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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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Fourth Wave

·Nov 25

Competition Between Women Hides Stressful Gender Role Expectations

Watching my Housemate Impersonate Herself in Real Time — About a month ago, my housemate came home with plastic nails the length of her pinky finger. I thought that was awfully strange. My housemate is a Master’s student in an Art program. On her off hours, she works for a construction company. …

Women

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Competition Between Women Hides Stressful Gender Role Expectations
Competition Between Women Hides Stressful Gender Role Expectations
Women

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Fourth Wave

·Nov 24

Why Tinder Banned Me

Dating apps are useful, they’re just sexist AF — The lonely Frenchman tried to choke me. True, he did not protest after I moved his hands. From my neck. I had to move his hands away from my neck. My neck, where he put his hands. While we were kissing. He put his hands around my neck without asking…

Tinder

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Why Tinder Banned Me
Why Tinder Banned Me
Tinder

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Change Becomes You

·Nov 16

How Men Talk Themselves Out of Having Sex

All the men I’ve talked to on Tinder who are not getting laid anytime soon give a similar story. — It’s always the same story. Things are going well. The conversation is fun, flirtatious, and a mutual turn-on. We have discussed plans to hook up. Maybe I’m over at his house. Then it happens. His hand goes to my throat and stays there. I move it immediately, but for me…

Sex

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How Men Talk Themselves Out of Having Sex
How Men Talk Themselves Out of Having Sex
Sex

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An Injustice!

·Nov 16

Feminism in an Age of Colonialist War

I’m Jewish — Ask Me what I think about Israel and Palestine — I dare you — When I was a child, I learned that Israel was made to be mine. Then, I grew up. I met a Lebanese girl and we became friends. There was a novel from the perspective of a Palestinian girl displaced from her homeland by Israeli settlements. There was the War on…

Israel

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Feminism in an Age of Colonialist War
Feminism in an Age of Colonialist War
Israel

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The Shadow

·Nov 14

How Sports Coaches Taught Me I Deserve Abuse

Abuse of Horse and Rider is still the Social Norm in Most Stables — My trainer said, “It’s all your fault.” So did the next one. And the one after that. And the one after that. Eventually, I started to believe. How could I not? They were the experts. The professionals. The ones whose job it was to tell me what I was doing…

Horses

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How Sports Coaches Taught Me I Deserve Abuse
How Sports Coaches Taught Me I Deserve Abuse
Horses

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