble of empire? In this interview I sit with Claire Dillon to untangle Mogadishu Cathedr
• Returnees — Back in 2018, in Beijing, I photographed young returnees who had studied abroad and were rebuilding life at home. My por
• Back to my name — What’s in a name? My move from Gueorgui back to Gosha tells a Russian immigrant story in France, the passport versus chi
• Red Ink — There was a season where I wasn’t being broken. I was betraying myself in small, quiet ways. Calling it growth, callin
• 57 Genuinely New Names for Girls — These 57 girl names didn’t exist a generation ago. I explore how creativity, culture, and rhythm collide to form the nex
• Baby Names Venture into Darkness — The new generation of baby names flirts with shadows night, storm, raven, noir. I explore why darker, moodier names are
• These ’50s and ’60s Names are Showing Signs of Life — I revisit the golden age of baby naming the 1950s and ’60s when Mary, Susan, and Michael shaped generations. A nostalgic
• Dutch term – Godsdienst — The term godsdienst appears everywhere in Dutch records. I look at what it reveals about religion, identity, and communi
• Dutch term – Slaaf — The word slaaf carries weight. I look at how it appears in Dutch colonial and archival records, what it meant in histori
• The perfect wife — A look at ideals of womanhood, marriage, and domestic virtue in late imperial China and early modern East Asia. I’m thin
• Accepting who you are — There’s relief in dropping the version of yourself you think you’re supposed to be. I’m reflecting on identity, expectat
• Polite Parisians: Really? — I wander through 19th-century Paris looking for the truth behind that famous French rudeness. From café manners to stree
• The Parisian Lifestyle: Old When Young, Young When Old — I look at the strange rhythm of growing up in old Paris, where youth behaved like miniature adults and elders clung to y
• Parisian Prostitutes: The Impostors — I dig into the underbelly of 19th-century Paris to find the women posing as something they weren’t false identities, blu
• Take America Back — I’m wrestling with patriotism, politics, and the stories we tell about “taking things back.” A personal reflection on cu
• I Find Myself — I’m circling back to myself in the quiet—midlife reflection, motherhood, and the odd, honest work of figuring out who I
• I See Myself Home — Home isn’t a place so much as a feeling I’m learning to trust. A reflective essay on belonging, ageing, and making peace
• Loose Ends: Mexico City: Dreams and Nightmares — I’m thinking about the dreams people shared during my time in Mexico City in 2018 hopes, plans, and what comes after mov
• The Garden Sings To Those That Mother — A garden of memory and praise blooms in my latest Mother's Day poem, an acrostic published in MasticadoresUSA. I honor m
• What’s in a (Name)? — Ever been reduced to a parenthesis? In this personal essay I tell how seeing my name listed as (Cindy) in my father-in-l
• Liberation — A reflective short story about reclaiming self after emotional weight and expectation. I write about quiet rebellion, pe
• Disheveled — Some days I feel gloriously put together; others I’m a beautiful mess. This piece leans into the honesty of imperfect mo
• Being Patriotic — I’ve been reflecting on what patriotism means through a Christian lens. This post explores loving your country while kee
• Quotes from Underworld — A curated set of literary quotations paired with commentary, exploring power, violence, and American identity through Un
• I’m finally legitimate. — A personal reflection on legitimacy, authority, and what it really means to feel “official” questioning whether external
• Personal Websites Aren’t Dead — Indie web defiance: corporate platforms commodify identity. Self-hosted freedom over algorithm cages despite tech overhe
• Food is Culture, Fire is Poison — Taiwan food culture reveres freshness raw seafood, sizzling woks fire "poisons" delicate flavors. Expats miss nuance pre
• People of the Internet — Digital tribes define identity beyond borders memes, values shape modern belonging in overlapping online worlds.
• Where is the Benefit in Being a Vice Lord? — Former Cicero Insane Vice Lords leader (serving 60 years from juvenile crime) weighs gang pros (religion, brotherhood, p
• evolving our DNA — Cultural evolution faster than genetic. Memes shape us more now conscious evolution or drift?
• grafted ways of being — Hybrid identities/cultures as strength. Grafting new onto old creates resilient futures vs purity myths.
• A Woman is no Man — "A Woman Is No Man" adaptation review. Palestinian-American novel on family, patriarchy, secrecy. Explores immigrant exp