This is not a typical Wattpad story. Beginning on July 5th, 2016 and continuing for a week, I'll post a poem, followed by writing prompts to The Identity Session. Respond to all or any of the prompts that inspire you from each day, either by in-line commenting or by writing your own story and tagging it #Identity. You can join whenever you want and participate for as many prompts as you want. I'm looking forward to writing together! Writing - and poetry - helped me overcome "slut" shaming and sexual bullying, and a big part of how I did that was discovering and defining my own identity. With "The Identity Session: A Woman Naming Herself for Herself," I'm inviting the Wattpad community to take part in this process, too, wherever and whoever you are. The prompts are written with women in mind, but all genders are encouraged to participate. This story is a collaboration with In Her Skin. All the poems and prompts are provided by In Her Skin (http://www.inherskin.net). Run by storytellers Stacy de la Rosa and Isabel Abbott, In Her Skin organizes periodic writing sessions, in which participants are emailed daily writing prompts in the form of a photograph, poem, or other artwork, over the course of a week. You can sign up for current or future sessions here: http://www.inherskin.net/#the-identity-session

Legend has it that "sluts" are lurking all around. You might encounter one on a shadowy street corner or posing in a magazine. But those tricksters also blend in easily at school, at church functions, and even in your own home. Constant vigilance is required. Without it, you might accidentally become one yourself. Except... there's no such thing as a "slut." It's just a myth. So is the "slut's" invented opposite, the "good girl." What's the deal with these lingering stereotypes and around female sexuality? Why do they still bear so much control over our cultural and personal expectations? These chapters are collected/edited from my Teen Vogue column. I want to share them with you here, where we can discuss them together, because the Wattpad community was so crucial to establishing The UnSlut Project as an international movement. I hope your comments on these essays will grow into conversations, and that we can keep inspiring and learning from each other!

This is a story I've been wanting to tell ever since I started writing about my experience being sexually bullied in middle school. When Netflix's new series "13 Reasons Why" asked me to participate in this promotion for their "What If" contest, I saw it as a chance to share a time when I was on the other side of sexual bullying, a time I wish I could go back and change.

I was the 6th-grade "slut." And I kept a diary. So I decided to create The UnSlut Project in the hopes that my own diary entries could provide some perspective to girls who currently feel trapped and ashamed. I am publishing these entries one at a time, without changing a single word except for the names of the people involved. My limited commentary, which is confined to brackets in each entry, is meant to provide the relief of my current perspective, fifteen years later. The UnSlut Project: Working to undo the dangerous slut shaming in our schools, communities, media, and culture by sharing knowledge and experiences.