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An Injustice!

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The Whale’s Fat Politics

Trauma is Not a Spectacle To Teach Sympathy — Newsweek quotes director Darren Aronofsky as saying, “the film is about bringing empathy to characters that you don’t expect to feel for.” Therein lies the problem. Aronofsky created this film under the assumption that feeling empathy for fat people is not something that comes easily to “you.” You, the viewer…

The Whale

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The Whale’s Fat Politics
The Whale’s Fat Politics
The Whale

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An Injustice!

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Meghan Markle and the Choice To Pass

White supremacists target woc who love white men — Meghan Markle said in episode 2 of her Archetypes podcast, reports Entertainment Tonight, that she until she began dating Harry, she felt she was treated as a mixed-race woman. When she stepped out with Harry, however, the hatred emerged, and she felt targeted and ID’d as Black. It’s a vulnerable…

Meghan Markle

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Meghan Markle and the Choice To Pass
Meghan Markle and the Choice To Pass
Meghan Markle

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Fourth Wave

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Shonda Rimes and My Mother

The Angry Women of Color in My Life — My mother is the darkest-skinned member of my extended family. She refuses to leave the house without curling her hair into waves more palatable for the white-washed suburbs in which I was raised. …

Ancestral Trauma

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Shonda Rimes and My Mother
Shonda Rimes and My Mother
Ancestral Trauma

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Fourth Wave

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How Do You Know It’s Sexual Assault?

Miscommunication. Misunderstanding. All Misnomers for the same damn thing. — A man pulls me to the floor. I let him. I am drunk. I have not eaten more than two granola bars in two days. We are in a well-lit area, the floor of a hotel crowded with twentysomethings, Birthright participants like us. …

Feminism

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How Do You Know It’s Sexual Assault?
How Do You Know It’s Sexual Assault?
Feminism

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Fourth Wave

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My Real Life Promising Young Woman

Rape killed the best woman I’ve ever known, so no. I’m still not over it. — My friend killed herself, and for the longest time I thought it was my fault. That night, she was drinking. D was always drinking, by then. She drank during the day. She drank all night long. She drank and sometimes she popped pills, but why would I worry about that…

Feminism

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My Real Life Promising Young Woman
My Real Life Promising Young Woman
Feminism

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Fanfare

·Sep 3

The Matrix: Resurrections on True Love

Why We Need Stories About Strangers to Understand Ourselves — When Trinity steps onscreen, she looks what few Hollywood actresses have ever been allowed to be — old. She is mom to children who seem to have drained her of all life. Her smile is forced and brittle. Her skin looks chalky and painted on in the artificial colors of…

Matrix

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The Matrix: Resurrections on True Love
The Matrix: Resurrections on True Love
Matrix

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Fourth Wave

·Sep 2

My Father Sexually Harasses Me

Nobody tells you how to protect yourself against your parents — Growing up has not fixed all the things I thought it would. Trying not to get hit by crazy drivers on the freeway, trying not to catch Covid from the millions of people who ignore its existence, all take up so much of my time. Then there’s my dad. With…

Abuse

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My Father Sexually Harasses Me
My Father Sexually Harasses Me
Abuse

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Change Becomes You

·Aug 17

My Grandfather Was a Hero to Everyone But Me

My grandfather saved another family’s kid, but he scapegoated me. — I thought it was just a game. I had never seen someone dying before. He was eight years old. I was nine. He was in the pool in my parents’ backyard. His parents were watching him die. They were doing nothing. I was a few feet away. I was probably…

Patriarchy

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My Grandfather Was a Hero to Everyone But Me
My Grandfather Was a Hero to Everyone But Me
Patriarchy

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Change Becomes You

·Aug 13

The Emotional Affair I Wish I’d Had

How celibacy can become a trauma response. — We never had sex. Does it matter? Would it matter to me, if I was his wife? A year and a half ago, we were on the phone, talking about what we liked to do in bed. I can’t remember how we got on that subject. I never remembered how…

Sexuality

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The Emotional Affair I Wish I’d Had
The Emotional Affair I Wish I’d Had
Sexuality

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Fourth Wave

·Aug 9

Why Isn’t Lizzo The Hero We Thought She Was?

Being Everyone Else’s Hero Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be — Someone recently asked me how it’s possible that Lizzo, famous for her heroism in fighting for body positivity and women’s rights, could have done the things she has been accused of. Here is my answer. When you find the strength inside yourself to fight some major social ill that everyone…

Lizzo

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Why Isn’t Lizzo The Hero We Thought She Was?
Why Isn’t Lizzo The Hero We Thought She Was?
Lizzo

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