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You Can’t Be an Ink Master If You Only Tattoo White Skin
A tattoo artist isn’t a master of the art if they can only tattoo white people.
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A Pleasure to Burn: One Family’s Hot-Sauce Heirloom
In my family, harming yourself is unholy, unless that harm is eyes watering from tasting hot sauce.
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Nude Awakening: Can the Nudist Movement Get Its Groove Back?
There’s a lot more to the nudist/naturist lifestyle than can be summed up with cute cracks about tan lines and adipose folds.
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Two Moms Share Stories of Migration and Breastfeeding
What is it like to breastfeed while in immigrant detention?
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Twist of Faith: Q&A With “God Land” Author Lyz Lenz
“Cultural Christianity’s power as moral currency is something society still uses to define who’s good and who’s bad. For women, for people of color especially, how you look, how you dress, how you act shapes how we interpret who’s in and who’s out.”
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Nest Eggs: The Booming Baby-Shower Industry Empowers Anti-Choicers
Baby showers and gender-reveal parties reinforce a dangerous narrative perpetuated by anti-choice groups.
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We’re Here, We’re Beer, Get Used to It: Brewing up a Tasty New Paradigm for Female Beer Enthusiasts
Why has a libation with such a female-centric origin story become coded, over time, as the near-exclusive reserve of men?
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Cabin Fever: The New Luxury of Adult Summer Camp
Scroll through the websites of most of the adult summer camps and look at the founders, counselors, and instructors. You’ll rarely see a Black person or person of color.
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From Butt Masks to Glass Dildos: The Commercialization of Self-Care and Wellness
If your brand claims to value mental health and wellness, then it should go beyond lip service.
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Cake Is Never Just Cake: The Fraught Politics of Fatness, Desire, and Eating Your Feelings
Within the framework of capitalist systems, eating “right” has been tied to financial and social privilege in a way that further marginalizes people who are already struggling.
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