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Unhappy holidays: navigating the festive season when you need to protect a Rainbow child or young person in your family
The holiday season… For some of the older young people in our lives, this is already here. For younger ones, they are at peak excitement...

Claire Teal
Dec 18, 20244 min read


Unhappy holidays: navigating the festive season when you’re not out to the people you’re spending it with
So, you’ve been on a journey and have come out to yourself. And right now, you’re holding that information close to your chest. Not...

Claire Teal
Dec 12, 20244 min read


Unhappy holidays: navigating the festive season with unsupportive people
It’s here - the time of year when we are reminded at every turn that the holidays are about happy, smiling families and coming home for...

Claire Teal
Dec 3, 20244 min read


The hetero way or the highway
In retrospect, the clues had been there all along. In high school and college, I wrote poems about girls and women I had crushes on and...

Claire Teal
Nov 27, 20243 min read
…in celebration of Transgender Awareness Week 2024
At Kōwhai, we are proud to celebrate and support Aotearoa’s diverse transgender communities through the counselling and psychoeducation...

Claire Teal
Nov 13, 20244 min read


...but how did you not know?
Since coming out, I have been asked the question “but how did you not know?” more times than I care to remember. Nowadays, how far I...

Claire Teal
Nov 7, 20242 min read


Wait a minute... I don't think I'm straight.
When we think about coming out for the first time, we usually think of young people, right? But what if we find ourselves in our 30s or...

Claire Teal
Oct 9, 20242 min read
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