Being the partner of someone with an invisible disability can sometimes feel like those moments – so painstakingly slow, seemingly endless, and yet you are still too helpless to stop it.
Here Are 20 Examples of Cissexism That We’ve Probably All Committed at Some Point
Cissexism is pretty much unchecked cis privilege or an otherwise shoddy awareness of the social monopoly on binary gender.
Cissexism is pretty much unchecked cis privilege or an otherwise shoddy awareness of the social monopoly on binary gender.
This Is Why It Hurts When You Say These Things to People With Chronic Pain (And Some Ideas on How To Support Instead)
These innocent assumptions can do a lot of damage.
These innocent assumptions can do a lot of damage.
Inspiration Porn: Why We Need to Stop Tokenizing Survivors
It’s important that we’re aware of the ways in which survivors’ stories are used as inspiration porn, and how this harms survivors and perpetuates rape culture.
It’s important that we’re aware of the ways in which survivors’ stories are used as inspiration porn, and how this harms survivors and perpetuates rape culture.
4 Reasons Why Calling a Woman of Color ‘Exotic’ Is Racist
Exotification is a reminder that women of color fail to meet Western, white standards of beauty that favor light skin and eyes, straight hair, and thin figures.
Exotification is a reminder that women of color fail to meet Western, white standards of beauty that favor light skin and eyes, straight hair, and thin figures.
Why Judging People for Buying Unhealthy Food Is Classist
Fast food is frequently more cost-effective for low-income people.
Fast food is frequently more cost-effective for low-income people.
3 Ways to Rethink Masculinity as a Newly Masculine-Presenting Person
My problem is entitlement.
My problem is entitlement.
4 Racist Stereotypes White Patriarchy Invented to ‘Protect’ White Womanhood
If you are a white woman, you need to analyze your complacency and your active participation in the violence done to Men of Color.
If you are a white woman, you need to analyze your complacency and your active participation in the violence done to Men of Color.
8 Reasons Why I Don’t Want To Hear About Your Fad Diet
I’ve sat with hundreds of clients who are breaking out of the diet/binge trap and developing a healthy relationship with food and their body.
I’ve sat with hundreds of clients who are breaking out of the diet/binge trap and developing a healthy relationship with food and their body.
8 Facts About Race Every White Person Needs To Know To Help Fight Racism
This past school year, I taught a course on black women and prisons at a predominantly white university in central New York.
This past school year, I taught a course on black women and prisons at a predominantly white university in central New York.
These 7 Assumptions About Non-Binary Folks May Be Hindering Your Trans Allyship
So you’ve got the 101 stuff out of the way. Gender and sex are different. There are more than two genders. Non-binary people exist.
So you’ve got the 101 stuff out of the way. Gender and sex are different. There are more than two genders. Non-binary people exist.
If We Divide, We Don’t Conquer: 3 Reasons Why Feminists Need to Talk About Race
Actively tackling issues of race and racism should be a part of our feminist consciousness and our feminist practice.
Actively tackling issues of race and racism should be a part of our feminist consciousness and our feminist practice.
How Blackgirl Natural Hair Is Shamed From Infancy to Adulthood
I mindfully and deliberately use the term Blackgirl because our hair consciousness and subsequent struggles do not begin in womanhood.
I mindfully and deliberately use the term Blackgirl because our hair consciousness and subsequent struggles do not begin in womanhood.
I’m Fat and I Don’t Want To Assimilate Into Diet Culture (And No, I’m Not Sorry)
When I see my fat body now, I remind myself that I know how to starve myself, I know how to exercise for two hours a day, I know how to obsessively count each calorie and each gram of fat.When I see my fat body now, I remind myself that I know how to starve myself, I know how to exercise for two hours a day, I know how to obsessively count each calorie and each gram of fat.
When I see my fat body now, I remind myself that I know how to starve myself, I know how to exercise for two hours a day, I know how to obsessively count each calorie and each gram of fat.
You Know Those Common Objections to ‘They’ Pronouns? Here Are 9 Simple Facts To Shut Them Down
They are also 100% real and legitimate, and people using those pronouns often face even more intense resistance and delegitimization.
They are also 100% real and legitimate, and people using those pronouns often face even more intense resistance and delegitimization.
3 Reasons Why Folks Who Don’t ‘Look’ Non-binary Can Still Be Non-binary
Most of us, non-binary or not, grow up learning that men develop certain features.
Most of us, non-binary or not, grow up learning that men develop certain features.