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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.

Rape jokes, false sympathy, hashtags like #NotAllMen: These are hurting survivors. So if you’re sick of rape jokes or wonder why other people are, catch a prize-winning slam piece from these young Brave New Poets.

Can you know someone’s beliefs by looking at them? Join Shug and Fats as they hit the streets to find out. Enjoy their off-beat humor and empowering style as they explore our ideas about what a feminist looks like and what a person’s appearance says about their beliefs. This conversation can challenge our assumptions and help us all feel free to be our true selves.

What’s it’s like to date a feminist? Here’s an honest interview with someone who knows: boyfriend of self-described part-time feminist vlogger, full-time sass machine Marina Watanabe. Even if you’re familiar with feminist dating, you’ll want to catch his hilarious answers to her hard-hitting questions and get a little more enlightened about everyday feminist life.

If you’re newly single, you shouldn’t have to feel embarrassed about how you heal – and that includes if you heal in a sexual way or if you choose not to. You might get a lot of advice and judgments. But here’s all the post-breakup bedroom advice you need: a comic to remind you that you know what’s best and healthiest for you, no matter what anyone else says.

Though it’s easier to leave the topic alone, having a conversation about marriage equality with a morally opposed friend is important. To help you have this conversation and keep your friendship, here’s a list of tips to keep in mind.

Studies show that people who have compassion for themselves are happier, more optimistic, and more grateful than those who are harder on themselves. Here’s how can you start!

Just say “no” – it’s easy to say, difficult to do. We’ve been socialized to value other people’s needs and feelings, often more than our own. So much so that many of us have a hard time knowing what we feel and want in any given situation. But the beauty of having a firm “no” is that it allows you to say “yes” to the things you do want in your life. So here’s some tips on how to say “no.”

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Some of these come from good intentions – and all of them are things you might not have considered if you’re able-bodied. What would you add to the list?

Make no mistake: There is serious stigma around mental health. People are misinformed about what it is, how it’s caused, and how it can be treated. As a result, people are hesitant to consider seeking the help they need. Check out this video in which vlogger Marina Watanabe shares her story of how she came to terms with her depression and started to manage it.

Having sex is not obligatory, nor does it lead to the ultimate state of bliss. It’s neither as ideal nor as demonic as some would have you believe. There also isn’t one way to experience it. There is no one way to experience sexuality, and attempts to shame or stigmatize people for a lack of sex or attraction, even indirectly, are fraught with assumptions about how things “should” be.

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Body hair is perfectly normal, so why do we get the message that it’s disgusting and unhygienic? The idea that people can monitor and police other people’s bodies is really messed up. Take it from this author, whose transition taught him that no one’s body fits expectations. Read about his love for his body and get inspired to love your own wild and lovely self.

Homophobia and transphobia can combine to make queer and trans* immigrants bear the brunt of the U.S.’s already racist and xenophobic immigration laws. Learn how US immigration law impacts the most vulnerable members of our community and how queer and trans* rights activists can be involved in coalition building with immigrant rights’ groups to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

Make no mistake: I was not always a bathing suit enthusiast! But this year, I bought my very own fatkini in week one of beach season. “Holy lemon bars, what is a fatkini, Virgie?” you may be asking. It’s a trendy moniker for a two-piece bathing suit for fat girls – often involving high-waisted bottoms. If you haven’t heard of the fatkini phenomenon, ghurl, you’ve got to get on this trend.

Mixing these up is so common! Do you know the difference? Here’s the full breakdown – and it shows why it’s so important to get it right.

We must acknowledge that Latinx folks can be anti-Black, perpetuate anti-Black racism, and can be white supremacists.

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“I don’t want to be ‘that person,’ but…” You can find info on things like textbooks and office supplies, but what about using your feminism to advance the classroom environment? These tips can give you a great start.

How can we cut fatphobic language out of our fat-positive lives? Here are some easy tips!

Most people don’t realize that mass incarceration isn’t just similar to US slavery – it’s a direct descendent of it. This illustrated video fills in the disturbing unspoken details about our criminal justice system.

The experience of black folks is excluded from an endless list of discussions; one such discussion is that around the topic of eating disorders. Do black people have eating disorders? How is their relationship with food related to race? And how are these experiences valued in the community? Hear the opinions of dozens of black folks on these questions.