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Being a Second Lover Means Loving Yourself First
With a lot of honesty, being a second lover can come with freedom, discovery, and lessons in self-love.
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Ask for More Pillows: Size, Sex, and Chemistry
Your pleasure is the great gift in your body, and you have the right to feel it for as long as you can handle it.
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Women and Girls
An emphasis on youth, beauty, and looking good is not a new trend in American culture—especially for women and girls.
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The Beat Got Thiccer: “Feminasty” Taunts and Flaunts Self Love
Miss Eaves sneezed on the beat and the beat got thiccer.
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The Pleasure Dome: Nipples are Magic
The general behaviors I witnessed were to ignore and disrespect the power of my nipples
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“To The Bone” Relies On An Old AF Male Savior Narrative
There’s nothing new about the wise male savior rescuing the troubled girl.
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Better, Fitter, Feminist: Can the Optimized Body be Intersectional Too?
Can intersectional feminism’s task of honoring differences be supported by the medical and biological need for norms?
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Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Will Satiate You: On Fat, Trauma, and the World of Longing
Roxane Gay’s newest work, Hunger, a memoir of her body, is told in her signature style: boldly vulnerable.
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Some of Us Are Brave: Killing the Mammy Myth: SheaMoisture Needs a Reminder that Black Women Built Its Success
The Mammy myth that casts Black women as faithful servants is about four centuries past its expiration date. Too many Black women have already starved our needs and desires trying to serve people, organizations, communities and businesses who will not serve us.
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