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Your Social Movement Needs to Be Inclusive of Neurodiversity – Here Are 8 Ways to Make It Happen!
If our social movements aren’t accessible for everyone, then who are they for?
Read MoreHow to Disagree with Your Loved Ones If You’re Trying to Keep Them in Your Life
Is it possible to disagree about politics with your loved ones without your relationships with them going to hell? These tips might help.
Read MoreWhy Not Celebrating Pride Month Doesn’t Make Me #NotProud
As many of us do every year around this time, I got some invites to attend Pride Parades, wear my “gayest outfit” for bar/club crawls, and just “come out and celebrate!” I couldn’t put my finger on it, but somehow I was not motivated to go. What exactly are we proud of and celebrating? And on the flipside, what do we have left to tackle in the movement?
Read More7 Ways To Use Spiritual Practice To Heal and Resist
Learning to use spirituality as a form of healing and resistance is vital to both ourselves and our given communities.
Read MoreHow the Beauty Bias Makes Us Treat ‘Pretty’ People Better
Do you look anything like the people deemed “most beautiful” by magazines? Here’s how the beauty bias might be getting to you – and what to do about it.
Read More10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On a First Date
If you’re not going to support marginalized folks, then we can’t be friends, let alone date. The personal is political.
Read MoreI’m A Victim-Blamer (But Only When The Victim Was Me)!
I was groped at work by a woman. My immediate response was to pretend it never happened. My solution was to hold myself responsible and try to “learn from the experience” and “do better in the future.” If that’s how I handled a minor transgression, what must the cultural shame for a major one feel like? But the truth is, she never should have groped me. And I still have trouble believing that.
Read More4 Ways People of Color Can Deepen the Conversation on Racism in Dating
With recent buzz about white people unlearning racist beauty standards, it’s time for people of color to push the conversation further for our own healing.
Read MoreWhat to Do When Your Child Believes Gender Bias
“My hair’s too long for a boy.” How would you feel if your child said something like this? These great ideas for what to do show why it’s so important to respond when your child makes gender-based comments.
Read MoreStill Think Rape Jokes Are Harmless Fun?
Some people think its funny when boys joke about rape. They argue that people who speak out against those jokes, and the culture that encourages and allows them, are humorless. But those boys eventually turn into teenagers and men, some of whom DO commit actual sexual violence that predominately, but not exclusively, target women. This must stop now!
Read MoreFrustrated with Hearing “I’m Not a Feminist Since I Don’t Hate Men”? Here’s 7 Ways To Show Why Those Claims Are Sexist
“I don’t hate men. I shave my legs. So I’m not a feminist.” Ugh, can we spread this list far and wide so people will stop saying that already?
Read More10 Pop Culture Characters Who Stayed Friends or Lovers with Their Rapists
The Simpsons, Gone with the Wind, Glee – some of our society’s most beloved movies and TV shows are trivializing rape in a dangerous way.
Read More5 Myths People Believe About Aromanticism That Just Aren’t True
“All aros are asexual.” Have you bought into any of these myths about aromantic identity? You might be surprised by how much the truth changes your perception.
Read MoreNeed Proof of Rape Culture? Here Are 5 Ridiculous Things Some Men Say When Accused of Rape
Check out these ways that men often react to being accused of rape – and how society accepts their excuses. What would you add to the list?
Read More10 Things We Need to Make Sure American Women Can Do by 2040
Women’s rights in the United States have come a long way. But as we reflect on the remarkable progress the feminist movement has made in creating a more just and equal society, I challenge us to also look ahead to our next few decades of work. By 2040, let’s make sure young feminists can marvel at the following ten things that women of our generation were once not able to do.
Read More5 Messages I Really Needed (But Never Got) as a Queer Teenager
We have to do better by queer teenagers. These truths can give you a good idea of how to better support the queer teenagers in your life.
Read More6 Tips for Making Your Conversations About Reproductive Rights More Trans-Inclusive
On January 21, 2017, millions of people around the world participated in The Women’s March. A Facebook event that quickly went viral, the march was a powerful display of resistance and solidarity that coalesced around a number of issues including reproductive rights and fighting back against sexual assault. But, for many transgender people, the march…
Read More5 Problems I Still Deal With After Being Called ‘Too Sensitive’ As a Child
“There’s something about you that’s very… blank,” a friend admitted to me a few years ago. “Like, you say everything in this emotionless way.” It hadn’t always been like that. I used to cry at cartoons because I loved getting so wrapped up in the story, it felt like it was my own. My parents…
Read MoreFive Subtle Differences Between Diets and Anorexia
Contrary to popular belief, eating disorders are not diets. They’re a type of mental illness and is categorized by a loss of self-control and an inability to think and behave rationally towards food. And while poor body-image and diet culture are problematic, eating disorders take on a whole new level of dangerous. So we need to be able to pinpoint when the former develops into the latter.
Read More4 Reasons I’m So Done with Being Told to ‘Not Be Too Picky’ About Dates
What’s wrong with telling a woman with high standards not to be “too picky” about dating? Check out the sexist assumptions behind this warning.
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