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“Coco” Proves Cultural Appreciation is Possible
I set out to the theater on Thanksgiving Day expecting to hate Disney-Pixar’s Coco. I was delightfully surprised.
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Forced Exile: How Queer Families Navigate Holidays
Outsider status makes going home especially anxiety-inducing for queer people.
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Love and Restrictions: Food, Family, and Anorexia
For most of us with disordered eating, holidays with our families can be excruciating.
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Pistols or Pearls: Gender Reveal Parties Are a Sham
Gender-reveal parties reinforce a faux binary.
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Popaganda: Growing Up Immigrant
When politicians and pundits talk about immigrants, they far too often use language that makes it seem like immigrants are… other. Not real Americans. Not able to be trusted. Their histories, experiences, and native languages, those should be pushed aside in favor of the “melting pot” of English.... Read more »
9 Movies That Put Trump’s Wall To Shame
We’re not going to forget our history, and we’re not going to let other people forget it either.
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Beyond Binaries and Convention: Kay Ulanday Barrett on Ancestry, Disability, and Identity Formation
I am not interested in having white Americans take my family’s tongue and practices for some poetic getaway.
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Can You See Me Now?: The Fragility of Maternal Transition
The pregnant woman is rarely asked what it is she needs, or how she really feels.
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Baby Fever : “The Art of Waiting” Captures the Pain of Infertility
Belle Boggs handles infertility through a nuanced and empathetic lens that’s attuned to issues of social justice.
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The Fragility of Silence: Unlearning Childhood Secrecy and Breaking the Chains in Adult Life
Sometimes silence is broken and exposed as the most fragile of things when someone steps forward with enough courage to end it.
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