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My Vagina Forced Me to Give up Nonmonogamy
I loved having multiple loves, but I hated being at the mercy of a stubborn vagina.
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Popaganda: The Feminist Guide to Escaping Diet Culture
Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season makes its debut this week—with an anti-weight-loss infomercial for the ages.
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Memorializing Survival: Piercing the Chronic Pain Away
Our tolerance for pain allows us to turn life’s horrors into something beautiful.
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STI Stigma in Progress: How Jameela Jamil Failed Feminists with HPV
The “feminist-in-progress we all need” is no stranger to criticism.
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Blue Humor: “That’s Mental” Is a Hilarious Meditation on Life with—and Stigma against—Bipolar Disorder
Comedian Amanda Rosenberg is doing something extremely important: disrupting the stigma that keeps so many people silent about their pain.
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Tenuous Embodiment: In Queer Communities, Disordered Eating Has Complex Roots
Achieving a state of “body positivity” in a body that experiences dysphoria is not the most helpful goal to aim for.
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Skin Deep: The Racial Politics of Sunscreen
Sunscreen, its marketing, and its physical makeup is just another way that white people are prioritized in the outdoors industry.
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30 Years Ago, “The Golden Girls” Treated Sick Women like We Matter
Three decades later, “Sick and Tired” remains a cultural touchstone for people with chronic illnesses.
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Survival Jean: “If You Look Good, You Feel Good” Is More Than a Mantra for the Chronically Ill
When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness, everything in your life becomes incidental.
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