Online and in my social circles, I’m also actively choosing to be visibly disabled.
8 Steps Toward Building Indispensability (Instead of Disposability) Culture
Social justice was a set of rules that could finally put the world into an order that made sense to me.
Social justice was a set of rules that could finally put the world into an order that made sense to me.
5 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Women Who Don’t Want Children
Raising kids is an honorable thing, but that doesn’t mean you should be pressured into it for the sake of conforming to ideals that aren’t even yours.
Raising kids is an honorable thing, but that doesn’t mean you should be pressured into it for the sake of conforming to ideals that aren’t even yours.
8 Reminders to Not Be So Hard on Yourself When You’re Just Trying to Survive
You don’t have to be perfect. Surviving is enough, and you should not feel bad if that is all you can manage sometimes.
You don’t have to be perfect. Surviving is enough, and you should not feel bad if that is all you can manage sometimes.
11 Common Ways White Folks Avoid Taking Responsibility for Racism in the US
A structural understanding recognizes racism as a default system that institutionalizes an unequal distribution of resources and power between white people and people of color.
A structural understanding recognizes racism as a default system that institutionalizes an unequal distribution of resources and power between white people and people of color.
How White Americans Lose When They Don’t Stand Up for Racial Justice (And 4 Ways They Can Counter Racism Instead)
Perhaps more White Americans would become more invested in the fight for racial justice if they looked inward to question the costs of their denial.
Perhaps more White Americans would become more invested in the fight for racial justice if they looked inward to question the costs of their denial.
5 Common Assumptions You Never Realized Were Classist
It’s active classism that I’m going to focus on today – the people who look at any level of poor and declare it wrong or disgusting or lazy.
It’s active classism that I’m going to focus on today – the people who look at any level of poor and declare it wrong or disgusting or lazy.
3 Well-Meaning Assumptions About Women You Never Realized Were Sexist
Yet just because benevolent sexism is so common, and the harm it causes is often unintended, doesn’t mean that the negative impact is any less real.
Yet just because benevolent sexism is so common, and the harm it causes is often unintended, doesn’t mean that the negative impact is any less real.
You Don’t Have to Hate Women to Be Sexist: Everyday Ways You May Be Sexist Without Knowing It
Loving and respecting women has nothing to do with whether or not your actions are sexist, and you certainly don’t have to hate women to be a sexist.
Loving and respecting women has nothing to do with whether or not your actions are sexist, and you certainly don’t have to hate women to be a sexist.
4 Racist Stereotypes White Patriarchy Invented to ‘Protect’ White Womanhood
You know how you have to act differently around them?
You know how you have to act differently around them?
How Women Are Pressured Into Being Sexy, but Punished for Being Sexual
Focus on constantly challenging the notion that a woman’s value should be judged by her sexiness to begin with.
Focus on constantly challenging the notion that a woman’s value should be judged by her sexiness to begin with.
The Glorification of Masculinity in the Queer Dating Scene Is Totally a Thing – But No One Seems to Want to Talk About It
I want to see a community where all women can be empowered to make their own decisions about their appearances and their bodies, free of being assigned arbitrary value based on their gender expression or sexual activities.
I want to see a community where all women can be empowered to make their own decisions about their appearances and their bodies, free of being assigned arbitrary value based on their gender expression or sexual activities.
10 Ways Men Can Combat Sexist Entitlement in Public
Sadly, though, many men saw it as a chance to question and challenge women’s experiences with misogyny rather than to listen.
Sadly, though, many men saw it as a chance to question and challenge women’s experiences with misogyny rather than to listen.
3 Ways to Take Care of Yourself When You Live With Toxic Parents
Unless the situation is abusive or dangerous, you often feel like you have to make the best of it.
Unless the situation is abusive or dangerous, you often feel like you have to make the best of it.
5 Myths About Gender Neutral Parenting
The whole point of GNP is that is doesn’t force any preconceived gender norms onto a child in the hopes that they can find their own comfort spot on the continuum we call gender.
The whole point of GNP is that is doesn’t force any preconceived gender norms onto a child in the hopes that they can find their own comfort spot on the continuum we call gender.
10 Things You’re Actually Saying When You Ignore Someone’s Gender Pronouns
It can’t be emphasized enough: Coming out as transgender or any variation thereof is downright terrifying.
It can’t be emphasized enough: Coming out as transgender or any variation thereof is downright terrifying.