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Ask Auntie Randa: on sex writing, Palestinian roots, and skin privilege
Auntie Randa’s advice on writing about sex, embracing Palestinian roots, and skin privilege.
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I Got All My Sisters With Me: How TV is Diversifying Family Structures
Extended families are their own miniature communities where members can find support.
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You Are Not Alone: How Trans People Survive the Holidays
Families, in the traditional sense, are largely a cis thing.
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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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