Mental Health
Disability is Not a Deficit and Other Truths in an Ableist World: A Review of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
What would our lives, movements, and communities look like if we moved towards restoration, not cure?
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Paying Homage to the Queen of Teen Mean, Daria Morgendorffer: 20 Years Later, The Sarcasm Still Delights
Daria works against the idea of women as caregivers, or as primarily responsible for tending to others emotions and swaps it out with juvenile humor.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy: A Day in the Life
Oh Joy Sex Toy is a weekly NSFW comics series that graphically explores sex and sexuality. This week: Erika Moen gets personal with her entry for Hourly Comics Day.
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Viola Davis and the Afro as Resistance
This is why we applaud Viola, because she publicly oscillates between afro and wig, which invalidates the idea that only a certain “type” of woman wears weave and that only a woman who burns incense wears an afro.
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Conquering Fear and Loathing in Trump’s America
Every day seems to bring a new blow to democracy or another threat to people like me.
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Going Green: Writer Mariko Tamaki Takes the Hulk Franchise into Uncharted Territory
Not only is a woman now taking center stage as Hulk, stepping into a role that has always been a symbol of superheroic masculinity, her trauma and internalized anger is at the heart of the story.
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When the Past is Present: Documentary "After Fire" is a Nuanced Portrait of Women Veterans
After Fire is a sensitive and nuanced portrait of women’s pain: It does not define its subjects by their pain, but neither does it deny their pain or require them to qualify, perform, or justify that pain.
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Donald Trump Is Deplorable, Racist, and Islamophobic: But Please Don't Call Him "Crazy"
By labeling Trump’s behaviors as “mental illness,” people aren’t just engaging in casual hyperbole, they’re repeating terms they hear used as epithets. And that hurts, for people who deal with mental illness.
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The Subversive Show With the Terrible Name: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Satirizes Sexist Tropes with Song and Dance
By traditional television standards, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend should not work.
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G.L.O.S.S. and the Unbearable Weightiness of Success
Days after announcing their choice to turn down a lucrative record deal, queer-centric Olympia punk band G.L.O.S.S has annoucned their breakup.
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