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Not Everyone’s as Ripped as Ken – Why These Toys Need a Body Image Makeover
Barbie’s updated to show girls they don’t have to be white and thin – but what about toys created with boys in mind? Here’s why they need healthier body image, too.
Read MoreHow We Can Embrace Our Own #BlackMuslimGirlMagic If the Media Ignores Us
How do you feel about how the media portrays Black Muslims? Too often, there’s no visibility at all – but this gorgeous story and photoshoot shows how we can change the game.
Read More8 Reminders to Not Be So Hard On Yourself When You’re Just Trying to Survive
If you’re “just getting by,” you might feel like a failure. These affirming reminders will remind you that slowing down can actually be good for you.
Read MoreWhy Women’s Clothing Sizes Make Zero Sense
“It’s not you. It’s the industry.” These facts about this history of women’s clothing sizes, Marilyn Monroe, and marketing lies might help you feel better about your body.
Read More3 Misogynistic ‘Rules’ That Held Me Back at Work – And How I’ve Challenged Them
Can you believe what some people have said to her about her work? This shows why it’s important to be aware of gender norms at work.
Read MoreNative Youth and the Urgent Issue of Suicide
We need to talk about suicide among Native youth – and if these statistics aren’t enough to show you why, this young person’s story will convince you.
Read More15 Tips for Raising Kids with a Positive Body Image
As parents we have a powerful influence in how our kids grow up feeling about their bodies and their relationship to food. Many of them are things we can say (or not say) that have a huge impact.
Read MoreI Was Taught to Be Proud of My Tight Asian P*ssy – Here’s Why I Wish I Hadn’t Been
“Who gets to be a ‘real’ Asian woman?” You may know the stereotypes about the “tight” Asian vagina – and we need to talk about the appalling impact.
Read MoreWhy Being Asexual Doesn’t Mean I’m ‘Broken’
Think asexual people are “just confused,” or that they can’t have “real” relationships? Here’s a moving story that busts those myths and more.
Read More4 Ways Being a Black Woman in a White Office Messes With Your Mind
Women and people of color already fight to get into spaces we aren’t usually welcome or seen in. We have to work twice as hard to get what we want, and harder to maintain what we get.
Read MoreCan Asian-Americans Appropriate Their Own Culture?
Sometimes, reclaiming culture can also mean self-stereotyping. And doing so can further perpetuate narrow and harmful conceptions of who we are.
Read MoreWe’re Failing at Talking About Sexual Assault in the US If We Ignore Native Women
Trump’s campaign kicked off a big conversation on sexual assault. But where’s the concern for Native women – who suffer the highest rates of sexual violence?
Read MoreWe Need To Talk About Racism In The Tattoo Industry
Here is the painful irony of blasé colorism in the tattoo industry: Tattoos were invented by brown and Black people millennia before white supremacy became the dominant global paradigm.
Read MoreCalling All Marginalized Folks: Here Are 5 Tools You Need to Get Back Up After Failing
The day I lost my job I realized that I was raised looking up to some incredible Black women, but I’d never really seen any of them fail.
Read MoreMisogyny Against Black and Brown Women and Femmes is still Celebrated
This article was originally published on Wear Your Voice and republished here with the author’s permission. The other day as I was riding the subway, I saw an advertisement for a new television series centering on Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old who disappeared when she was on a high school graduation to Aruba in May 2005. The case is…
Read More7 Strategies for White Educators to Help Foster Racial Justice
If you’re making an effort to make the classroom better for children of color, that’s awesome. These tips can help you make a powerful difference.
Read MoreTransgender People Are Not Included In Mainstream History. Here Are 5 Ways For Anyone to Combat Trans Erasure Everyday.
Mainstream history has accepted the gender binary and cis-ness as natural and universal, which tends to filter out entire histories and identities.
Read More5 Myths That Women Have Been Sold About Their Bodies – And How They Disconnect Us From Our Authentic Sexuality
“When we teach women to feel ashamed of their bodies, we are also taking away their capacity to experience sexual pleasure…their ability to exercise sexual freedom.”
Read MoreCivil Rights Are Green: A Concise History of Environmental Racism and Justice in the US
Environmental racism has been around since America’s inception as a mixture of disregard, neglect, and careful and intentional planning by people who benefit from it.
Read More5 Reasons Why Asian Respectability Will Never Save Us
Our proximity to whiteness doesn’t make us better, it just makes us more complicit in a system that continues to exploit Black and Indigenous (BI) POC.
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