The Sick Issue
(Un)safe Refuge: The Built-In Ableism in Queer Spaces
There’s still a huge chunk of the population who have trouble accessing Pride events and LGBTQ safe spaces: disabled queer people.
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A Wrinkle in White Supremacy: Even Time Travel Can’t Stop Police Brutality
Time lines merge into an inescapable eternity; there’s no reprieve from injustice.
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Continental Grift: Wellness and the Western Consumption of India
A cultural obsession with Indian-centered wellness also comes from a place that acknowledges that everyone, sick or not, is in some way fundamentally broken.
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Come as You Are: Orgasms Prioritize Pleasure in the Midst of Pain
Orgasms can be restorative for pelvic-pain patients because orgasming helps them experience a “healing trust” that reconnects them with their need for sexual pleasure and intimacy.
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Intimate Access: Danez Smith on Poetry as Purpose, Thriving with HIV, and Blackness as Home
Blackness is everything to me.
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Traci Medeiros-Bagan Wants to Uncouple Sickness from Otherness
Your therapist isn’t necessarily going to know more about you than you know about yourself. You’re the expert about yourself.
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Truth Hurts: Fat, Black, and Too Good to Cancel
In every industry Black women have to work four times as hard for less than half the credit.
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Good Grief: Why Does Mourning Have an Expiration Date?
The raw reality of a grief that cannot be muffled after some quiet crying in the bathtub is disruptive to a world where discussions of mourning often include the phrase “moving on.”
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Trial by Firing: Are Unions the Cure for Post Traumatic Press Disorder?
The vulture capitalists currently doing their damndest to gut and consolidate the media cannot be trusted.
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A $2 Lifeline: Astrology Apps Give a New Meaning to Universal Healthcare
The planets and stars function as a lifeline for many of those who can’t access traditional healthcare.
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