"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....

Photo Credit: Shuttershock I started hating myself for my own skin color; I was looking for something which I could never get: fair skin....

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’,...

This story was written by William Calhoun from the USA. Our lives are filled with stories—stories we hear from our parents, from our...

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...

This story was written by Mukhamat Anwar from INDONESIA. Bullying exists in our society. Physical and psychological violence victims can...

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...

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...

This story was written by Luanna Hedler from BRAZIL. Respect is key, especially when it comes to religion. My parents are not extremely...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

This story was written by Ananya De from INDIA. I have faced a variety of body shaming, sometimes subtle and sometimes direct. There were...

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...

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....

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...

This story was written by Shucheesmita Simonti from BANGLADESH. I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2011, I got ICCR scholarship to pursue...