yay!

Really great to see Outminds is back

Why do we tell our coming out stories? What is the significance in this ritual?

For many, coming out is “coming of age” – it’s often a bittersweet experience, fraught with anxiety and stress. Will we be accepted – will the people we care about continue to care about us?

Many are welcomed with open arms by friends and family alike. Others are spurned and must grieve the loss of family and friends.

Some of us face thoughts of suicide when the idea or reality of our coming out becomes too much to bear. We yearn to hear other stories, to have our experiences validated. To know that we are not alone.

Telling our stories is a rite of passage, a way of sharing the common struggle of understanding an identity that is often in conflict with the family and social values of our communities. Part of that struggle is asserting our own identities and creating our own communities. These are OUR stories.

Hey Rebekah/Piper – How are you doing??! It’s been a LONG time since we’ve chatted! I really appreciate that you’re checking out the site! I’m still working away on some of the features to get everything working as smoothly as possible. Pretty soon I’m gonna start heavily trying to get the word out that OUTMINDS is back!

How is the roller derby going? I can barely stand on skates much less race a bunch of women around a track. But I bet it’s fun to watch!!!

Hows the masters program going? And what are you planning on doing with your social work degree? Thats super freaking cool – I had considered going into social work ( but did psychology instead, and then went to computers, go figure!)

Again, thanks for checking out the site! We’ll get some conversation going, and watch the floodgates as the good old OUTminders find their way home!

~ Lisa

Hey all! I think I have the profiles working a bit better now – that is they’re not caught up in some nested loop that keeps pushing each subsequent item further to the right (gotta love nested loops that don’t escape properly). Anyways, I will be adding more features to the profiles as I continue building out the site. Any and all feedback is welcomed – encouraged – begged for!

So, who is old school OM, come back again to see how things go?

Who (what handle) where you?

I was Wolfy Knight and Wolfy De Knight.

I swear I responded to this already… o.0

anyway, all I said was that I remember Jeffers0n. but I am sure if you made mention of an old handle I would remember it too and be all like ‘duh!’ that I didnt think of it sooner.