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10 Steps to a Fat Shame-Free Thanksgiving
Seriously — just don’t talk about anyone’s body. If you follow that rule, always, then the rest are unnecessary, really.
Read More3 Reasons Why You Can’t Have Body Positivity Without Feminism
If you’re doing body-positive work, you’re borrowing directly from feminism. And if you’re not owning that and practicing its inherent values, your body positivity is useless.
Read MoreThe Healthcare Industry Is Failing Us. Here’s How You Can Also Rely On Ancestral Medicine
Editor’s Note: This article is not meant to suggest that readers forego traditional medicine when it’s necessary nor does it propose ancestral medicine as the solution to our healthcare crisis. It’s meant to explore other types of medicine that can be beneficial to supplement with Western medicine. When’s the last time you put your hands in…
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 More7 Ways To Self-Care And Self-Love As A Muslim Woman In White Supremacist America
As a community, speaking up about the need to take care of ourselves can cause a ripple effect and link our individual well being to larger acts of community resistance.
Read More3 Things America Doesn’t Want To Tell You About White Terrorism
If American people are truly worried about terrorism and the safety of their country and people, then we need to shift our focus onto white terrorists, as they increasingly seem to be the real threat.
Read MoreAsian American Women Are Killing Themselves — Here’s What We Need To Do About It
I came to discover that my experiences are not isolated, but are in fact a part of a larger mental health crisis affecting Asian American women.
Read MoreNot Gonna Leave: 3 Times Neighbors Got Together To Fight Gentrification
Back in the early nineties Ma and I lived in a one bedroom apartment with crappy brown carpeting, cottage cheese ceilings, the heat thick and rising. Ma always out working while I fried up mushrooms and listened to her Diana Ross and the Supremes albums. Sometimes, the lights cut off. Back then the bills would…
Read More10 Ways White People Can Stop Annoying People of Color on Social Media
This article originally appeared on Wear Your Voice and was republished here with the author’s permission. When it comes to social media etiquette, we are all still learning how to interact with each other while respecting boundaries and the spaces we give ourselves. What has translated over straight from our in-person interactions are racist, sexist…
Read More5 Ways to Lovingly Support Someone With C-PTSD
I was watching the Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I suddenly went into shock. Right from the start, seeing Quasimodo be the recipient of so much gaslighting – being told that the world wasn’t safe, that he would never be accepted or loved, that Frollo had only his best interest at heart…
Read More5 Social Theories That Prove Health Is Constructed
If health is so clearly not as simple as we make it out to be, then why are we pretending like it is?
Read More4 Self-Care Practices for When Working as a Woman of Color Has Got You Down
Practicing self-care at work, or in response to issues at work, can be the difference between feeling hopeless and isolated or inspired and optimistic.
Read MoreWhen The Institution Strikes Back: How Student Activists Can Survive Administration Retaliation
For me, one of the scariest parts of student organizing was realizing the school or institution I had put trust into was actually working against me. The first time I realized my beloved institution, Spelman College, was simply a cog in the system was after my participation in a sexual violence protest after the “Raped…
Read MoreHow the Trigger Warning Debate Exposes Our F*cked Up Views on Mental Illness
Do you agree with the University of Chicago dean about trigger warnings? These attitudes reveal that we need urgent changes in our approach to mental health.
Read MoreIf Physical Illness Was Treated like Mental Illness
Because our society is dependent on people complacently generating income and labor, folks with mental illnesses are entirely too often neglected, not acknowledged, and not taken seriously. Rather than empathy or advocacy, family members (as well as cultural, economic, and political institutions) assault people with condescending advice and demeaning ridicule.
Read MoreJust Starting Psych Meds? Here’s a Guide to Help You
Do you have questions about taking medication for your mental health? Here’s a comic that covers one person’s perspectives and suggestions for starting out.
Read MoreWhy We Need to Stop Comparing Mental Illness to Physical Illness
Should we be treating mental illness more like we treat physical illness? This is said to address mental health stigma, but here’s why it’s not helping.
Read MoreMental Illness: How the Media Contributes To Its Stigma
All too often, media portrayals of the mentally ill reflect our culture’s fear and ignorance about mental illness. Seeing so many stereotyped fictional characters with mental illness can impact how we see real people with mental illnesses. To help separate fact from fiction, here are some media-perpetuated myths so you don’t project them onto people with mental illness.
Read MoreHow to Survive College When You Have a Mental Disorder
Are you struggling to get through college while dealing with a mental disorder? You’re not the only one – and these practical tips can help.
Read MoreWhat Calling Women ‘Crazy’ Really Says About Femininity and Mental Illness
How many times have you come across descriptions of women as “hysterical,” “too emotional,” or “crazy?” Marina Watanabe has a really good point about the impact of this.
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