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A Reclamation of Our Personal Rights as Working-Class Queer Women
“You have the right to be recognized in your communities.” If you’re a queer, working class woman, you’re living at the intersections of many forms of oppression. Here’s a a powerful reclamation of the rights you deserve.
Read More5 Questions I’ve Asked Myself About Disordered Eating That Have Helped Me Heal
If you have a complicated relationship with food like this author, you could probably use some reminders to disrupt your negative thoughts about your body. These questions might be able to help you challenge some toxic notions.
Read More8 Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Hear About Your Fad Diet
Diet season is here, and weight loss talk is everywhere. Here’s how it’s hurting people developing healthy relationships with food and their bodies – and how you can help instead.
Read More10 Types of Misogynist Men We All Need to Know About – And Then Call Out!
So you know the basics of how male privilege shows up – but do you know these subtler examples that are harder to identify? Addressing these can make a big difference beyond standing up to blatant sexism.
Read MoreYour FitBit Is Ruining Your Relationship with Your Body – Here Are 3 Reasons Why
This author’s done with FitBit, Nike+, and all the other apps that “track your numbers.” Here’s why this is a big problem disguised as health – and how it might be taking a toll on you.
Read MoreHow Disablist Western Ideas of ‘Self-Determination’ Undermine Social Justice and 5 Ways to Make It Right
Self-determination – making your own choices – is so important. But let’s be careful about the difference between self-determination from a colonial perspective and how it’s defined in Indigenous struggles. If we don’t, it can be used to actively perpetuate marginalization and hurt disabled people. Here’s how you can take up self-determination in a justice framework.
Read MoreExamining 12 ‘Good Fatty’ Archetypes We Depend On
“Good fatty” is usually used to describe a fat person who at least believes in the socially constructed viewpoint that their number one goal in life should be losing weight. But upon closer inspection, there are a few “good fatty” archetypes that we, as a society, depend on – all with their own unique purposes in the fat-antagonistic machine. Here are twelve to consider in your activism.
Read MoreHow Body Love Can Change Society for the Better
What would happen if we stopped trying to satisfy an arbitrary standard of beauty, and focused on loving what we have? According to Jes Baker, a lot would change.
Read MoreAn Anti-Marriage Feminist Gets (Happily) Married
When I witnessed female classmates dropping out of school at an alarming rate with the express purpose of getting married and starting a family, I wondered, “are traditional gender roles what we fought for?” But later I realized the most important thing is to offer men and women the right to choose their own life path and not feel like their choices are restricted by their gender.
Read MoreThe Gender Playbook: A Guide to Figuring Out Your Non-Binary Identity
Only you have the answers to figuring out your gender identity – but it’s hard to feel like there’s no template to follow if your gender is non-binary. Here’s the next best thing: a fantastic guide to figuring out your gender.
Read MoreHow Video Games Use Women as Background Decoration
(Trigger warning: violence against women.) Misogyny is omnipresent in our society, but it has an especially widespread presence in video games. Female characters in games (if present at all) rarely play any significant role. Instead, they’re often reduced to background decoration used to advance the male protagonist’s journey — often through hypersexualized and/or violent means.
Read More6 Things That I Understand About the Fat-Acceptance Movement
I am most certainly plus-size at 5’6″ and 260 pounds; a size 18 in most stores. I’m pretty damn fat and unabashedly so. But all bodies–large, small, and everything in between–pay dearly for the negativity in which fat bodies are perceived. So I’m here to explain to the world the 6 things that are often misunderstood about the fat acceptance movement.
Read More13 Myths And Misconceptions About Trans Women
Almost all of these myths stem from the assumption that trans women are really men, and considering us through a male frame of reference. So if there is one myth to debunk from which all others would perish, it’s the notion that our gender is not legitimate. We are women. But if you need further explanation, let me break it down for you with these 13 myths.
Read MoreThink You Know the Face of Bulimia? Think Again
Fat people with eating disorders suffer unnoticed in a culture that equates eating disorders with another body type. Share this video to help break the silence.
Read More6 Awful Things That Happen When We Think ‘Good’ People Can’t Be Rapists or Abusers
Whether they’re celebrities or people we know, we tend to believe “good” people are nothing like the “monsters” who rape and abuse. But here’s why we need to drop this idea – for survivors, for community, and for yourself.
Read More6 Things You Might Not Think Are Harassment, But Definitely Are
Many people have no idea what does and does not constitute harassment. Here’s the thing: in our society, men are taught to feel sexually entitled to women. So many men who approach women in public spaces feel they “should” respond positively to their overtures – and then get upset at them when they don’t. Here’s some concrete examples of how this shows up.
Read More7 Things I Love About Being Bi
For bisexual people, representations of our identity in the pop culture world seem to fall into one of two categories. The first is absolute erasure: We encounter TV shows, movies, news reports, songs, trends, books, and essays that refuse to acknowledge the existence or validity of bisexuality in any way. On the other hand, the recent…
Read MoreIs Asexuality More Common Than You Think?
How common is asexuality, and what does science say about it? Learn about what asexuality means in this DNews video.
Read More10 Things Sex Positivity Is Not
#2: “Thinking everyone should like sex.” You might think these things are sex-positive, but find out what it means to assume they’re great for everyone.
Read More5 Awesome Things About Being Mini-Orgasmic
Do you know about the different orgasmic patterns? If you can relate to this author and your orgasms aren’t like the ones in the movies, you’re not dysfunctional – here’s a celebration of how mini-orgasmic bodies work.
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