SHARE YOUR STORY
Your story may be the one someone else needs to find.
You don’t need a perfect ending. You don’t have to have everything figured out. And you never have to share more than you’re comfortable sharing.
Lavender Collective welcomes real stories about rebuilding, starting over, advocacy, motherhood, career, education, entrepreneurship, loss, faith, domestic abuse, reinvention, and the chapters life didn’t go according to plan.
You decide what part of your story you’re ready to tell.
Your story. Your boundaries.
You choose how you want to be identified. Share your full name, first name only, a chosen name or pseudonym, or remain anonymous.
Safety and dignity come before storytelling.
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Full Name
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First Name Only
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Pseudonym
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Anonymous
Before you submit
Stories may be lightly edited for spelling, clarity, length and readability. If more substantial edits are needed, Lavender Collective may contact you before publication.
Submission does not guarantee publication.
If a story includes highly sensitive information, allegations against another person, pending court matters, children, medical information or identifying details, Lavender Collective may remove or change identifying information before considering publication.
Please do not include:
• a child’s full name
• home address
• school name
• private phone numbers or email addresses
• Social Security numbers
• passwords
• case numbers
• financial account numbers
• other information that could compromise someone’s privacy or safety
You never owe the world your story.
But if you decide to share it, we’ll treat it like it matters.
Because it does.
Different stories. Different storms. Different beginnings. There is still so much life after what happened.