Country radio is often characterized as a timid artistic wasteland, and not without reason. But country’s increasing connection to pop has perhaps given it a bit more flexibility in regards to gender and sexuality than it once did.
I’m Transgender and I Need Body Positivity, Too
On my worst days? I can’t leave my apartment. I ugly cry like there’s no tomorrow. And there’s a crushing weight on my chest, making it difficult to breathe, let alone function like the adult I’m supposed to be.
5 Ways to Support a Loved One Struggling With Addiction
Be skeptical, be unafraid, and take care of yourself. Some of the advice Britni de la Cretaz has on how to help a loved one battling addiction.
10 Reasons Being Married to My Husband Totally Rocks
4. He keeps us organized. I’m a total slob. I’m a messy mess. I don’t have the neat gene.
Lenny Kravitz’s Pants Split Open and Women Everywhere Were Terrible About It
Joanna Schroeder thinks that if you advocate for enthusiastic consent, you have no right to look at Lenny Kravitz’s non-consensual crotch-shots.
I’m a Black Woman and I Don’t Want a Black Son
This may sound morbid. I fully understand and accept that this is not every woman’s reality, but it is my reality. It is the reality that I am reminded of when I watch news coverage of yet another rally to protest yet another killing of another black man.r
12 Things You Should Never Say to Someone With Depression
Those who know and love people with depression usually want nothing other than to help. But during the times I’ve been depressed, even the most well-intentioned efforts to help often backfired.
Egalitarian Marriage, When Spouses Are Equal
Here are just three of the major practical applications in Jessica Martin-Weber’s egalitarian marriage.
Domestic Violence: Not Just a Female Issue
The fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.
7 Things to Remember During Eating Disorder Recovery
Don’t pressure yourself to love your body unconditionally; it’s possible that that will come in time. Instead, focus on shifting your negative thoughts to neutral ones: Your body exists. It carries you around. It is neither good nor bad. It is a body.
Remembering Stephen: Love, Loss, and AIDS
He underwent a smorgasbord of tests as the family anxiously awaited the answer. But we knew. The innocents in the old snapshot all knew instinctively, even before the test results came in. Stephen had AIDS.
One of the Many Things the Media Has Wrong About the Black Community
Absent in the media narrative about race is the existing community of adult black individuals currently engaged and interested in civil dialogue.
Boys With Toys: The Civil War on Gun Control and Terrorism
To be an average gun owner, to me, is to harbor an unhealthy amount of suspicion that has much in common with the unhealthy suspicions that fuel domestic terrorists and confused youngsters stoked by Confederate historians, racist talk show hosts, televangelists. . .
Dear Son, I Used To Be a Porn Writer. Love, Mom
Before I was a mom, I was an X-rated writer. And I was actually pretty good at it.
Performing Black Masculinity: Reflections on a Jewish Boy’s Youth
Our perceptions of black masculinity are based on myths white men created to dehumanize black men. But we are captive to these myths inasmuch as we desire to make this imagined black masculinity our own.
How I’m Raising My Sons To Be Feminist
Nothing can really prepare you for being a parent. And there is no damn way anything can prepare you for being a step-parent.