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Check Yourself Before You Wreck Someplace Else: A Guide to Responsible Summer Travel
Too often, tourists engage in gross practices and act a mess. Here’s what to avoid.
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Ready for Takeoff: Mapping the Black Travel Renaissance
Black travel groups are making travel more accessible and affordable.
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Mastering Life: How BDSM Is Teaching Women to Become More Assertive
The negotiation skills that you learn through BDSM will carry over into your everyday because relationships, whether romantic or professional, always require communication to be successful.
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Popaganda: Raising Feminist Kids
This episode features guidance on talking to kids about all kinds of complicated issues. Writer and photographer Margaret Jacobsen explains how they speak frankly with their kids about pretty much everything, including their open... Read more »
Canfei to Canji: The Freedom of Being Loud
The erasure of disabled people is one of the most common international crimes against humanity.
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Popaganda: Queering Family Values
“Family values” has been co-opted by right-wing folks. But what the hell! Feminists have strong values, and we have strong families, too. On today’s episode, we’re queering family values. For a lot of queer folks, the traditional concept of family is wrought with complicated feelings—a lot of blood... Read more »
Parent Trap: Why Mother’s and Father’s Day Still Aren’t Playing Their Cards Right
Mother’s and Father’s Day continue to do the cultural work of reinforcing popular notions of gendered parenting.
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Bumped Off: What Will It Take to Destigmatize Teen Motherhood?
Young moms from less privileged backgrounds, as well as teen moms of color like me, are still waiting for positive reflections of ourselves on TV.
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Mothers of Contention: For Female Authors, Parenthood and Legitimacy Are Still Linked
There’s a distinction between asking someone to understand that your experience is different from hers and asking her to accept that your experience is better.
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What 17th Century Witch Burnings Teach Us About Evangelical Extremism
The descendants of those brought up amid the height of the witch-burning craze who became among the first to colonize settlements like Salem, Massachusetts, continuing the misogynistic and prejudiced witch trials in the United States.
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