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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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Published in 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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Published in 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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Published in 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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Published in 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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Published in Invisible Illness

·3 days ago

An Open Letter to People Who Write About Borderline Personality Disorder

You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about, so stop talking — I’ve read roughly twenty of the exact same article in the last several months. “How to recognize Borderline Personality Disorder!” “Why Borderlines and Narcissists fall for each other!” It’s getting old. Every psychologist on here wants to get attention. The latest play for our eyeballs and our money comes from…

Borderline Personality

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An Open Letter to People Who Write About Borderline Personality Disorder
An Open Letter to People Who Write About Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality

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Published in Fourth Wave

·4 days ago

Hollywood Women Can’t Speak

Why is it So Hard to Get Angry on the Record? — Sarah Michelle Gellar thinks the Buffy the Vampire Slayer set was “toxic,” according to her January 18 The Today Show interview. She just doesn’t want to talk about it, because doing so would just do more damage — to whom? She’s totes supportive of her former costars in what they…

Women

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Hollywood Women Can’t Speak
Hollywood Women Can’t Speak
Women

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Published in The Virago

·5 days ago

Men Who Hate Women Who Say No

The men in our lives who can’t accept when we draw the line — The man who works at the front desk of the building where I live has locked me out of my rental account. …

Women

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Men Who Hate Women Who Say No
Men Who Hate Women Who Say No
Women

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Published in An Injustice!

·Jan 13

The Life of the “Tragic Mulatta”

Why this Racist trope needs to die a thousand deaths — When I was seven years old, my mother turned to me and asked, “Are you suicidal?” I had to ask her what that word meant. I was too young to know. As she explained, I began to understand. My mother was asking me if I wanted to die. I thought…

Racism

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The Life of the “Tragic Mulatta”
The Life of the “Tragic Mulatta”
Racism

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Published in The Virago

·Jan 9

Who is Responsible for My Trauma?

Decades later, who pays the price once harm has been done — I had a difficult conversation with my high school a few months ago. I met with the current counselor and several administrators to talk about some of the forms of violence I suffered there. During that meeting, I recalled several events that had stood out to me even at the…

Trauma

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Who is Responsible for My Trauma?
Who is Responsible for My Trauma?
Trauma

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