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Topic Guide and Subcategories

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1. Community & Age-Focused

Voices and content shaped by age, generation, or family/community role.

Elder’s Voice

A space dedicated to honoring the lived wisdom of older generations.
This category welcomes life lessons, heartfelt stories, reflective letters, practical advice, and time-tested insights drawn from experience. Whether written by elders or shared in their honor, these contributions celebrate perspective, resilience, and the power of memory.

Ideal topics include:

  • Personal stories and milestones

  • Letters to younger generations

  • Reflections on aging and legacy

  • Tips for life, health, and balance

  • Cultural traditions and values

  • Commentary on societal changes

This is not just about age — it’s about the value of perspective and the richness of a life lived.

“At CityBook, stories are welcomed in grace. You don’t have to share beliefs to share space.”

However, this space does not host content that pressures others to adopt specific ideologies, language, or political positions.
CityBook invites open-hearted sharing, not persuasion or debate.
Stories may be deeply personal — but must be told in humility and respect for those with different beliefs.

 

A space for honest, personal storytelling shaped by the journey of identity.
Here, contributors share reflections on who they are — or are becoming — through the lens of experience, culture, family, faith, trauma, healing, or transformation.

Ideal content includes:

  • Personal journeys through identity, change, and self-understanding

  • Reflections on gender, expression, names, or belonging

  • Stories of healing from family dynamics, trauma, or social expectation

  • Letters to younger selves or future generations

  • Essays exploring harmony between personal identity and faith or values

  • Identity is welcome

  • Activism is not

  • And you’re not required to agree with someone in order to let them speak

At CityBook, stories are welcomed in grace. You don’t have to share beliefs to share space.

This space is for biological and/or lived male experiences only.
If a post is found to misrepresent this, or the author refuses good-faith identity clarification, they may be removed to protect the space’s integrity.

Fatherhood & Parenting

A space for teenagers to express themselves, explore ideas, and connect with others.
This category highlights the curiosity, creativity, and clarity of youth — where teens are not only learners but also teachers and changemakers.

Teens teach, Ask & Learn

 

This category ideal content includes:

  • Honest questions and thoughtful reflections

  • Guides, tips, and how-tos created by teens (tech, creativity, wellness, etc.)

  • Experiences navigating identity, friendship, school, and family

  • Open letters, rants, or insights about what matters right now

  • Contributions on social causes, digital culture, trends, or challenges

Whether asking questions, sharing skills, or just speaking your truth — your voice matters here.

A window into how today’s teens interact with technology, digital culture, and self-expression.
This category showcases the insight, creativity, and adaptability of young people as they test, review, and redefine tools the rest of us are still learning to use.

Ideal content includes:

  • Reviews of new apps, gadgets, platforms, or games

  • Insights on evolving language, emoji use, memes, or digital trends

  • Personal takes on digital life: identity, privacy, online presence

  • Tutorials or tips for peers and adults alike

  • Explorations of how tech shapes relationships, learning, and self-expression

Teens are often the first to try something new — and the best at explaining it. This space gives them the credit and the mic.

This space is a nurturing space for women — mothers, daughters, caretakers, and creatives — to share truth from a feminine perspective.

Here we value wisdom, softness, strength, intuition, and faith.

This is not a space for ideological activism, political agendas, or hostility toward men, fatherhood, motherhood, or family. It is a space for wholeness, restoration, and rooted identity.

Contributions may include:

  • Personal reflections on motherhood or femininity

  • Family stories, daily wisdom, nurturing challenges

  • The sacred feminine in faith, culture, and nature

  • Letters to children, younger selves, or society

Respectful disagreement is welcome. Disrespect, anger, or agenda-pushing is not.

Homefront Mothers: Respect, Rights, and Value

2. Professional Niches

Themes based on personal identity, life experience, or professional knowledge.

Psychology & Mental Health

Insights and reflections from professionals or lived experience, exploring emotional intelligence, healing, resilience, and the human mind.

Stories and guidance from or about those with uniquely wired minds — including ADHD, autism, giftedness, and other neurotypes — with respect and nuance.

For mothers navigating traditional or divergent parenting, offering wisdom, challenges, and everyday victories in raising children

Personal journeys of adaptation, identity, and belonging across borders — sharing the beauty and hardship of life in a new land.

Exploring lifelong learning, alternative education, and the evolving role of knowledge, both formal and self-directed.

Unfiltered perspectives and grassroots reporting from independent voices — offering critique, investigation, and truth-seeking.

A space for fiction, poetry, storytelling, and memoir — where imagination and lived experience meet in language.

Style as self-expression. From trends to traditional wear, exploring how we show up in the world through clothing and beauty.

Discipline, transformation, and physical strength. This is where fitness meets philosophy, inside and outside the gym.

For those choosing to live intentionally — whether through growing food, building off-grid, or practicing sustainable skills.

3. Broader Themes

Tips, reflections, values, and human experiences that touch all areas of life.

Voices of the East: Wisdom, Healing & Harmony

A space for exploring the timeless teachings of Eastern traditions — from Taoist philosophy and the art of balance (Yin & Yang), to Traditional Chinese Medicine, martial arts, and contemplative practices like Tai Chi and meditation.

Writers may share personal experiences, reflections on discipline and flow, cultural stories, or lessons learned from these ancient paths.

CityBook honors these traditions with reverence — not as passing trends, but as enduring pillars of human understanding.
Though often misinterpreted or dismissed by Western systems, these ways remain vibrant sources of harmony, insight, and healing for those willing to listen.

This space also stands in honor of the the lives of scientists, natural healers, and wisdom keepers who gave — or lost — their lives fighting for our right to learn, question, and choose our own paths to health and truth.

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Wisdom earned through experience — reflections on failure, resilience, maturity, and the everyday process of becoming.

Honoring cultural beliefs, ancestral knowledge, and lived spirituality — rooted in tradition or expressed in personal practice.

Stories and insights about personal faith, divine connection, or navigating belief in a complex world — shared with humility and grace.

Reflecting on the culture we live in — from norms and ethics to social structures and the forces shaping our collective identity.

Explorations of personal identity, healing, transformation, and the inner journey toward self-understanding and peace.

Honest accounts of love, family, friendship, and the evolving ways we relate to ourselves and others.

A celebration of the world through movement and cultural exchange — exploring place, people, and how they shape who we are.

Navigating big life changes — whether geographic, emotional, or spiritual — and what we gain or leave behind in the process.

Reflections on self-image, aging, natural beauty, and the cultural ideals that shape how we see and care for our bodies.

Full List

1. Community & Age-Focused

  • Elder’s Voice

  • Life Stories: Identity & Expression

  • Men’s Voice

  • Teen’s Voice

  • Women’s Voice

2. Personal & Professional Niches

 

Themes based on personal identity, life experience, or professional knowledge.

  • Psychology & Mental Health

  • Neurodivergence

  • Motherhood & Parenting

  • Immigrant Life & Stories

  • Education & Learning

  • Independent Journalism

  • Creative Writing

  • Fashion & Personal Style

  • Gym & Personal Fitness

  • Self-Sustainability (DIY, homesteading, permaculture)

3. Broader Themes

 

Cross-topic reflections, values, and human experiences that touch all areas of life.

  • Life Lessons & Growth

  • Popular Wisdom & Spirituality

  • Voices of the East: Wisdom, Healing & Harmony

  • Faith & Meaning

  • Society & Values

  • Self-Discovery

  • Relationships & Identity

  • Travel & Culture

  • Moving & Life Transitions

  • Off the Grid Living

  • Beauty, Body & Image

 

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