Hi my name is Samantha Quintero I’m 22 years old almost 23 years old I was born with HRHS which is called Hypoplastic right heart syndrome pulmonary atresia congestive heart...
#YoungWomenSay
Stories submitted by women under 30…
LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL
I wish for everyone to learn something useful from my story, my suffering. All refugees feel bad, but someone can understand them. When you lose someone you love, this is a very hard...
“BUT WITHOUT HIM, YOU’RE NOT ALONE”
When I got married I had no parents, no mother… I loved him, I trusted him, and I put my life in his hands… Then several problems started. I saw a different person, not my...
THROUGH THE BARS TO FREEDOM
[This is] the most powerful and yet, the most horrible story in my life. I still cannot realize how I managed to get in between the bars, because it was very, very thin. I don’t...
TAKUT DEWASA
Hi aku seorang wanita berumur 22 yang sebentar lagi akan berumur 23. Aku si wanita yang penuh akan ketakutan perihal masa depan, aku masih disini sampai sekarang, masih dititik yang sama...
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
Today, I realized that I am so strong, because I have three stories like this. Three times someone tried to rape me—first, when I was eight years old, [the] second time when I...
Burden of expectation- Who to blame?
Don’t know where to begin! But I feel so overloaded with thoughts that if I didn’t share, my mind will blast. I don’t want to get known by name, the only thing I want is...
Survive
Covid affected all of us. We had to stay in our homes and become sick of each other if not of an illness. We had to rely on technology and become zoom-bies. But some of us teenage, black...
I’m still healing
Trigger warning: Before reading this post, please be aware that it contains a description of childhood rape. Before I start, I would like to note that this does not even cover a quarter of...
Strive To Be Better Than Who You Were Yesterday.
Two of the most prime dates in my life are 12.14.2020 and 19.01.2021. It was on these two dates (respectively), that I gave my acceptance speech to my country for being celebrated as the...