To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. In her TED talk early this year, The beauty of being misfit, author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of self-acceptance.
"Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful," she says. "You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty."
You can read the transcript here.